Family Table: Favorite Staff Meals from Our Restaurants to Your Home

From the award-winning Union Square Hospitality Group, some of the best food never seen on a menu. With a foreword by Danny Meyer Every night, just before the lunch and dinner services, the entire staff of Danny Meyer's Union Square Hospitality Group's award-winning restaurants sits down to eat "family meal." The food is simple enough to be prepared on the run but special enough to please the city's best cooks.

Now for the first time, culinary director Michael Romano selects his favorites in "Family Table." These recipes translate perfectly for the home cook: they are easy, full of flavor, and come from all cuisines. Standouts include Pushcart Chicken, Grilled Halibut with Cherry Tomatoes, Sugar Snap Peas and Lemon, Slow-Cooked Green Beans, Mama Romano's Lasagna, and Plum and Apricot Crisp with Almond Cream. Each recipe has been tested and refined by Romano, a two-time James Beard Award winner, to ensure success by the home cook. Dozens of sidebars tell lively stories of behind-the-scenes restaurant life.