BESS PRESS PUBLISHES NEW COOKBOOK FEATURING LOCAL RECIPES

Pupus...Plus! by Big Island cooking expert Sachi Fukuda and recently published by Bess Press is a cookbook that combines the practicality of a community cookbook with the design and photography of a gourmet cooking magazine. The recipes, extensively tested and refined by the author have a local flavor and include pupus, salads and vegetables, sushi and rice, Hawaiian favorites, chicken, beef, pork, seafood, tofu and other soy-based meat alternatives, and desserts.

Sachi Fukuda is also the author of Pupus: An Island Tradition ( Bess Press , 1995). She is retired from the Hawai'i Police Department where she was the secretary to the chief of police. She currently gives cooking demonstrations and conducts cooking classes on the Island of Hawai'i .

Bess Press , celebrating 25 years of independent publishing is located in Honolulu , Hawai'i and publishes trade titles about Pacific-related topics in the following categories: children's literature, cookbooks, humor, sports, languages, reference books, and guidebooks.

Review copies and digital images are available from Bess Press: info@besspress.com , (808) 734-7159, ext. 21.

ISBN 1-57306-229-4, 160 pages, $12.95