Short description
This text focuses on the development of leading chefs' cuisines, detailing the work in photographs. The authors and the chefs discuss techniques for flavour enhancement, the development of new dishes and the principles behind their menus.
Long description
Written in an anecdotal style, this text focuses on the development of leading chefs' cuisines, detailing the work in photographs. It also highlights the principles upon which the chefs base their cuisine. The authors and the chefs discuss techniques for flavour enhancement, the development of new dishes and the principles behind their menus.
Review
"The husband-and-wife writing team of Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page--he is a chef, she a journalist--has produced four books in the past six years, and these are the best place to experience the cult of the New American chef." (The New Yorker, September 2001)
Table of contents
- The Chef as Artist
- Meet Your Medium
- Composing Flavors
- Composing a Dish
- Why Food Matches? Food Matches Made in Heaven
- Seasoning Matches Made in Heaven
- Composing a Menu
- Common Accompaniments to Entrees
- Evolving a Cuisine
- The Evolution of Leading Chefs' Cuisines
- Desert Island Lists
- Culinary Art as Communion
- Resources
- Biographies of Chefs
- Index
- About the Authors