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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 2004, Momofuku Noodle Bar opened in a tiny space in Manhattan's East Village. Chang, the chef-owner, worked the line, serving ramen and pork buns to a mix of fellow restaurant cooks and confused diners whose idea of ramen was instant noodles in Styrofoam cups. He was about to become one of the most influential chefs of his generation, driven by the question, "What if the underground could become the mainstream?" Here he recounts the improbable...
Author
Publisher
Duo Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
160 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Julia Child knew how to have fun, and she also knew how to whip up a delightful meal. After traveling around the world working for the U.S. government, Julia found her calling in the kitchen and devoted her life to learning, perfecting, and sharing the art of French cuisine. This delicious, illustrated biography is a portrait of the remarkable woman, author, and TV personality who captured our hearts with her sparkling personality. 'Bon appétit!'"--Provided...
Author
Language
English
Description
"It begins with a simple ritual: Every Saturday afternoon, a boy who loves to cook walks to his grandmother's house and helps her prepare a roast chicken for dinner. The grandmother is Swedish, a retired domestic. The boy is Ethiopian and adopted, and he will grow up to become the world-renowned chef Marcus Samuelsson. This book is his love letter to food and family in all its manifestations. Marcus Samuelsson was only three years old when he, his...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After World War II, a newly affluent United States reached for its own gourmet culture, one at ease with the French international style of Escoffier, but also distinctly American. Enter James Beard, authority on cooking and eating, his larger-than-life presence and collection of whimsical bow ties synonymous with the nation's food for decades, even after his death in 1985. In the first biography of Beard in twenty-five years, John Birdsall argues...
38) Life, on the line: a chef's story of chasing greatness, facing death, and redefining the way we eat
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Achatz, "one of America's great chefs" ("Vogue"), shares how his drive to cook immaculate food won him international renown--and fueled his miraculous triumph over tongue cancer. "Life, on the Line" is also a book about survival, about nurturing creativity, and about profound friendship.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 337 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A foodwriter and graduate of the French Culinary Institute recounts her time apprenticing at four high-end restaurants around the world, including under the famed chef Wylie Dufresne at the molecular gastronomy hotspot wd-50.
40) To the bone
Author
Publisher
Clarkson Potter/Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xv, 272 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Combines stories from the author's childhood and day-to-day life at New York City's Corton restaurant with explanations about how great chefs build recipes from mismatched parts and how he gained inspiration from famous chefs around the world.
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