The Grove Restaurant in San Francisco is a popular fixture amongst Bay Area foodies. Chef Jeffrey Saad is behind the restaurant and a new cookbook, "Global Kitchen: Recipes Without Borders." Saad is also the star of "United Tastes of America," a show on the Cooking Channel.  On that show, he is known for exploring the history of popular American foods as well as looking at the various interpretations different chefs have taken to classic food such as pizza, meatballs and donuts. Saad also owns the San Francisco chain, "Sweet Heat Mexican."

Saad is a self-professed food fanatic who says that his greatest culinary influences have come from his Lebanese mother and all the different places he's traveled to in his life.

With his new cookbook, he takes his readers to different regions of the world. The book is an international tour and celebration of food around the world. The itinerary includes food hotspots such as Italy, Spain, France, India, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Some of the recipes featured in the book include lobster pot pie, five-spice shrimp sliders, turmeric-griled scallop pitas and Nutella crepes.

Saad spoke to Reuters about his book and his inspiration for the book saying, "When I was growing up, my grandmother would make these very traditional Lebanese foods. When we went to her home, I felt like we were leaving the country. Looking back as a kid, that was my first real global experience. I would be having chick peas, grape leaves and the magic of rosewater in the baklava with the phyllo dough and ground nuts. It was so authentic."

The cookbook also dedicates a chapter to eggs because as Saad puts it, When you have a dozen eggs in the fridge, you are guaranteed a meal. I have (not) yet met a spice, an herb, a protein, a flavour that doesn't taste great with eggs. They are super versatile and inexpensive.  He calls a carton of eggs his "12 little sous chefs."