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Title: The Minimalist Entertains by Mark Bittman ISBN: 0-7679-1193-8 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: Not as good as his usual, still better than most cookbooks
Comment: Realistically, I wish I could give it three and a half stars. It's better than your average cookbook, but not as good as a *typical* Mark Bittman cookbook.
The strength of MOST of Mark Bittman's cookbooks is that they teach you *how* to cook by giving you tons of variation ideas on every recipe and lots of encouragement. They are good books to *read* and not just cook from. This book doesn't give you any variations at all, and little text. Instead, it gives you forty menus, and each menu consists of a short blurb, a few "keys to success", wine recommendations, a rough timetable, and the recipes.
The menus look pretty good, and are categorized by season. The recipes are pretty typical of his style - a few key ingredients, prepared simply, into a somewhat unusual finished dish. He writes in his intro that he keeps menus at a maximum of 2 complex dishes (and the others more simple or store bought, like good bread). I still find this too much when I entertain, especially for a crowd of 8.
I have to admit I'm not sold on the "menu" concept in general. I tend to enjoy doing this sort of planning myself - based on my own tastes, knowledge of my guests' tastes (vegans/non-spicy/no-fish/whatever) and my ability to juggle several courses in the kitchen while holding a coherent conversation with the guest that won't go mingle. I inevitably burn *something* at each dinner party. ;-)
I typically LOVE Mark Bittman books - I have the "Cooks Dinner" one, the "Cooks at Home" one, and "How to Cook Everything" which is in my opinion the most useful cook-book EVER. But this one isn't as good as the rest. I'm giving it 4 stars because the food still looks good, but I've cooked more from Ina Garten's "The Barefoot Contessa: Parties" more than I've cooked from this.
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Title: The Minimalist Cooks at Home : Recipes That Give You More Flavor from Fewer Ingredients in Less Time by Mark Bittman ISBN: 0767909267 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 10 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: The Minimalist Cooks Dinner by Mark Bittman ISBN: 0767906713 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 11 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food by Mark Bittman ISBN: 0028610105 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 14 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: How to Cook Everything: The Basics by Mark Bittman ISBN: 076456756X Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 04 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: How to Cook Everything: Holiday Cooking by Mark Bittman, Alan Witschonke ISBN: 0764525123 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 28 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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