A nicely presented cook book with simple, easy-to-follow recipes

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	• Think Like a Chef Tom Colicchio Clarkson Potter, 2007 - 271 pages average customer review:based on 30 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Outstanding!!!!!!!

This outstanding book provides long overdue insight into the "why" of modern cooking rather than merely "how" it is done. This book should be invaluable to anyone who wants to broaden or improve his or her cooking thought process.

Great reading

I read this book from cover to cover and was able to get an idea of a style of cooking that I could incorporate into my own. A bit too much salt and perhaps oil for my taste/health, but otherwise a great book to read and get ideas from.

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That's right, not JUST a cookbook!

With all due respect, there are thousands of "cook books" full of recipes out there. If I understand Chef Collicchio's intent here, it is to help those of us who don't want to use recipes to succeed in the development of our own styles, understanding classical techniques and flavor combinations. I took this on a plane ride and almost got all the way through it before my son took it home after one of our semi-competitive Sunday dinners. I guess I'd better buy him his own copy, I see it is coming out in paperback soon. The book is well written and very, very readable and instructive. I've studied in France and the USA, and found both new and useful reviews of skills I should have had!

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A nicely presented cook book with simple, easy-to-follow recipes

I'm a huge fan of Food TV and Top Chef (which for the record blows away The Next Iron Chef America).

So my friend got me this book for Christmas last year. An easy tone permeates the book, which helps carry the reader between Colicchio's personal stories, the recipes and how to connect them into masterful meals.

The recipes are easy to follow and, as promised, build on techniques and themes described in the opening chapters.

I do have some suggestions for improvement which might influence someone reading this review in their buying decision:

* Many of the cooking techniques are pretty basic. Blanching, roasting...these sections may not teach you anything you don't already know. But at least there are some basic recipes (e.g., roast chicken) included.

* By contrast, sauce-making was too brief and didn't formally cover any of the "5 mother sauces." Beurre blanc, apple cider sauce and beurre fondue are included...the rest of the chapter is devoted to vinaigrettes. Colicchio's premise is to use the techniques in the book to develop your own ideas. But if we are to think like chefs, I think more comprehensive coverage here would have been a tremendeously valauble addition.

* One reviewer pointed out some of the ingredients are hard to find or expensive. I think this book is better than some other celebrity chef cookbooks on this front. But each of the trilogies contain at least one expensive or hard-to-find ingredient. Perhaps at least one trilogy with more standard household ingredients would have been a better choice.

Overall I'm glad I own the book and have enjoyed every recipe I've made.

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a great find!

This is a terrific way to get inside the head of a master chef. Understanding his techniques and methods; in addition to having access to some of his recipes has been immensely helpful in our kitchen. Now we're all thinking like chefs...YUM.

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