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Title: Chez Panisse Pasta, Pizza, Calzone by Alice L. Waters ISBN: 0-679-75536-5 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 18 April, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: No basics but some standouts
Comment: I've made many of the recipes here, and have had some great successes. For my birthday I made three pans of mushroom lasagne and people were floored. The chicken and ricotta ravioli are a staple. There are times I feel a little limited by its specificity and taste, but then this isn't supposed to be a general purpose cookbook. In that regard, I find the dessert cookbook to be the most consistently useful.
(A little off topic: too bad the previous reviewer resents the restaurant for having changed with the times. I've had fantastic meals there recently. Alice is an icon now rather than a restaurateur, but the institution still commands respect.)
Rating: 1
Summary: Typical of source
Comment: First the good: great illustrations, printed on fine quality stock.
Now the rest:
AW's addition to America's favorite bedtime reading, but best not to use it as a cooking text (perhaps ideas are interesting for adaptation)
Sorry, like the restaurant, all marketing, little substance.
The restaurant was good, when you paid $7.95 (all you can eat) for its experiments, but for $100 with expensive wine-list (few ready for drinking) it's an insult.
I do appreciate the charge that Alice Waters has given to the stature of cooking, and the new restaurants she's inspired, but her's is not a star.
Back to the book. Interesting read, with some original ideas, but the book seems to have been released before it was field tested. I had one of the original copies, and even some of the basic recipes just didn't work chemically e.g., hand-made pasta had the wrong proportions (perhaps they've fixed this.)
So if you want to read how Alice tells us how Waters changed the face of cooking in America, it's entertaining. The reality is that all that she invented was out of ignorance, as all of it is found in escoffier's turn of the century Ma Cuisine (hyper-reduced sauces, fresh ingredients, etc..) Better, buy Escoffier's book instead (though assumes that you know how to cook.)
If you know how to cook, buy a good cookbook, if you don't by a basic cookbook, if you want to buy a present for somebody impressed with marketing, this is the one for you!
Rating: 2
Summary: It's just not the real thing
Comment: Beautiful book, great recipes...except for one: the pizza dough recipe is nothing like what they use at the Chez Panisse Cafe. After several frustrating attempts to try and duplicate the pizzas that I have eaten so many times, I called the restaurant, and they admitted that the recipe in the book was not the real McCoy. Without it, what's the point? Side note: there is a pizza dough recipe in Rogers and Gray's The Cafe Cookbook that is much closer to the original...
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Title: Chez Panisse Café Cookbook by Alice L. Waters ISBN: 0060175834 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $34.00 |
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Title: Chez Panisse Vegetables by Alice L. Waters ISBN: 0060171472 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 08 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Chez Panisse Fruit by Alice Waters ISBN: 0060199571 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 16 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Chez Panisse Cooking by Alice L. Waters, Paul Bertolli ISBN: 0679755357 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 22 November, 1994 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook by Alice L. Waters ISBN: 0679758186 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 18 April, 1995 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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