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Saturday Is Cookouts: From Kebabs and Ribs to Potato Salad and More (Everyday Cookbooks)

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Total reviews: 1 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Fantastic cookbook 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

Like the rest of the series, this book is full of fantastic recipes. Our friends swear by the corn recipe, we've loved all the marinades, and the steak recipes are top notch. Just wish there was more!

Burger Meisters

Marcel Desaulniers, Marcel Desaulmiers

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Winner of the James Beard Award for Best Cookbook on a Single Subject

"Never again will a burger be just a burger." That's what one reviewer in the World of Cookbooks newsletter wrote about these extraordinary, mouth-ravishing, soul-satisfying, deliciously tempting versions of America's favorite food.

From a Classic Grilled Hamburger on a toasted homemade bun to a fabulous southwestern Chili Grill Burger with spicy Chipotle Mayonnaise to Shrimp Boulette Po' Boy with Creole Sauce, here is the ultimate source for a burger to tempt anyone.

In the words of editor Marcel Desaulniers, award-winning author of Death by Chocolate and chef and co-owner of the Trellis Restaurant, "Contemporary American chefs have staked a claim in culinary history by revitalizing -- not reinventing -- American regional foods." In this lushly illustrated volume, 46 amazing chefs turn their professional imagination to the humble burger. What results is a fabulous collection of more than 130 recipes for delectable burgers and side dishes. Enjoy the luxury of a Salmon Burger served with Fennel and Red Onion Salad and Sweet Potato Fries, or surprise your guests with an Aztec Burger for dessert-assembled with Chocolate Buns and Rubblechuck Fries, and served with Raspberry Relish, it is a chocoholic's dream!

Desaulniers has gathered expert chefs, all graduates of the renowned Culinary Institute of America, from all across the United States -- New York to Charleston, Atlanta to Chicago, Dallas to Phoenix, Las Vegas to Sonoma -- to collaborate on this delicious journey of the imagination and palate. Throughout this beautiful book, his editorial touch is evident in the crystal-clear instructions, helpful tips on preparation, and expert techniques for the home cook.

You will definitely agree that a burger will never again be just a burger.

California Dish: What I Saw (and Cooked) at the American Culinary Revolution

Jeremiah Tower

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Total reviews: 17 Average rating: 3.0 of 5

Thin Gruel 1 out of 5 stars.
4 of 5 people found this review helpful.

Jeremiah Tower is a talented and innovative chef with brilliant instincts on food and its preparation. But in this memoir he comes across as a totally shallow, erratic, cocaine sniffing, champagne swilling, celebrity fawning, spendthrift and airhead.
One senses that Tower has never read anything more serious than a cookbook. If there is a single idea of consequence in this work I must have missed it. What there is no lack of is insipid gossip and name dropping. Worst of all is the editing, or rather lack of it: this must be one of the most poorly edited books in the history of publishing.
Tower's descriptions of his endlessly messy legal and financial entanglements might possibly have been interesting had they been written in something approaching comprehensible English. But like much of the rest of the book they are barely coherent with unexplained references and gaping holes in the narrative.
In sum, this work is very thin gruel, indeed. Tower should stick to cooking!

Editorial Review:

Widely recognized as the godfather of modern American cooking and a mentor to such rising celebrity chefs as Mario Batali, Jeremiah Tower is one of the most influential cooks of the last thirty years. Now, the former chef and partner at Chez Panisse and the genius behind Stars San Francisco tells the story of his lifelong love affair with food -- an affair that helped to spark an international culinary revolution.

Tower shares with wit and honesty the real dish on cooking, chefs, celebrities, and what really goes on in the kitchen. Above all, Tower rhapsodizes about food -- the meals choreographed like great ballets, the menus scored like concertos. No other book reveals more about the seeds sown in the seventies, the excesses of the eighties, and the self-congratulations of the nineties. No other chef/restaurateur who was there at the very beginning is better positioned than Jeremiah Tower to tell the story of the American culinary revolution.

Sunday Is Family Dinners: From Roast Chicken and Mashed Potatoes to Apple Pie and More (The Everyday Cookbooks)

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California Wine Country Cooking Secrets: Guidebook & Cookbook Starring the Best Restaurants and Wineries of Napa/Sonoma (The Secrets Series)

Kathleen Devanna Fish, Fred Hernandez, Robert N. Fish

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Friday Is Fish and Shrimp and Scallops and Crab and More (Everyday Cookbooks)

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Fabulous Fish! 4 out of 5 stars.
21 of 23 people found this review helpful.

This is a great cookbook. I've tried several of the dishes, and they have all been good. I just made the swordfish piccata, and it was really yummy! There's a good variety, and even people who aren't big fish fans can find something they will like. The directions are clear and simple to follow, and the receipes are all easy to prepare.

Jeremiah Tower Cooks: 250 Recipes from an American Master

Jeremiah Tower

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Total reviews: 7 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

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When Jeremiah Tower started cooking in California in the 1970s, fine food in America was typically a pale imitation of French haute cuisine. Taking the reins at a small Berkeley restaurant named Chez Panisse, Tower looked around at the extraordinary fresh ingredients available from local producers, began experimenting with a cooking style that emphasized pure flavors and inventive combinations...and changed the face of American cooking. In a few years, he went on to open San Francisco's glittering Stars restaurant, becoming this country's first celebrity chef and winning two James Beard Foundation awards, including one for best chef in the U.S. Without debate, Tower is one of the country's greatest cooks. In this extraordinary new cookbook, he presents over 250 recipes representing the last fifteen years of his creative cooking. More than a cookbook, however, Jeremiah Tower Cooks reveals Tower's extraordinary gift as a writer and storyteller. The result is a book of exceptional delights from a marvelous writer and a brilliant cook.

Encarnación's Kitchen: Mexican Recipes from Nineteenth-Century California (California Studies in Food and Culture, 9)

Encarnación Pinedo

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In 1991 Ruth Reichl, then a Los Angeles Times food writer, observed that much of the style now identified with California cuisine, and with nouvelle cuisine du Mexique, was practiced by Encarnacion Pinedo a century earlier. A landmark of American cuisine first published in 1898 as El cocinero espanol (The Spanish Cook), Encarnacion's Kitchen is the first cookbook written by a Hispanic in the United States, as well as the first recording of Californio food--Mexican cuisine prepared by the Spanish-speaking peoples born in California. Pinedo's cookbook offers a fascinating look into the kitchens of a long-ago culture that continues to exert its influence today.

Of some three hundred of Pinedo's recipes included here--a mixture of Basque, Spanish, and Mexican--many are variations on traditional dishes, such as chilaquiles, chiles rellenos, and salsa (for which the cook provides fifteen versions). Whether describing how to prepare cod or ham and eggs (a typical Anglo dish labeled "huevos hipocritas"), Pinedo was imparting invaluable lessons in culinary history and Latino culture along with her piquant directions. In addition to his lively, clear translation, Dan Strehl offers a remarkable view of Pinedo's family history and of the material and literary culture of early California cooking. Prize-winning journalist Victor Valle puts Pinedo's work into the context of Hispanic women's testimonios of the nineteenth century, explaining how the book is a deliberate act of cultural transmission from a traditionally voiceless group.

The San Diego Restaurant Cookbook: Recipes from America's Finest City

Ingrid Croce

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A little too much seafood 3 out of 5 stars.
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This is a nice cookbook, but more for looks than for novice to close to chef status.....very hard and long recipes. The food looks great, but coming from the restaurants and with the list of restaurants, you may as well just fly there and visit the place and eat at them, than try to cook them.

Savor San Francisco: Recipes from San Francisco's Top Restaurants with Wines from California's Best Wineries (Savor Series of Cookbooks)

Elizabeth Alain

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