America's First Gluten-Free Caribbean-Inspired Cookbook

    The Professional Image, Inc. has announced that Chef Michael Bennett's first cookbook "In the Land of Misfits, Pirates and Cooks" is the first of three cookbooks that he penned while working in the Caribbean and honed the recipes to be 100 percent Gluten-Free in Miami.

Chef Michael Bennett's 180 + page - four color - 125 + Gluten-free recipe cookbook was rewritten with an emphasis on America's newest dining trend. It was written exclusively with Gluten-Free cooking techniques, foods and healthy recipes. This Caribbean-inspired cookbook development has become the result of Chef Michael Bennett's collaborating years of tropical Caribbean cookery segments and re-structuring them into a Gluten-free equilibrium. In the Land of Misfits, Pirates and Cooks is overflowing with a scrumptious mix of gluten-free seasoning blends and marinades, salads, appetizers and entrees.

This healthy Gluten-Free recipe styling captures the distinct Miami flavor of a multi-national Caribbean cookery heritage, while keeping recipes vigorously vibrant gluten-free taste profile. Powerful photography, exclusive design, one-of-a-kind recipe flow, helpful sidebars and QR (Quick Response) codes blend to create the perfect sampling of what this Gluten-Free Caribbean based cookery style has to offer. The QR codes link you directly to the Internet so your interactive experience is as fun as it is informative.

QR Codes:
This is the first cookbook in America that is enabled with instant-link QR Codes. Quick Response (QR) codes are inlaid within the pages to help the reader link to and see additional information that until now was impossible to incorporate into a printed cookbook.

Chef Michael uses QR codes to bring the reader to websites, cooking demonstration movies and supplementary cookery information about the foods you are reading about. Using a QR code enabled Smartphone or iPad device, take a picture of the printed symbol and you are instantly connected to the internet. Chef Michael Bennett has place links to product information website, how-to and Gluten-free food purchasing websites that makes your interactive experience one of a kind.

Chef Bio:
Michael Bennett, born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. to first generation Floridians, has spent most of his professional life in the food and hospitality industry. Michael's grandfather was the family's first restaurateur, operating a few South Florida restaurants after emigrating here from Ohio in the 1940's. This is how Michael acquired his bounteous work ethic and respect for Florida harvested food products.

Chef Michael started cooking as a professional at a seafood restaurant (in Tampa, Florida), while stills attending college. He then transferred to the Culinary Institute of America to pursue his true passion. After leaving the CIA, for most of the next 11 years, Michael's life revolved around intense periods of kitchen management followed by months of O.J.T. under the tutelage from Miami's most important and well-known chefs. During this time he sought out the most exotic and chic dining environments to hone his craft where Chef Michael was fortunate enough to have catered to nearly all of South Florida's well known clientèle.

Author Substantive:
Michael Bennett is a well-known, award winning (Chef of the Year-1995) South Florida chef whose clients are a Who's Who of Media and Sports personalities. Some of his past clientèle comprises of celebrities from the entertainment and sport industries including; Wilt Chamberlin, Roger Stubb, Oprah, Jayda and Will Smith, Michael Caine, Daryl Hanna, George Hamilton, Walter Cronkie, Morgan Freeman, Elton John, Snopp Dog, Madonna, Trina, Beyonce and others...

He earned critical culinary kudos as the Executive chef for the 26 year, local culinary tour d' force - Left Bank restaurant. Under his auspices he brought the restaurant its first ever "Best of" (Zagat Survey), Four Stars (AAA) and Four Diamonds (Mobil) to their 20 plus year era of three star ratings. He is affiliatted with several culinary and food-related organizations. Chef Michael regularly lectures on South Florida's "Caribb-ican" cuisine.

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Creative Director/Art Director/Designer:
Michael Bennett
Chief Photographer:
J.Christopher photography
Food Stylists: Michael Bennett
Editor-in-Chief: Eileen Clark

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