NOMINEE: James Beard KitchenAid Book Awards, General/Professional - 2005
WINNER: Gourmand World Cookbook Awards (USA Only), Chef - 2004
WINNER: IACP Crystal Whisk Award, Chefs/Restaurants - 2005
WINNER: IACP Crystal Whisk Award, Food Photography - 2005
WINNER: James Beard KitchenAid Book Awards, Photography - 2005
Annotations:
Thomas Keller, chef/proprieter of Napa Valley's French Laundry, is passionate about bistro cooking. He believes fervently that the real art of cooking lies in elevating to excellence the simplest ingredients; that bistro cooking embodies at once a culinary ethos of generosity, economy, and simplicity; that the techniques at its foundation are profound, and the recipes at it
Publisher's Remarks:
When Thomas Keller imagined opening a second restaurant in Napa Valley, next door to his French Laundry, he envisioned a place serving food that excited him in a different way from the food at the French Laundry. He craved food that was less complicated, and a place that was more casual, where he could go every night after work. And that was how Bouchon was born.
Bouchon cooking is about elevating to elegance the simplest ingredients, because the best food isn't necessarily what is served at white-tablecloth restaurants, and the best meals--as most chefs will tell you--don't require the most expensive ingredients or lots of them or lots of steps. The only thing that's required is that you care about all the stages of the process--the slow browning of sliced onion for an onion soup, the proper cutting of the potatoes for a gratin, the right amount of salt on a raw chicken, how long you cook a pot de cre me.
All the emblematic bistro dishes are here, interpreted and executed as they've never been before. The confit of duck, country-style pa te s, soupe a l'oignon gratine e, steamed mussels, steak frites, gigot d'agneau, all achieve the impossible: they get even better.
Product Detail:
Author: Keller, Thomas
Photographer: Jones, Deborah
With: Cerciello, Jeff
Publisher: Artisan, 11/1/2004
Content Language: English
Book,
Hardcover: 360 pages
Weight: 5.46 lbs.
Dimensions: L: 11.32 in. x W: 11.27 in. x H: 1.32 in.
Comes with Illustrations
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