1,001 Complete Meals That You Can Whip Up in Less Than 20
Minutes while Drinking Two Glasses of Red Wine,
That Everyone in Your Family, From the Vegan to
the All-meat Eater to the No-Fat Fanatic to the
Picky-Just-For-Picky's-Sake, Will Happily Consume,
That Contain Only Ingredients You Always Have on
Hand Anyway, Are Relatively Healthy Meals, and Cannot Be
Burned or Undercooked or Ruined in Any Other Way,
with a Special Supplement and Menus for Weekend or
Holiday Entertaining crafted by Some of North America's
Finest Executive Chefs. Third edition. (Pandemic Press, 2011, 781
pages,$49.99 CND hard covers) is by Roz Chast. It has
been authorized by the Professional Food Network
Television Cooking School. The title says it all.
There are full-page, full-colour gastroporn photos
by 12 international food stylists, and the book has been
endorsed (logrolled) by Charlie Trotter, Mario Batali, Gordon Ramsay, Rachel Ray
Minutes while Drinking Two Glasses of Red Wine,
That Everyone in Your Family, From the Vegan to
the All-meat Eater to the No-Fat Fanatic to the
Picky-Just-For-Picky's-Sake, Will Happily Consume,
That Contain Only Ingredients You Always Have on
Hand Anyway, Are Relatively Healthy Meals, and Cannot Be
Burned or Undercooked or Ruined in Any Other Way,
with a Special Supplement and Menus for Weekend or
Holiday Entertaining crafted by Some of North America's
Finest Executive Chefs. Third edition. (Pandemic Press, 2011, 781
pages,$49.99 CND hard covers) is by Roz Chast. It has
been authorized by the Professional Food Network
Television Cooking School. The title says it all.
There are full-page, full-colour gastroporn photos
by 12 international food stylists, and the book has been
endorsed (logrolled) by Charlie Trotter, Mario Batali, Gordon Ramsay, Rachel Ray
and Emeril Lagasse. All recipes have ingredients
listed with every known weights and measures
system in the world. Bold face type fonts are used
where appropriate, and there are twelve wine
recommendations for each dish and budget. The last
chapter has several thousand tips and advice on
how to get others to clean up the kitchen and put
out the garbage (most of these involve enslavement
of the kids and pets). The book concludes with a
source list from every country in the world, plus
a comprehensive massive bibliography.
Audience: any cook in the land
Some impressive recipes: foie gras terrine for
under $10; oysters with chewable shells; no-veggie
salad; double chocolate mousse with triple creme
cheese augmented by a quadruple bypass; Chateau
Petrus alfresco bagatelle.
What I don't like about this book: the pages are
stiff and don't photocopy very well
What I do like about this book: the 100,000 items
index really works, especially the internal
seventh layer of the cross-references.
Quality/Price Ratio: 98.
listed with every known weights and measures
system in the world. Bold face type fonts are used
where appropriate, and there are twelve wine
recommendations for each dish and budget. The last
chapter has several thousand tips and advice on
how to get others to clean up the kitchen and put
out the garbage (most of these involve enslavement
of the kids and pets). The book concludes with a
source list from every country in the world, plus
a comprehensive massive bibliography.
Audience: any cook in the land
Some impressive recipes: foie gras terrine for
under $10; oysters with chewable shells; no-veggie
salad; double chocolate mousse with triple creme
cheese augmented by a quadruple bypass; Chateau
Petrus alfresco bagatelle.
What I don't like about this book: the pages are
stiff and don't photocopy very well
What I do like about this book: the 100,000 items
index really works, especially the internal
seventh layer of the cross-references.
Quality/Price Ratio: 98.
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