The French Laundry Cookbook106 reviews Thomas Keller, Deborah Jones Artisan, 1999 essential for the serious French food lover + Awsome + Great + Precision Cooking Solely For Serious Home Cooks...             Mangoes & Curry Leaves: Culinary Travels Through the Great Subcontinent19 reviews Jeffrey Alford, Naomi Duguid Artisan, 2005 Excellenet! + Excellent, Informative and Engaging Cookbook/Diary + Mangoes & Curry Leaves: Culinary Travels Through the Great Subcontinent + Finally tried some of the recipes - all turned out great!             Bistrol Bruno - Cooking from L'Odeon Bruno Loubet Trans-Atlantic Publications, 1995             Charlie Trotter's Vegetables13 reviews Charlie Trotter Ten Speed Press, 1996 An excellent book + AWESOME!!! + Don't try this at home! + a love for vegetables             Girardet: Recipes from a Master of French Cuisine2 reviews Fredy Giradet Ten Speed Press, 2002 Perfection. No question about it. + Great exemplars of haute cuisine recipes. Highly recommended This is without question one of the best cookbooks ever. I can't get my mind around how it is absolutely "just right". The food is lavish and beautifully presented, yet, it has this simplicity about it that brings it back from pomposity. There is a touch, a feel, that is as good as I've ever ...             Charlie Trotter's Seafood8 reviews Charlie Trotter Ten Speed Press, 1997 Art Book, Cook Book. + Excellant + Don't try this at home! + Good picture and idea book             Grand Livre de Cuisine: Alain Ducasse's Culinary Encyclopedia6 reviews Alain Ducasse Stewart, Tabori and Chang, 2007 A Great and Professional Work + I wouldnt have known it was discounted if i hadnt bought it myself + Breathtaking recipes! + Grand Livre de Cuisine: Alain Ducasse's Culinary Encyclopedia (Hardcover)             Kaiseki: The Exquisite Cuisine of Kyoto's Kikunoi Restaurant9 reviews Yoshihiro Murata Kodansha International, 2006 For looking, not cooking + A beautiful reference book + Stunning. + A new look at an old tradition             Keep It Simple a Fresh Look At Classic C Alastair Little, Richard Whittington Trafalgar Square, 1997             The Last Course: The Desserts of Gramercy Tavern19 reviews Claudia Fleming Random House, 2001 lost for words + combinations inspirational + my most used tool + intense flavors, innovative desserts             Jean-Georges: Cooking At Home with a Four-Star Chef21 reviews Jean Georges Vongerichten, Mark Bittman Broadway Books, 1998 Easy Cuisine at home + One of my favorites + my favorite cooking book + a winner             Lumiere6 reviews Rob Feenie Ten Speed Press, 2001 A great book! + A decent book of good 'haute cuisine' restaurant dishes + For special occassions and inspiration If you're looking for recipes created by a chef instead of those cookie-cutter recipe books, this is the book for you. No matter where you are you'll find that the seasonal produce follows you (for example, berry fruits come before stone fruits, which come before the apple family (apples, pears ...             Hot Sour Salty Sweet: A Culinary Journey Through Southeast Asia31 reviews Jeffrey Alford, Naomi Duguid Artisan, 2000 This literary and culinary triumph is a ticket to SE Asia. + Wonderful + Very Good Coffee Table Book. Good recipes, but expensive + Like Southeast Asian Food? Get this book!             Essence1 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 ...             Beyond the Great Wall: Recipes and Travels in the Other China15 reviews Jeffrey Alford, Naomi Duguid Artisan, 2008 wonderful book + Super + Great book!! + GREAT BOOK ! I LOVED IT + The Other Chinese             Nobu West3 reviews Nobu Matsuhisa, Mark Edwards Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2007 Nobu West + Several New Things I've Got to Try We all knew that Nobu Matsuhisa is a great cook, but the way he combined the west cooking with the east and his influences from Peru is just grandious. I would consider the best book I bought in years. Simple to follow, extremely well documented and the pictures are just marvelous. For an ...             Charlie Trotter's Desserts16 reviews Charlie Trotter, Trotter Charlie, ... Ten Speed Press, 1998 excellent ideas and photos, but not for the practical chef + inspirational desserts charlie trotter creates some of the finest courses i've ever seen. the only problem with this is, nothing contained within this series of books is even remotely practical or feasible from the home kitchen. the ingredients he uses are sometimes impossible to find (even when ordering through a ...             Matt Moran2 reviews Matt Moran Penguin Global, 2008 AWSOME + An Aussie icon of dining GREAT BOOK SHOWCASING ON OF THE TOP CHEFS IN THE WORLD BROVO . SOME SEA ITEMS HARD TO FIND IF AT ALL IN USA BUT VERY EASY TO SUB FOR LOCAL INGEDIENTS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED !!! -CHEFWD303             Charlie Trotter's18 reviews Charlie Trotter Ten Speed Press, 1994 Become Your Own Charlie Trotter + Of course you'll use these recipes! Nobody seriously thinks you are going to translate these recipes into a home-cooked meal. That's not the point. You read this kind of book on cuisine as though it were a philosophy book. And he's clever about helping you do that. It's amazing, and amazingly beautiful. Maybe you won't make ...             Nobu: The Cookbook24 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