Gourmet Cooking

The Balthazar Cookbook

When restaurateur Keith McNally and co-chefs Riad Nasr and Lee Hanson opened Balthazar in 1997, it immediately became one of the hottest restaurants in the country. Famous for its star-studded clientele, a beautiful room in the chic SoHo neighborhood, and superbly executed food, Balthazar has been embraced by New Yorkers and visitors alike for …

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Bite By Bite: 100 Stylish Little Plates You Can Make for Any Party

Celebrated caterer Peter Callahan knows how to throw a party. With a career spanning more than two decades and a client list including celebrities, politicians, Fortune 500 companies, and New York City socialites, Peter has earned a reputation for creating hors d’oeuvres that are as inventive and beautiful as they are delicious. A two-sip shot cleverly matched to …

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Joel Robuchon Food and Life (Connoisseur)

An ode to the art of delicious and healthful cuisine, Food & Life is a new wayto understand food: This cookbook may just change your life. Whereas today s fashionable diets create deficiencies and imbalances, and deprive us of part of the joy of living, Food & Life is a celebration of food as an integral part of …

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The Colonial Williamsburg Tavern Cookbook

The Colonial Williamsburg Tavern CookbookEvery year, millions of people visit Colonial Williamsburg’s re-creation of eighteenth-century America for the ambience, the education, and the unparalleled experience of glimpsing our prerevolutionary past. Williamsburg’s fascinating form of time travel encompasses not only the architecture and the artisans, but all the details of our rich cultural heritage, including the food. And The …

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The Inn at Little Washington Cookbook: A Consuming Passion

This cookbook is the distillation of a life’s work by a self-taught American chef who learned to cook by reading cookbooks and went on to become one of the world’s most renowned chefs. O’Connell began his career with a catering business in an old farmhouse, cooking on a wood stove with an electric frying pan purchased for $1.49 …

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Paleo By Season: A Chef’s Approach to Paleo Cooking

Paleo By Season presents a chef’s approach to healthy Paleo cuisine by teaching home cooks the essential techniques for cooking any food, so they can focus not on recipes but on using the best fresh, local ingredients. With dozens of techniques, over 100 Paleo recipes, and a showcase of small farmers and ranchers cross the country who are …

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In the Kitchen with Alain Passard: Inside the World (and Mind) of a Master Chef

Available in English for the very first time, In the Kitchen with Alain Passard is the first graphic novel to enter the kitchen of a master chef. Over the course of three years, illustrator Christophe Blain trailed acclaimed chef Alain Passard through his kitchens and gardens. With simple yet sublime drawings and thousands of colorful panels, this book …

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La Mere Brazier: The Mother of Modern French Cooking

Available in English for the first time, this charming book combines over 300 classic regional French recipes from Lyon, the hotbed of the French culinary scene, with reminiscences by one of the only female chefs to have won six Michelin stars. La Mère Brazier became the most famous restaurant in France—a magical gastronomic experience that drew such …

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Amuse-Bouche: Little Bites Of Delight Before the Meal Begins

Amuse-bouche (pronounced ah-myuz boosh) are today what hors d’oeuvres were to America in the 1950s: a relatively unknown feature of French culinary tradition that, once introduced, immediately became standard fare. Chefs at many fine restaurants offer guests an amuse-bouche, a bite-sized treat that excites the tongue and delights the eye, before the meal is served. Nobody does it …

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