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Paco Torreblanca Paco Torreblanca
Vilbo Ediciones, 2006
Paco Torreblanca's famous pastry book is now available in English from C.H.I.P.S.
The outstanding success of this book in Spanish has prompted the publication of this new edition which is simultaneously in English and Spanish, both languages in the same book.
This oversized, beautiful hardcover book is illustrated with full color, high quality photos throughout. There are photographs of the ...
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Susur: A Culinary Life, Books 1-2 7 reviews Susur Lee, Jacob Richler, ...
Ten Speed Press, 2005
Susur: Some Thoughts on Perfection in Cuisine
+ great for professionals + It is what it is + Susur Lee
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Desserts by Pierre Herme 23 reviews Pierre Herme, Dorie Greenspan, ...
Little Brown & Company, 1998
Not your grandmother's cook book...
+ Lovers of Desserts + Delight + Exceptional recipes + "American Patisseries" fail miserably. This book doesn't!
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Cocktail Cuisine (English Edition) Toni Botella
Montagud Editores, 2004
Great book for any fans of 'El Bulli' type cuisine, beautifully illustrated book.
Ferran Adria says about this book: "It gives me great pleasure to present my friend Tony Botella's original book. I know that he has been and always will be a true "Bulliniano"; it is surely this connection that allows me to appreciate and understand his work so well.
This may not be the first time we see ...
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Essential Cuisine 3 reviews Michel Bras
Ici La Pr, 2002
Art
+ Very 'haute cuisine', very decorative, useful ideas. + the french trotter
This man loves his cuisine and loves nature. The photos are simple and stylish but not contrived. There are also many well executed photos of the countryside in the back. The directions are as simple as if you are standing next to a cook who is explaining things to you as they cook. I can't help ...
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Michael Mina: The Cookbook 6 reviews Michael Mina, JoAnn Cianciulli
Bulfinch, 2006
Michael Mina's cookbook
+ Beautiful book, and great food, but not too practical + Great book for a budding Chef + Beautiful cookbook with pictures to match.
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Tetsuya: Recipes from Australia's Most Acclaimed Chef 7 reviews Tetsuya Wakuda
Ten Speed Press, 2001
Oriental haute cuisine with no gimmicks, by a master
+ Beautiful food + Great book for the more expierenced chef + Innovative
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Egg 2 reviews Patrick Mikanowski, Lyndsay Mikanowski
Flammarion, 2007
Fabulous
+ Gorgeous food, gorgeous pictures ... delicious too
A rich and sumptuous book with stunning photography and a single minded focus on strange and beguiling quotes on, and recipes for, eggs.
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Alinea 15 reviews Grant Achatz
Ten Speed Press, 2008
Absolutely Beautiful!
+ Achatz is Dali: Alinea - Each Bite is a Paragraph of Mindfulness + Awesome + Astounding and inspirational + The world is a better place because of Chef Achatz.
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Nobu: The Cookbook 24 reviews Nobuyuki Matsuhisa, Robert De Niro
Kodansha International, 2001
Some of Nobu's signature dishes in a top quality book
+ really good + Model of the excellent coffee table cookbook. + very satisfied with this provider + EXCEPTIONAL COOKBOOK
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The Elements of Taste 11 reviews Gray Kunz, Peter Kaminsky
Little, Brown and Company, 2001
The best ... bucks you will ever spend!
+ 4 Star Recipes That Can be Easily Executed + the science of cooking + Interesting, but flawed + Cooking reduced to tastes - delicious
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Grand Livre de Cuisine: Alain Ducasse's Desserts and Pastries 6 reviews Alain Ducasse, Frederic Robert
"Stewart, Tabori and Chang", 2006
Wonderful book for pastry and dessert
+ Nice to look at + Professional View + Beautiful + Excellent Pastry and Bread Resource
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Charlie Trotter's Meat and Game 6 reviews Charlie Trotter, Michael Voltattorni, ...
Ten Speed Press, 2001
Don't try this at home!
+ Amazing + Give this to your hunter + Meat & Game Extravaganza! + all amazing books but this one at top
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Happy in the Kitchen: The Craft of Cooking, the Art of Eating 19 reviews Michel Richard
Artisan, 2006
I'm having fun!
+ Michele Richard is Brilliant! + Best of the cookbooks + Such fun! + Makes me happy too!!
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Pierre Gagnaire: Reinventing French Cuisine 3 reviews Peter Lippmann
Stewart, Tabori and Chang, 2007
Vadouvan
+ Essence: Recipes from Le Champignon Sauvage
Product was as described and arrived in good time.
I bought it for the recipe for the seasoning "Vadouvan". EXCELLENT!
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Pourcel Brothers Cookbook: Our Recipes from La Compagnie des Comptoirs 1 review Jacques Pourcel, Laurent Pourcel
Hachette Illustrated UK, 2005
Another attractive French Restaurant book. Yawn.
The `Pourcel Brothers Cookbook' by twin brothers Jacques and Laurent Pourcel, the owners of several restaurants in London, Tokyo, Bangkok, and Montpellier and Avignon, France is a reasonably priced ($29.95) oversized volume which has the look of being primarily an advertisement for their ...
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Essence 1 review David Everitt-Matthias
Absolute Press, 2008
STUNNING
If you are chef this is the book for you.recipes like a sunchoke and the roasted almond soup,chessnut soup,eel tortelloni with watercress cream and bitter leaves,and pumpkin gnocchi with crisp pork belly seared squid and peanut milk.only down side not every recipe has a picture,but the photos yhat ...
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El Bulli: 1998-2002 10 reviews Ferran Adria, Juli Soler, ...
Ecco, 2005
Adria is Real
+ Being different made the differences. + Review from a culinary school graduate/food consultant + Master Werk + lot of catching up to do
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Morimoto: The New Art of Japanese Cooking 18 reviews Masaharu Morimoto
DK Publishing, 2007
An Iron Chef's Cookbook
+ I felt like the foodie version of Being John Malkovich + Morimoto an Excellent Book of Japanese Cuisine + Wonderful + Great Food Japanese Food and His Fans
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Foie Gras: A Passion 14 reviews Michael A. Ginor, Mitchell Davis, ...
Wiley, 1999
Stop being ridiculous
+ Foie Gras: A Passion
This is not a forum for open discussion about the method of making Foie. This review section is about a book and how well it was written and the information you get from it. This is a great book about the preparation of Foie and some really nice pictures as well. I would recommend this book to ...
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