Made in America-Our Best Chefs Reinvent Comfort Food

Lucy Lean

ISBN 10: 1599621010 / ISBN 13: 9781599621012

Published by Welcome Books, New York, 2011

About this Item

" A celebration of the contemporary American food landscape.by some of this nation's finest and most influential chefs." Introduction by Joseph Bastianich. Signed and warmly inscribed by Lucy Lean. Near Fine,in Near Fine, Un-Clipped D. J. Size: Tall 8vo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Made in America-Our Best Chefs Reinvent Comfort Food
• Publisher: Welcome Books, New York
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1599621010
• ISBN 13: 9781599621012
• Binding: Glossy Paper Boards
• Edition: 1st American Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Yes

About this title

Synopsis

Made in America: Our Best Chefs Reinvent Comfort Food, features updated classic recipes from the most innovative and accomplished chefs working today.

Inspired by turn-of-the-20th century regional American cookbooks, Lucy Lean, former editor ofedible LA, has delved through thousands of traditional recipes to define the 100 that best represent America’s culinary legacy, and challenged today’s master chefs to deconstruct and rebuild them in entirely original ways. The result is the ultimate contemporary comfort food bible for the home cook and armchair food lover.

Lean has traveled America, photographing and interviewing master chefs, and collecting recipes—many of which have never been published before or were created especially for this book. Each recipe is enhanced with an introduction that includes the background and origin of the dish and a unique profile of the chef who has undertaken it, as well as sumptuous photographs of the dish, chef, and restaurant.

Representing the entire United States, chefs have been selected for their accomplishments, talent, and focus on local and sustainable cooking. From Ludo Lefebvre’s Duck-Fat-Fried Chicken with Piquillos Ketchup to Alain Ducasse’s Gratinéed French Onion Soup to Mario Batali’s Pappardelle Bolognese to John Besh’s Jumbo Louisiana Shrimp to April Bloomfield’s Spicy Ginger Whoopie Pies,Made in America showcases our favorite dishes as conceived by our finest chefs.

A selection of the Good Cook Book Club.

About the Author

LUCY LEAN is the former editor of edible Los Angeles, a quarterly magazine that explores local food news and issues, a food judge for the Gordon Ramsay Fox hit TV showMasterchef (seasons 1 and 2), a charter contributor to the food and wine culture websiteZester Daily, and contributor to LA Weekly and Meatpaper magazine. She lives in Hollywood Hills, California, with her husband (son
of Chef Jean-Jacques Rachou of La Côte Basque) and two children, where she blogs their culinary adventures on her website, LadlesandJellyspoons.com.

JOSEPH BASTIANICH co-owns, with Mario Batali and Lidia Bastianich, twenty of America’s most acclained restaurants, is co-founder of Eataly New York, and operates four wineries. Bastianich has authored Vino Italiano and Grandi Vini. He’s a host and judge on Fox’s MasterChef, a contributor to NBC’s Today Show and a recipeint of the James Beard Foundation’s Outstanding Restaurateur Award and Outstanding Award Wine and Spirits Professional.