Secrets of the Best Chefs [electronic resource] : Recipes, Techniques, and Tricks from America's Greatest Cooks

ISBN:

9781579655297

Title:

Author:

Roberts, Adam.

Personal Author:

Roberts, Adam.

Publication Information:

New York : Artisan, 2012.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (381 p.)

General Note:

Description based upon print version of record.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Praise for Secrets of the Best Chefs""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""What You Need to Proceed""; ""A Note About the Recipes""; ""Ten Essential Rules for Cooking Like a Chef""; ""Chefs""; ""Jonathan Waxman""; ""Angelish Wilson""; ""Brandon Pettit""; ""Alice Waters""; ""Bobby Hellen""; ""Lidia Bastianich""; ""Grace Young""; ""Peter Dale""; ""Einat Admony""; ""Nancy Silverton""; ""Harold Dieterle""; ""Vinny Dotolo & Jon Shook""; ""Gina DePalma""; ""Melissa Clark""; ""Tim Artz""; ""Rebecca Charles""; ""Gary Danko""

""Alex Raij & Eder Montero""""Alain Allegretti""; ""Samin Nosrat""; ""Anthony Martin""; ""Ana Jovancicevic""; ""Sara Moulton""; ""Marco Canora""; ""Roy Choi""; ""Michael Richard""; ""Susan Feniger""; ""Christopher Israel""; ""Tony Mantuano""; ""Renee Erickson""; ""Omar Powell""; ""Jessamyn Waldman Rodriguez""; ""Kevin Davis""; ""Asha Gomez""; ""Chuy Valencia""; ""Tom Douglas""; ""Anne Quatrano""; ""Hugue Dufour""; ""Michael White""; ""Amanda Cohen""; ""Linton Hopkins""; ""Charles Phan""; ""Anita Lo""; ""Daniel Patterson""; ""Curtis Duffy""; ""JosÃ© AndrÃ©s""; ""Naomi Pomeroy""

""Hugh Acheson""""Nils Noren & Dave Arnold""; ""Elizabeth Falkner""; ""Afterword""; ""Resources""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Index""

Subject Term:

Cooking -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Cooking.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2012

Publication Information:

New York : Artisan, 2012.

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Summary

Learn to cook from the best chefs in America

Some people say you can only learn to cook by doing. So Adam Roberts, creator of the award-winning blog The Amateur Gourmet , set out to cook in 50 of America's best kitchens to figure out how any average Joe or Jane can cook like a seasoned pro. From Alice Waters's garden to José Andrés's home kitchen, it was a journey peppered with rock-star chefs and dedicated home cooks unified by a common passion, one that Roberts understands deeply and transfers to the reader with flair, thoughtfulness, and good humor: a love and appreciation of cooking. Roberts adapts recipes from Hugh Acheson, Lidia Bastianich, Roy Choi, Harold Dieterle, Sara Moulton, and more.

The culmination of that journey is a cookbook filled with lessons, tips, and tricks from the most admired chefs in America, including how to properly dress a salad, bake a no-fail piecrust, make light and airy pasta, and stir-fry in a wok, plus how to improve your knife skills, eliminate wasteful food practices, and create recipes of your very own. Most important, Roberts has adapted 150 of the chefs' signature recipes into totally doable dishes for the home cook. Now anyone can learn to cook like a pro!

Author Notes

Adam Roberts is the creator of The Amateur Gourmet , called one of the "World's Best Food Blogs" by The Times of London and a "food world must-read" by The Denver Post . Since he began his blog in 2004, Roberts has been featured on CNN and hosted several shows for Food Network online, and in addition to writing his own blog, he writes for Food & Wine , Salon , Serious Eats , The Huffington Post , and Epicurious . He is currently discovering places to eat in his new hometown: Los Angeles, California.

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Roberts, better known as the Amateur Gourmet blogger, showcases 50 of the chefs he's encountered throughout the years, both professional and home cooks, and recounts their culinary journeys and favorite recipes to inspire readers to cook at home. A who's who of the food world, participants include Barbuto's Jonathan Waxman, Alice Waters of Chez Panisse, noted TV personality and restaurateur Lidia Bastianich, La Brea Bakery's Nancy Silverton, and Sara Moulton, famed TV host and cookbook author. Among these legendary cooks we find culinary gems such as Tim Artz, who makes his own honey, mead, and soap (from rendered beef fat), not to mention growing everything from figs and Meyer lemons to kaffir lime leaves. Angelish Wilson, chef-owner of Wilson's Soul Food, offers food that radiates the warmth and comfort you'd expect from a Southern soul food restaurant, from vegetarian collard greens and chow chow to glorious fried chicken and fresh pecan pie. Melissa Clark, cookbook author and New York Times food columnist, shares her seared duck breast with garam masala and grapes, while Top Chef winner Harold Dieterle offers up chicken with rosemary and fennel and balsamic-braised radicchio. While some of these dishes may seem beyond the reach of amateur home cooks, Roberts argues just the opposite. As a self-taught cook, he aims to inspire confidence in the kitchen and encourage home cooks to expand their culinary horizons. No one could ask for a better group of instructors. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Library Journal Review

Since launching his blog, self-taught cook Roberts (amateurgourmet.com; The Amateur Gourmet: How to Shop, Chop, and Table Hop Like a Pro (Almost)) has become a full-time food writer. Here, he distills his experiences cooking alongside all-star chefs (e.g., Alice Waters, Michel Richard, Jose Andres) into 50 chapters, each comprising an essay, a "Kitchen Know-How" sidebar of tips, and three meticulously adapted and annotated recipes (e.g., Yogurt-Marinated Leg of Lamb, Pasta Fagioli, Lemon Semifreddo with Blackberries and Honey). VERDICT Finally, a chef cookbook that demonstrates sympathy for the novice! Highly recommended for home cooks who want to become less recipe-reliant. (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.