L.A.'s favorite food-lover's resource is back with a new edition that's bigger, better and more essential than ever. Boasting two new chapters and 56 new pages —while keeping the same low price— this guidebook shares the favorite finds of L.A.'s savviest food journalists. From taco trucks to French bistros, wine shops to caterers, butchers to brew pubs, Thai markets to Chinese dim sum houses, you'll find L.A.'s best food in this acclaimed new book.

ISBN 978-0-9753939-9-4; 376 pages, flexibound, die-cut tabs; retail price $19.95

Celebrating with Julienne - Out of Print

Celebrating with Julienne takes you into the kitchens of one of California's most acclaimed cooks, Susan Campoy, the founder and chef of Julienne, a romantic French-California spot in the pretty Los Angeles suburb of San Marino. Susan shares the best recipes of her career, along with stories, tips, and advice for the budding cook, caterer or restaurateur. Winner Best Nonfiction 2009, Southern California Independent Bookseller Awards.

ISBN 978-0-9753939-8-7; 192 pages, hardcover, four-color photography; retail price $40

Hometown Santa Barbara: The Central Coast Book

Hometown Santa Barbara explores the capital of the Central Coast and her neighbors like no traditional guidebook can. This new sibling of the Hometown bestsellers is like having a dyed-in-the-wool local - five of them, actually - introducing you to the most interesting people in town, telling you the most fascinating stories, and whispering in your ear where to find the best antiques store, oceanview restaurant, surf spot, art gallery, peaceful hiking trail or convivial coffeehouse. From Carpinteria and Montecito to Goleta and Santa Barbara wine country, this witty, richly colorful book unlocks the insider secrets of the Central Coast. With a foreword by Academy Award-winning author Fannie Flagg and cover art by Hank Pitcher.

ISBN 978-0-9753939-5-6; 284 pages, four-color, flexibound; retail price $24.95

Hometown Pasadena 2009.2010: The San Gabriel Valley Book

Two years after it first took the San Gabriel Valley—and all of Southern California—by storm, Hometown Pasadena is back with a thoroughly updated new edition. Hometown Pasadena is a new kind of city book, written by longtime locals who dig deep to reflect the place they find so special. Hometown Pasadena has won acclaim from the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles magazine and Westways, earned nominations and awards from such organizations as the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association and the Independent Publisher Book Awards, and sold like gangbusters.

ISBN 978-0975393949; retail price $24.95

Winner, Gold Medal, best regional book, Independent Publisher Book Awards 2008
Finalist, best nonfiction book, Southern California Independent Booksellers Award

Written by locals for locals, with a foreword by acclaimed crime novelist April Smith, Hometown Santa Monica is the book Santa Monica and her neighbors have been waiting for. Its 256 color-charged pages celebrate the savvy, the friendly, the smart, the fashionable, the beachy, the fun and the historic in Santa Monica, Venice, the Palisades, the Marina, Malibu, Topanga and Brentwood. It’s a friend who tells you about a great restaurant and introduces you to some amazing people. It’s an educated resource showcasing the region’s world-class art, architecture, natural beauty, culture and fun stuff to do. And it’s a great gift.

ISBN 978-0-9753939-2-5; retail price $24.95

Winner, PubWest Book Design Award 2008
Winner, Silver Medal, Independent Publisher Book Awards 2008

At Home Pasadena is the first book to showcase the range and diversity of the San Gabriel Valley’s exceptional homes and gardens. With lush color photographs and evocative text, At Home Pasadena celebrates how Pasadenans live at home—where they cook, eat, sleep, work, play, socialize, garden, grow, learn, collect, retreat, dress, bathe and even save the world. The homes reflect the architectural richness of Pasadena and her design-loving neighbors, including Altadena, South Pasadena, Sierra Madre and San Marino. You’ll step inside much more than the Arts & Crafts bungalows that have brought these communities international fame—there are midcentury moderns both grand and small, kitchen gardens and rose gardens, a clean-lined loft and a rustic rental cottage, a Wallace Neff hacienda and a Madison Heights colonial, a sustainable mini-farm and an historic observatory/home . . . and many, many more. With a foreword by David R. Brown, executive director of Descanso Gardens, former president of Art Center College of Design and owner of an historic Greene & Greene home.

ISBN 978-0-9753939-3-2; retail price $39.95

A Pocket of Paradise: The Story of Beach Road
By Joe Dunn

It's a mile and a half of asphalt. On one side of the road are railroad tracks; on the other are houses crammed onto narrow lots. It may not sound like paradise, but to the residents of and visitors to Beach Road, it is. In A Pocket of Paradise, Joe Dunn tells the story of Capistrano Beach's Beach Road, from the days of Junipero Serra, to the early development by the Doheny family, to the creation of the Hobie Cat sailboat right there on the beach. He introduces the locals, tells the stories, and brings to life the small Southern California beach community that's had a big impact on the country's surf and beach-lifestyle culture.

ISBN; 978-0-9753939-7-0 retail price $30

Just published by Blenheim Press and already a hit, this exciting new cookbook is being distributed by Prospect Park Books. Author Amelia Saltsman celebrates the famed Santa Monica Farmers' Market, provides advice on choosing, storing and using seasonal ingredients, shares tips from chefs and farmers, and gives readers more than 100 simple but fabulous recipes inspired by the market. With a foreword by Deborah Madison, a gorgeous design by Ph.D (including color photos of the market and the farmers), and rave reviews from everyone from Alice Waters to Lynne Rossetto Kasper, this book is the essential companion to farmer's market shoppers across the nation.

ISBN 978-0-9790429-0-4; retail price $22.95.