Pros: Beautiful photography; excellent tips and techniques Cons: Highly unrealistic for almost all home kitchens; cost of ingredients would break most food budgets
If Thomas Keller, French Laundry restaurant owner, had been interested in art instead of cooking, the world might have been blessed with another Renoir or Rembrandt. His passionate dedication to excellent food requires uncompromising dedication to only...
Pros: Exquisite photography; amazingly-complex dishes. Cons: Unless you are a master chef, most recipes will be next to impossible.
I am at a bit of a loss as to how to rate this book. If I were to rate it purely as a cookbook, I would give it two or three stars, as most of the recipes are virtually impossible for a home cook without the aid of a restaurant kitchen and an army of...
Pros: gorgeous photography, treats food and cooking with a reverence bordering on a religious experience Cons: beautiful to look at, almost impossible to use for the average cook
I believe the term "food porn" was coined by another favourite chef of mine, Anthony Bourdain. It means books, television shows and magazine articles about food so exquisite, complicated, imaginative and beyond the reach of the everyday cook, that you ...
Pros: Inventive and amazingly delicious recipes, makes for great reading too Cons: It's only for the truly dedicated home chef
The French Laundry is Thomas Keller's small, but enormously popular and highly regarded restaurant in Napa Valley California. The restaurant is regarded by many food critics as one of the best, if not the best, restaurants in the country.
Pros: Beautiful photos and well written--makes a great coffee table book. Cons: Recipes are extremely complicated and involved. Difficult for even an intermediate chef.
Like many of the other cooks who previously reviewed this book, I also balked at the complexity of preparation for most of the dishes. I have, however, cooked many of the dishes or used his techniques to improve certain dishes that I wanted to make. ...
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