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Title: Jean-Georges: Cooking at Home With a Four-Star Chef by Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Mark Bittman, Quentin Bacon ISBN: 076790155X Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 08 September, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.36
Rating: 4
Summary: Unexpected flavors from unexpected combinations
Comment: I bought this book, expecting the best. He uses ingredients that are hard to find in a major metropolitan area (Boston). Oh, but once you find the ingredients, the recipes produce wonderful results. I tried the Rice Paper shrimp and herb rolls, with 5 minute dipping sauce. It was a case of a dish being more than a sum of its parts. The man is a culinary genius. It was one of very few recipes where I couldn't picture the taste before I bit into it. I can't wait to try more of these recipes.
Rating: 5
Summary: elegant and simple
Comment: Jean-Georges has quite an accomplishment with this work--conveying his talent at achieving complex flavors in recipes with a minimum of ingredients and clear instruction. Of the many chef-authored cookbooks I own, this one stands out as one from a talented chef who understands cooking and ingredients. Though works from Gotham City Grill or Jeremiah Tower yield great food, they don't allow you to cook it on a weeknight after work. Jean-George is different. Cornish Game hen with herb-bread stuffing is such a recipe as is the outstanding fresh pea pancake. Both require a minimum of ingredients and preparation and give an abundance of flavor and sophistication. Halibut with sherry sauce sounds pedestrian but, despite its paucity of ingredients, has a sophisticated taste beyond compare. All of the ingredients are readily found in a reasonable supermarket and will not send you to a food encyclopedia. A great book.
Rating: 5
Summary: The simple once again made astonishng!
Comment: Jean-Georges has done it again! This and "Simple Cuisine" are the two most-used cookbooks in my large collection. Everyone is always so impressed by the flavor combinations, and refuses to believe that I haven't slaved for days in the kitchen! I can't stop eating the Sticky Rice Wrapped in Banana Leaves (which is great w/o the banana leaves, too, by the way). And the Soup of Red Fruits is a delicious way to end a meal. The crab salad bound in tomate a la francaise is a winner....Come to think of it, every recipe I've ever tried from one of Vongerichten's cookbooks has turned out perfectly. Sure, my plating might not be up to the standards of the color photos, but the flavors are the same as in Vongerichten's restaurants. This book is worth the price just for the recipe for the curry spice blend. Even if you don't think you have the skills for "gourmet cooking" you can use the recipes in this book.
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Title: Simple to Spectacular: How to Take One Basic Recipe to Four Levels of Sophistication by Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Mark Bittman ISBN: 0767903609 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 10 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Simple Cuisine: The Easy, New Approach to Four-Star Cooking by Jean-Georges Vongerichten ISBN: 0028609913 Publisher: Hungry Minds, Inc Pub. Date: 20 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Daniel Boulud's Cafe Boulud Cookbook: French-American Recipes for the Home Cook by Daniel Boulud, Dorie Greenspan, Martha Stewart ISBN: 068486343X Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Le Bernardin Cook Book: Four-Star Simplicity by Maguy Lecoze, Eric Ripert, Maguy Le Coze ISBN: 0385488416 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $37.50 |
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Title: The French Laundry Cookbook by Thomas Keller, Susie Heller, Michael Ruhlman, Deborah Jones ISBN: 1579651267 Publisher: Artisan Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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