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Title: Dean & Deluca Cookbook by David Rosengarten, Joel Dean, Georgio Deluca, Lori Longbotham, Giorgio Deluca ISBN: 0679434631 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: October, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.87
Rating: 4
Summary: A solidly written cookbook
Comment: Chez Panisse's Alice Waters on the west coast is generally credited with having educated people's palates to the wonders of food that was fresh, fresh, fresh and simply prepared; Dean & DeLuca helped to do the same on the East Coast, but instead of preparing them to enjoy such food only in restaurant settings, the store enabled them to try new culinary tricks at home. Dean & DeLuca's vast stock of formerly unavailable (and frequently pretty esoteric) food goodies emboldened even the most timid of home chefs, and sharpened the sophistication of the New York appetite.
Written by television cooking show host and former GOURMET restaurant reviewer David Rosengarten, with considerable input from Dean and DeLuca themselves, "The Dean & DeLuca Cookbook" is a compendium of nearly 600 recipes. The recipes are divided into component-based sections, rather than seasonal chapters. The dishes are unfailingly imaginative (sometimes perhaps too much so, substituting flash over substance), and Rosengarten has a highly developed flair for educating the reader in manageable bits and pieces with his ingredient and technique tips.
My only complaint is that there is nary an illustration in the entire book. Because the act of eating employs all the senses, I expect any cookbook to reasonably approximate this experience, if only as a way of tempting me to try the recipes. "The Dean & DeLuca Cookbook" is filled with delicious-sounding stuff, but as an invitation to cook, it is a little too text-bookish and nose-to-the-grindstone.
Rating: 5
Summary: Should be called the "Taste" cookbook
Comment: How much does this book have to do with "Dean & Deluca"? Very little! There are a few recipes of items offered for sale at "Dean & Deluca", and some of more exotic ingredients are likely to be found at "Dean & Deluca".
What this book should have been called is the "David Rosengarten - Taste" cookbook. Almost all the recipes come from episodes of "Taste"(the very popular cooking show hosted by David Rosengarten shown several times each day on the TV Food Network).
David is by far the most visible personality on the TV Food Network, having hosted as many as 3 different programs a day ("Taste", "In Food Today", and earlier version of "Dining Around"). He's also a well known wine/food writer for several magazines.
It's not a general cookbook (it's not going to replace you copy of Joy of Cooking), it's not a primer, and it's not a specialty book.
It's more like a "best of" Taste, leaning to the less exotic.
Rating: 5
Summary: Not the only book you'll ever need, but one of the best.
Comment: This is a very useful "contemporary American" cookbook- It's well-written, informative, and full of great recipes. It's pretty ecclectic, and I find myself disappointed sometimes when I try to look something up in the index and it isn't there. It's kind of like asking your braniac friend a question and they don't have the answer- you kind ofassume that they do. This book is so good at what it does you assume it's good at everything. The biggest problem with this book is that it doesn't have all the answers. The greatest thing is that all the answers it has are correct. This isn't one of those utility cookbooks you use like "Joy of Cooking" or "Fanny Farmer." You might not find a gravy recipe, but if you want to serve a dynamite meal to guests without looking like you were trying to get all fancy, this is a great book. And let me reiterate that there's a lot more than recipes in this book- it's also very informative. The continuous use of the third-person plural (The "Royal WE") is a bit annoying, but it's clear that this is David Rosengarten having to prentend that two guys named "Dean" and "Delucca" actually wrote it. Not terribly friendly to dieters, this book is nevertheless not all about fat and carbs. Just lots of good food. Really, really good food.
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Title: Dean & DeLuca: The Food and Wine Cookbook by Jeff Morgan, Steven Rothfeld ISBN: 0811832139 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Taste : One Palate's Journey Through the World's Greatest Dishes by David Rosengarten ISBN: 037575265X Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 27 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Zuni Cafe Cookbook: A Compendium of Recipes and Cooking Lessons from San Francisco's Beloved Restaurant by Judy Rodgers, Gerald Asher ISBN: 0393020436 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 23 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Union Square Cafe Cookbook Ri by Danny Meyer ISBN: 0060170131 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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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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