"Plated Dishes: The Fine Art of Food," traces the creative process behind Keith Emerling's recipes, cooking, plating of food, food photography, and paintings of food. The book features stunningly reproduced images of plated dishes, both as photographs and oil paintings with a smattering of watercolors. Plated dishes is a term used to describe a meal beautifully arranged and served on an individual plate to a prospective diner. 20 recipes are presented along with photographs to encourage the reader to try some of these elegant dishes on their own. Encompassed in its 162 pages, the book beautifully reproduces 37 paintings and 35 photographs with written text encouraging creativity and personal expression.