Now you can cook like a real Tampa Bay’r thanks to the Museum of Fine Arts, Sea Salt and Bern’s Steak House. All three local establishments put out new cookbooks this year, with recipes for everything from sea bean salad to raspberry martinis, pasta al forno to monkfish and corn pudding. Whether you’re into down-home grub or seasonally inspired delicacies, these homegrown cookbooks will appeal to pros as well as the inexperienced.
This article appears in Sep 24-30, 2015.