Bold: A Cookbook of Big Flavors - Softcover

Susanna Hoffman

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43 ratings by Goodreads

9780761139614: Bold: A Cookbook of Big Flavors

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761139613 ISBN 13: 9780761139614

Publisher: Workman, 2014

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BOLD is a sweeping, delicious collection of recipes inspired by the cultures that shapped the American identity-and palate. From the familiar (Northern Italian) to the more unexpected (North African), they're all here: Mexican, French, German, Greek, Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Scandinavian and more. With an exciting bold design to match the exuberant flavours of the featured recipes.

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Review:

"Genuinely fascinating."
--The New York Times Book Review

"Although every cookbook proclaims it is new, not that many really are. I'm always on the lookout for truly innovative flavor combinations, the unfussy yet deft marriage of old ingredients in new ways. "Bold: A Cookbook of Big Flavors," by former Chez Panisse chefs Susanna Hoffman and Victoria Wise, is just that: page after page of recipes where citruses, nuts, greens, spices get juggled into new constellations, each one a winner.

If that weren't enough, the book is jammed with history and context -- how the Coke bottle got its shape, the history of Walla Walla onions, why we call it an "eggplant." Within half an hour of picking it up, I'd studded "Bold" with a hundred stickies. I was in love."
--The Boston Globe, T. Susan Chang

"To the online chatter who took umbrage at my hesitancy to endorse a cola-glazed turkey for the holidays: My bad.

This preparation has helped me see the light. It's a little magic: A quick reduction of the cola becomes a not-too-sweet sauce, enhanced with a touch of anise."
--The Washington Post, Bonnie Benwick

"There's a playfulness in the way the ingredients are combined and flavors are layered on that I love. It makes something as common as lasagna or a weeknight steak sound fresh and new again with a few unexpected ingredients.

This is also the kind of cookbook that makes for fun reading while you're waiting for the water to boil or the oven to heat. There are lots of fun side bars and historical anecdotes sprinkled liberally throughout the book."
--TheKitchn.com

"Seriously tasty, yet straightforward dishes."
--Natural Health magazine

"The "Bold" name is clearly indicative of the kinds of recipes you will find inside: Pork Gyros With Radish Tzatziki; Buffalo Steaks With Peppercorn Puree; Sweet and Sour Leeks With Lemon and Honey."
--The Houston Chronicle

"Playful, flavorful and abundant all-American dishes made with fresh and wholesome ingredients... "Bold" "venerates traditional foods that Americans have long prepared... The recipes are instantly engaging, with unusual flavor combinations."
--The Star Ledger

"When I spotted this recipe in the new cookbook "Bold" last winter, I made a note to myself to hang on to it until spring, when the green-garlic window briefly opens."
--The Charlotte Observer

"A joyous celebration of American fusion."
--Book Page

About the Author:

Susanna Hoffman was a co-owner, sous chef, and ma tre d' of Chez Panisse, where she met Victoria Wise. She is the author, most recently, of The Olive and the Caper, and lives in Telluride, Colorado. Victoria Wise was the first chef at Chez Panisse and went on to become chef/owner of Berkeley's Pig-by-the-Tail and co-owner with Susanna Hoffman of Oakland's Good & Plenty Caf . Her most recent Workman book was The Smith & Hawken Gardeners' Community Cookbook. She lives in Oakland, California.

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