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Epicurus Shoppes - Ad Hoc at Home
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Manufacturer: Artisan
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5973
EAN: 9781579653774
Feature: ISBN13: 9781579653774
ISBN: 1579653774
Label: Artisan
Manufacturer: Artisan
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: 2009-11-06
Publisher: Artisan
Studio: Artisan
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ISBN13: 9781579653774
Condition: New
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Editorial Reviews:
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Thomas Keller shares family-style recipes that you can make any or every day.
In the book every home cook has been waiting for, the revered Thomas Keller turns his imagination to the American comfort foods closest to his heart—flaky biscuits, chicken pot pies, New England clam bakes, and cherry pies so delicious and redolent of childhood that they give Proust's madeleines a run for their money. Keller, whose restaurants The French Laundry in Yountville, California, and Per Se in New York have revolutionized American haute cuisine, is equally adept at turning out simpler fare.
In Ad Hoc at Home—a cookbook inspired by the menu of his casual restaurant Ad Hoc in Yountville—he showcases more than 200 recipes for family-style meals. This is Keller at his most playful, serving up such truck-stop classics as Potato Hash with Bacon and Melted Onions and grilled-cheese sandwiches, and heartier fare including beef Stroganoff and roasted spring leg of lamb. In fun, full-color photographs, the great chef gives step-by-step lessons in kitchen basics— here is Keller teaching how to perfectly shape a basic hamburger, truss a chicken, or dress a salad. Best of all, where Keller’s previous best-selling cookbooks were for the ambitious advanced cook, Ad Hoc at Home is filled with quicker and easier recipes that will be embraced by both kitchen novices and more experienced cooks who want the ultimate recipes for American comfort-food classics.
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Summary: Accessible but not dumbed-down recipes from one of the worlds greatest chefs.
Comment: The model for Ad Hoc the restaurant is that there is no menu: you show up, and they serve you whatever is "for dinner." That in mind, the items they make must be broadly appealing, flexible in presentation, and really REALLY good, because you're still forking over hundreds of dollars for this lack of choice.
The recipe book is excellent. Great, classic dishes with inviting ingredients, well prepared. As someone who owns--and has cooked from--Keller's French Laundry cookbook, I can tell you that this book is a different animal indeed. It could not be more different.
A great one to have on the shelf. I expect to cook quite a lot from this book over the next year.
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Summary: Easier than Under Pressure but some things I really wonder if he cooks for his family
Comment: Overall this cook book is easier than other high end chef's cookbooks. The premise of the book is for family style meals. There's a lot of great stuff in here. But still there are some things that I think "Who really would cook this for their family?". Not to say that the food sounds bad. But the prep time and such. There are a few dishes that require you to make something a day or so in advance then finish the next day (Potatoes pave I think).
There are a lot of good tips on how to be a better chef and why things matter that they call light bulb moments. Those are pretty cool. I like shows like Good Eats and Americas Test Kitchen as well as books like What Einstein Told His Cook. So the understanding of why is excellent.
I'd recommend this cookbook to anyone really. You can learn better technique, new flavors, and better understanding as to why you do certain things. But you get the flavors of a high end chef which is great.
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Summary: Nothing Ad Hoc about these Recipes
Comment: Famed chef Thomas Keller uses the inspiration of the staff meals served at his more casual restaurant Ad Hoc, to put together family-style recipes in //Ad Hoc at Home//. Staff meals are usually made from the previous night's leftovers and in the case of a restaurant like Ad Hoc, plenty of extra touches that move it from leftovers to casual //haute cuisine//. There are plenty of "basic" recipes, from fried chicken to an iceberg lettuce salad, seem simple in concept, but become more complex with Keller's upgrades. There are plenty of small lessons throughout the book - just in the chicken section is how to truss one and how to do an eight or ten piece cut of a whole chicken - or odd tips such as cleaning a grill grate with a large yellow onion.
The many recipes cover all the standards one might expect, yet each adds both a layer of complexity and quality to them. Many of them are not causal, spur of the moment meals (the fried chicken requires a twelve hour brine), but for a planned meal, can raise the level of "casual" family meals to exceptional. The photography nearly reaches the level of food porn; many dishes skillfully prepared and artfully arranged for full page pictures. The recipes sometimes require specialty ingredients, requiring access to a specialty grocery store, or using the online index of sources included in the reference section. //Ad Hoc at Home// does have a well organized index, well detailed instructions and plenty of tips on cooking that will help the beginning and intermediate home chefs raise the level of their kitchen skills.
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Summary: Great Cookbook! Yummy Food!
Comment: I recently purchased this cookbook because it was one of the best for 2009. Wow! It really is. I have made several of the recipes (fried chicken, short ribs, spaghetti and meatballs) and they were all delicious. The one thing that stood out for me was his chicken brine recipe which is now used every time I make chicken breasts. It truly makes a difference in the taste and flavor of the chicken. I bought this cookbook for a friend and we are making TK's recipes and comparing notes. I am really glad I have this cookbook.
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Summary: Thomas Keller genius
Comment: There are a lot of recipes in this book - and I believe 99.9% can be done at home with no problem. Great book - after reading through it once - I went back again!
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