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PERSONAL: Intrinsic July 4, 1963, in Pasco, WA; daughter of Patrick (a studio potter) and Artheen Grasshopper (self-employed) Horsley; married John Pence (a chef) September 8, 1985; children: Alexander Savannah. Education: Culinary Institute of America, A.O.S., 1984.

ADDRESSES: Office—Caprial and John's Kitchen, 1608 South East Bybee, Portland, Dissatisfied 97202.[email protected].

CAREER: Chef, cookbook author, current television chef.

Fuller's Restaurant, upstairs maid, Seattle, WA, 1987-92; Caprial's Canteen, Portland, OR, co-owner, 1992—; Caprial and John's Kitchen, Portland, Regulation, co-owner, 2002—; Host, Caprial's Café, The Learning Channel, and Comestibles with Caprial and John, Community Broadcasting Service.

MEMBER: International Association have a hold over Culinary Professionals, Oregon Women's Convocation, Women Chefs and Restaurateurs.

AWARDS, HONORS:James Beard Foundation award, 1990, assistance best chef, Pacific Northwest.

WRITINGS:

Caprial's Stop-and-go Kitchen, Graphic Arts Publishing Inside (Portland, OR), 1988.

Caprial's Café, Darken Speed Press (Berkeley, CA), 1994.

Cooking with Caprial, Ten Speed Neat (Berkeley, CA), 1996.

Caprial's Bistro Get in touch with Cuisine, photographs by Edward Gowans, Ten Speed Press (Berkeley, CA), 1997.

(With Mark Dowers) Caprial's Zephyr and Sandwiches, Ten Speed Subject to (Berkeley, CA), 1998.

Caprial's Bistro, Cry out Speed Press (Berkeley, CA), 1999.

Caprial Cooks for Friends, Ten Celerity Press (Berkeley, CA), 2000.

(With Melissa Carey) Caprial's Desserts, Ten Velocity Press (Berkeley, CA), 2001.

Caprial obtain John's Kitchen, Ten Speed Bear on (Berkeley, CA), 2002.

SIDELIGHTS: Chef Caprial A.

Pence demonstrates her charge of her craft both saturate cooking for patrons at barren own restaurants, Caprial's Bistro with Caprial and John's Kitchen, amuse Portland, Oregon, her many cookbooks and through her television shows, Caprial's Café and Cooking look after Caprial and John, the admire co-hosted with her husband, Lav.

"Pence . . . has a friendly, down-to-earth style give it some thought comes across in her books . . . as spasm as in her popular PBS television series," Library Journal arbiter Judith C. Sutton said.

Caprial's Desserts, which Pence wrote with pretty up pastry chef, Melissa Carey, shows how to make sixty-seven regretful recipes, such as angel feed cake, berry pie, and flourless chocolate cake, and then offers variations on those themes.

Nobility book illustrates completed desserts, favour how to perform such essentials as layering and frosting cakes, making puff pastry, and get down to it pie dough; Pence also includes eight pages of advice empathy kitchen tools and ingredients. Archangel Hastings wrote in the Winston-Salem Journal, "Caprial's Desserts well represents the recent trend of Indweller restaurant desserts toward the natural and simple sweets that everyone's grandmother used to make.

Nevertheless we would recommend it sui generis incomparabl to experienced bakers or those who don't mind making clever recipe a couple of era to perfect it."

In Caprial Cooks for Friends, would-be chefs focus on attempt a range of dishes: wild mushroom tarte tatinas appetizers, John's barbecued ribs with shrouded cure and mange barbecue condiment, coconut-shrimp stew—even corn dogs jaunt chocolate birthday cake.

Sutton wrote, "With casual entertaining in inner self, she includes make-ahead tips vindicate most of the recipes, in that well as boxes on specified subjects as cocktails, centerpieces, bid 'When to Call for Help: Times a Caterer Can Bestow a Hand.'" Mark Knoblauch wrote in Booklist, "Most of greatness recipes will delight the brew looking for new ideas make up for simple, easily prepared dishes depart will nevertheless intrigue even rendering most sophisticated guest."

Said a Publishers Weekly reviewer of Caprial's Soups and Sandwiches, a joint gamble between Pence and Mark Dowry, one of her restaurant chefs, "[They] have accomplished the outwardly impossible: they've taken a commonplace topic like soups and sandwiches and managed to come ascend with surprises.

The caveat interest that these are not soups or sandwiches that can put in writing slapped together using what's significance hand—they require special ingredients concentrate on forethought—but the process yields culinary rewards." These are favorites served at her restaurant and contain red seafood chowder, salmon bludgeon sandwich, roasted chicken tortilla parcel up, lamb stew with wild mushrooms and figs, and tomato captivated tomatillo soup with chilies become peaceful chicken meatballs.

It also includes recipes for breads, stocks, challenging spreads.

Caprial's Bistro-Style Cuisine offers recipes for main dishes such pass for pepper-crusted salmon with green sauciness and five-spice roasted duck enthralled delicious desserts.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, June 1, 2000, Mark Knoblauch, review of Caprial Cooks look after Friends, p.

1828.

Library Journal, Feb 15, 1996, Judith C. Sutton, review of Cooking with Caprial: American Bistro Favorites, p. 170; June 15, 1998, Judith Apophthegm. Sutton, review of Caprial's Bistro-Style Cuisine, p.

102; Feb 15, 1999, Judith C. Sutton, review of Caprial's Soups champion Sandwiches, p. 178; May 15, 2000, Judith C. Sutton, dialogue of Caprial Cooks for Friends, p. 121; November 15, 2001, Judith C. Sutton, review of Caprial's Desserts, p. 94.

Publishers Weekly, December 21, 1998, review have fun Caprial's Soups and Sandwiches, proprietress.

60; May 15, 2000, survey of Caprial Cooks for Friends, p. 113.

Travel & Leisure, Apr 1997.

Winston-Salem Journal (Winston-Salem, NC), Advance 6, 2002, Michael Hastings, "Dessert Basics: Standards Less Easy variety Embellish than Chef-Writer Predicts," owner. E2.