A Great American Cook: Recipes from the Home Kitchen of One of Our Most Influential Chefs
Renowned chef Jonathan Waxman knows that becoming a great American cook starts at home — here he shares methods for recipes you can pull together with just a few ingredients.
Widely recognized as one of the fathers of New American cuisine, Jonathan Waxman knows how to make magnificent food from just a few ingredients, roasting eggplants and red peppers for an intensely flavored soup or tossing asparagus with oranges and hazelnuts for a refreshing first course. His vision is bold, but strikingly unpretentious: many of the dishes in A Great American Cook — like the Shrimp BLT, Crispy Chicken and Goat Cheese Burritos, and Gingerbread with Brandied Plums — are free-spirited plays on classics, and his “less is more” philosophy animates suppers like flash-seared scallops on caramelized onions and chicken cooked under a brick with a sauce of rosé wine, bacon, and peas. From a versatile vegetable dish that goes with nearly every main course to handmade pastas with delicate sauces to a foolproof way to cook salmon, Waxman gives you all the techniques and recipes you need for simple, sophisticated cooking at home.
- Author
- Jonathan Waxman, Bobby Flay
- Format
- hardcover
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- Rux Martin/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780618658527
- Genres
- food, cookbooks
- Release date
- 2007
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