Follow your nose to the Stinking Rose, where you'll find hearty, California-Italian fare for the garlic worshipper in us all. Recipes like Garlic-Encrusted Baby Back Ribs, Savory Garlic Noodles, and even (brace yourself) Garlic Ice Cream will please die-hard garlic enthusiasts as well as those who prefer just a graceful hint of the bulb. Living up to the restaurant's motto, "We season our garlic with food," this unique cookbook will fill every kitchen with the tantalizing aroma of "the stinking rose."A pungent collection of the most popular dishes from the Stinking Rose, the garlic lover's mecca based in San Francisco and Beverly Hills.Includes 65 recipes plus 45 gorgeous photos of the food and the restaurants' whimsical d?cor.The original Stinking Rose, in San Francisco's Italian neighborhood, North Beach, has become famous for serving more than 3,000 pounds of garlic each month.

JENNIFER JEFFREY is a food writer who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Andrea Froncillo joined the Stinking Rose Restaurant as executive chef in 1996 and subsequently oversaw the opening of the parent restaurant group’s four other Bay Area restaurants: the Crab House at Pier 39, Dead Fish, Boboquivari’s, and the Franciscan Crab Restaurant. He lives in San Francisco on the famous “Crookedest Street in America.”