Stretching from the shores of Turkey to the Ionian Sea east ofItaly, the Greek islands have been the crossroads of theMediterranean since the time of Homer. Over the centuries,Phoenicians, Athenians, Macedonians, Romans, Byzantines, Venetians,Ottoman Turks, and Italians have ruled the islands, putting theirdistinctive stamp on the food. Aglaia Kremezi, a frequent contributor to GOURMET and aninternational authority on Greek food, spent the past eight yearscollecting the fresh, uncomplicated recipes of the local women, aswell as of fishermen, bakers, and farmers. Like all Mediterraneanfood, these dishes are light and healthful, simple but never plain,and make extensive use of seasonal produce, fresh herbs, and fish.Passed from generation to generation by word of mouth, most havenever before been written down. All translate easily to theAmerican home kitchen: Tomato Patties from Santorini; Spaghettiwith Lobster from Kithira; Braised Lamb with Artichokes from Chios;Greens and Potato Stew from Crete; Spinach, Le

Here is the sequel to the great cooking classic. Each of thenew recipes is worked out step-by-step, with the clarity andprecision that are the essence of the first volume. 5 times as manydrawings as in Vol. I make the clear instructions even more so.

Today, Chef Eric Ripert carries on that tradition with dishessuch as Poached Halibut on Marinated Vegetables, Pan-RoastedGrouper with Wild Mushrooms and Artichokes, and Grilled Salmon withMushroom Vinaigrette. And, of course, there are the desserts forwhich Le Bernardin is also so well known--from ChocolateMillefeuille to Honeyed Pear and Almond Cream Tarts.

Revised edition of the classic cookbook, originally publishedin 1961. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition ofthis title.

The only cookbook that explains how to create authentic Frenchdishes in American kitchens with American foods. Teaches the keytechniques of French cooking, permitting many variations on atheme. Over 100 instructive drawings.

Widely recognized as one of the fathers of New Americancuisine, Jonathan Waxman became a mentor to hundreds of chefs onboth coasts. Here he shows you how to flex your culinary muscleswhile having fun in the kitchen. A Great American Cook presentsWaxman's finest dishes the way he makes them at home. They includethe Red Pepper Pancakes with Corn and Caviar that he created whenhe ran the kitchen of Alice Waters's Chez Panisse, his famousGrilled Chicken with JW Fries, and a homey Pizza with Bacon,Scallions, Parmesan, and Tomato that's a family weeknight favorite.His combinations are simple but unexpected, exuberant but down toearth. Many of the dishes juxtapose contrasting flavors andtextures, pairing cool beef carpaccio with warm potato salad, softcrab cakes with crunchy slaw, or whole wheat pasta with spicyclams. Other recipes, such as Shrimp BLT, Crispy Chicken and GoatCheese Burritos, and Gingerbread with Brandied Plums, arefree-spirited plays on classics. Waxman shows how to producemagnificent food fr

Small, luxurious and just a little bitwicked! With 300 chocolate recipes, there is sustenance enough hereto keep even the most depraved of chocoholics happy.

Does a strong urge to fill up oncarbs sabotage your weight-loss efforts? Are you often tired andirritable, and is there a roll of fat around your middle? Now it’seasier than ever to eat great and lose weight. The MetabolismMiracle Cookbook includes more than 150 quick-and-easy,carb-controlled recipes and menus tailored to each step of TheMetabolism Miracle diet plan. Nearly half of all Americans have “Metabolism B” and unknowinglyoverproduce the fat-gain hormone insulin. These recipes arespecifically formulated to help people with this hidden conditionlose weight, lower blood pressure and cholesterol, decrease risk ofor improve control over diabetes, and increase their energy. From appetizers, soups, and salads to vegetables, entrées, anddesserts ideal for family meals, readers will have no shortage ofdelicious options. Vegetarian and gluten-free choices are alsoincluded.

"Joan Nathan has created a masterful blend of food andculture. She takes her reader on an extraordinary journey throughthe history of the land of Israel and the development of modernIsraeli food. I was delighted to visit all the different ethniccommunities that have contributed to Israeli cuisine, and my mouthwatered just imagining the feast that Joan Nathan describes." --Teddy Kollek, former mayor of Jerusalem In this richly evocative book, Joan Nathan captures the spirit ofIsrael today by exploring its multifaceted cuisine. She delves intothe histories of the people already settled in this nearly barrenland, as well as those who immigrated and helped to quicklytransform it into a country bursting with new produce. It is adramatic and moving saga, interlarded with more than two hundredwonderful recipes that represent all the varied ethnic backgrounds.Every recipe has a story, and through these tales the story ofIsrael emerges. Nathan shows how a typical Israeli menu today might inclu

Perfectly pristine ingredients, combined sensibly and cookedproperly, are the unmistakable hallmarks of the best Italian food.Chef Mario Batali, known to fans far and wide as "Molto Mario" fromhis appearances on television's Food Network and as chef of NewYork's much-loved Pó restaurant, has elevated these simpleprinciples to fine art, creating innovative new fare that paystribute to traditional Italian home cooking in a distinctly modernway. Now, for the first time, more than 200 of his irresistiblerecipes for fresh pastas, sprightly salads, grilled dishes, savoryragus, and many others are gathered in Simple Italian Food, acelebration of the flavors and spirit ofItaly. Mario draws inspiration for his distinctive dishes from the two"villages" that have left their stamps on his cuisine: BorgoCapanne, the tiny hillside village in Northern Italy where he livedand cooked for several years, and New York's Greenwich Village,where he has ready access to bountiful produce and outstandingartisan-made

There is only one Harry’s Bar. Located on Venice’s CalleVallaresso, near the Piazza San Marco, this legendary restauranthas been, for five decades, the meeting place for artists, writers,royalty, maestros, divas, celebrities, the very rich, and lots ofordinary—but very wise—Americans and Europeans. Everyone from theWindsors and the Onassises and the Burtons to Cole Porter; ErnestHemingway, and Joan Crawford has come here for great food, finedrinks, and the incomparable ambiance. Now, to the delight of hislegions of customers, Arrigo Cipriani shares his favorite storiesabout Harry’s Bar and its secrets–and reveals for the first timehis treasured recipes for the restaurant’s most populardishes. Harry’s Bar above all, is a bar. Its distinctive mixed drinks werecreated by its founder, Arrigo’s father, Giuseppe Cipriani, andthey remain the social center of the establishment. Therefore,you’ll find careful instructions for making the world-famousBelini—the frosty, frothy combination of rose-c

For the past twenty years, in their wildly popular newspaperand cooking columns, Sheryl Julian and Julie Riven have beenproviding hundreds of thousands of cooks with recipes they candepend on. Now, in this long-awaited cookbook which is an essentialreference for anyone who wants to get the most out of time in thekitchen, they present 250 of their favorites. From Roast Side ofSalmon to Creamy Chocolate Tart, each dish is straightforward,contemporary, and elegant: home cooking at its best. Julian andRiven have an unerring sense of what busy people need:appetite-provoking nibbles that won't set back dinner preparations;easy meals for the time of day when the cook is most exhausted;impressive but relaxed dinners for company; simple side dishes;slow-cooked suppers served straight from the pot; weekendbreakfasts that leave plenty of time for reading the paper;desserts anyone can master. It's all here in The Way We Cook:Appetizers: Spicy Pecans * Honey-Roasted Chicken Wings * MarinatedShrimp in White Wine Vin

Although Barbara Lynch was born and raised in South Boston,not Tuscany, many critics believe her food rivals the best ofItaly. It has been praised by Bon Appetit, Food and Wine, andGourmet, and many more. Lynch's cuisine is all the more remarkablebecause it is self-taught. In a story straight out of Good WillHunting, she grew up in the turbulent projects of "Southie," wherepetty crime was the only viable way to make a living. But in a homeec class in high school, she discovered her passion. Through a mixof hunger for knowledge, hard work, and raw smarts, she graduallycreated her own distinctive style of cooking, mining Italian andFrench classics for ideas and seasoning them with imagination.The150 recipes in Stir combine sophistication with practicality.Appetizers like baked tomatoes and cheese and crisp, butterybrioche pizzas. Dozens of the artful pastas Lynch is famous for,such as little lasagnas with chicken meatballs, and potato gnocchiwith peas and mushrooms. Lobster rolls with aioli. Chicken wrap

Jewish holidays are defined by food. Yet Jewish cooking isalways changing, encompassing the flavors of the world, embracinglocal culinary traditions of every place in which Jews have livedand adapting them to Jewish observance. This collection, theculmination of Joan Nathan’s decades of gathering Jewish recipesfrom around the world, is a tour through the Jewish holidays astold in food. For each holiday, Nathan presents menus fromdifferent cuisines—Moroccan, Russian, German, and contemporaryAmerican are just a few—that show how the traditions of Jewish foodhave taken on new forms around the world. There are dishes that youwill remember from your mother’s table and dishes that go back tothe Second Temple, family recipes that you thought were lost andother families’ recipes that you have yet to discover. Explainingtheir origins and the holidays that have shaped them, Nathan spicesthese delicious recipes with delightful stories about the peoplewho have kept these traditions alive. Try somet

American chef Jessica Theroux spent a year travelingthroughout Italy, cooking and talking with Italian grandmothers,learning their secrets and listening to their stories. The resultis a charming and authentic collection of recipes, techniques,anecdotes, and photographs that celebrate the rustic andsustainable culinary traditions of Italy’s most experienced homecooks. Cooking with Italian Grandmothers features the histories andmenus of fifteen grandmothers, each of whom welcomed Ms. Therouxinto their kitchens and pantries and shared both their favoritedishes and personal wisdoms. From the dramatic winter shores ifUstica to the blooming hills of Tuscany in spring, readers willjourney through Italy’s most divers regions and seasons, todiscover the country’s most delectable dishes, from the traditionalto the unexpected, and meet the storied women who make them. Part travel diary, part photo essay, part cookbook, Cooking withItalian Grandmothers features over 100 time-honored recipes, from

As the editor of the best-selling culinary icons MarthaStewart and Ina Garten (Barefoot Contessa), as well as such notedfood authorities as Diana Kennedy and Anne Willan, Roy Finamoreshaped many of the most popular and accessible cookbooks of ourtime. Finamore himself began cooking as a young boy, learning fromhis mother and Italian grandmother. Working alongside chefs tostreamline their recipes for the home cook, he has earned areputation as a stylish simplifier. In Tasty, he brings to bear thelessons from more than a decade spent at the pinnacle of the foodworld. The 200 deftly easy, unpretentious recipes show theinfluence of French and Italian traditions and are accompanied bymany tips and techniques from Finamore's abundant experience in thekitchen. Tasty offers ample testimony to the idea that a mealdoesn't need to be a showoff event to be uncommonly good.

Some of the most inspired (and acclaimed) Italian food in thecountry is served at Babbo Ristorante e Enoteca, Mario Batali’sflagship restaurant in the heart of New York City’s GreenwichVillage. Diners in this converted town house have come to expectinnovative flavors and artful presentations that make the most ofseasonal, local, and artisanal ingredients—all with a sensibilitythat is distinctly Italian. Now home cooks can re-create theseshowstopping dishes, just as they are served at the restaurant, towin raves of their own. The Babbo Cookbook is Mario’s biggest yet, filled with 150recipes that have redefined contemporary Italian cooking. Here forthe first time he shares such signature dishes as Mint Love Letterswith Spicy Lamb Sausage and Beef Cheek Ravioli, all showcasing hisunparalleled ability to reinterpret the Italian culinary traditionin a completely original way. Recipes for dozens of Babbo’srenowned antipasti, many based on fresh seasonal produce, arefollowed by an alluring col

There could be no more festive way to introduce Jewishchildren to their Jewish heritage than through the food associatedwith the holidays. And no better person to do it than Joan Nathan,whose great enthusiasm and knowledge have gained her a nationalreputation as the maven of the Jewish kitchen. Here are seventy child-centered recipes and cooking activitiesfrom around the world in which the entire family can participate.Covering the ten major holidays, each of the activities has adifferent focus--such as Eastern Europe, Biblical Israel,contemporary America--and together they present a vast array offoods, flavors, and ideas. The recipes are old and new, traditionaland novel--everything from hamantashen to pretzel bagels, chickensoup with matzah balls to matzah pizza, cheese blintzes tovegetarian chopped liver, hallah to halvah, fruit kugel to Persianpomegranate punch. First published in paperback in l988, The Children's JewishHoliday Kitchen has now been redesigned and contains 20 additionald

Nestled in the blue mists of Tennessee's Smoky Mountains, the10,000-acre bucolic refuge of Blackberry Farm houses a top-ratedsmall inn with one of the premier farm-to-table restaurants in thecountry. This sumptuous cookbook offers a collection ofrecipes that are as inspired by the traditional rustic cooking ofthe mountainous south as they are by a fresh, contemporary,artistic sensibility. Some of the dishes are robust, others areastonishingly light, all are full of heart and surprise and flavor— and all are well within the reach of the home cook. California has the French Laundry, Virginia has the Inn at LittleWashington, and Tennessee has Blackberry Farm, where theindulgences of a luxury inn are woven together with odes to nature— fly-fishing, hiking, foraging, bird watching, and heirloomgardening — to create a new way of looking at the world, away in which anything seems possible. This is particularly true at the Inn's table and in itsaward-winning wine cellar. To the farm's mast

An incomparable culinary treasury: the definitive guide toFrench cooking for the way we live now, from the man the GaultMillau guide has proclaimed “Chef of the Century.” Jo?l Robuchon's restaurant empire stretches from Paris to NewYork, Las Vegas to Tokyo, London to Hong Kong. He holds moreMichelin stars than any other chef. Now this great master gives ushis supremely authoritative renditions of virtually the entireFrench culinary repertoire, adapted for the home cook and thecontemporary palate. Here are more than 800 precise, easy-to-follow, step-by-steprecipes, including Robuchon's updated versions of greatclassics—Pot-au-Feu, Sole Meunière, Cherry Custard Tart—as well asdozens of less well-known but equally scrumptious salads, roasts,gratins, and stews. Here, too, are a surprising variety of regionalspecialties (star turns like Aristide Couteaux's variation on HareRoyale) and such essential favorites as scrambled eggs. Emphasizingquality ingredients and the brilliant but simple

One of the most respected chefs in the country, Paul Bertolliearns glowing praise for the food at California’s renowned Olivetorestaurant. Now he shares his most personal thoughts about cookingin his long-awaited book, Cooking by Hand. In this groundbreakingcollection of essays and recipes, Bertolli evocatively explores thephilosophy behind the food that Molly O’Neill of the New York Timesdescribed as “deceptively simple, [with] favors clean, deep, andlayered more profusely than a mille-feuille.” From “Twelve Ways of Looking at Tomatoes” to Italian salumi in “TheWhole Hog,” Bertolli explores his favorite foods with the vividnessof a natural writer and the instincts of a superlative chef.Scattered throughout are more than 140 recipes remarkable for theirclarity, simplicity, and seductive appeal, from Salad of BitterGreens, Walnuts, Tesa, and Parmigiano and Chilled Shellfish withSalsa Verde to Short Ribs Agrodolce and Tagliolini Pasta with Crab.Unforgettable desserts, such as Semifreddo of Peac

"Nothing beats the sweet aroma of freshty baked bread at thecrack of dawn, and oneof my indutgent pteasures is sitting downwitha coffee and biting into a sweet, crisp pastry straight out of theoven.

To read this book is not just to learn the proper preparationfor lasagna and risotto, but also to encounter the Medicis, towitness an opulent banquet for two, and to learn the fablessurrounding the origin of tortellini.

What happens when a four-star chef and a culinary minimalistdecide to join forces to create something different? They invent anew style that adapts to every occasion and every level of cookingexpertise. Simple to Spectacular introduces a unique conceptdeveloped by one of the world's top chefs, Jean-GeorgesVongerichten, and Mark Bittman, author of How to Cook Everythingand the New York Times's hugely popular column "The Minimalist."Ever since their award-winning collaboration on Jean-Georges:Cooking at Home with a Four-Star Chef, the acclaimed duo has beencooking up a repertoire of new dishes that can be prepared in anyof five progressively sophisticated ways. Simple to Spectacular features a total of 250 recipes in 50groups. Each group begins with a simple, elegant recipe--a fewingredients combined for maximum effect--followed by fullydetailed, increasingly elaborate variations. For example, a recipefor Grilled Shrimp with Thyme and Lemon leads to Grilled Shrimp andZucchini on Rosemary Skewers, G