Author: Nicole Aloni
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781557883520
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
During almost two decades of catering everything from the Academy Awards to a fete for Queen Elizabeth to an intimate dinner for Julia Child to a “Roller-Disco” Bat Mitzvah, Nicole Aloni has learned more than a few tricks-of-the-trade. And whether you’re planning your umpteenth dinner for twelve, or you’ve only just figured out that there’s a kitchen in your apartment, Secrets From a Caterer’s Kitchen is the manual on entertaining. This comprehensive, accessible and easy-to-use book offers insider tips and guidance about: Menu preparation for both large and small gatherings Finding special locations for events Decorating advice for “theme” festivities Creating invitations Maintaining a budget Over 125 tried-and-true party recipes Whether it’s a candlelight dinner, a kid’s birthday party, or a holiday extravaganza, you can put on a show like a pro—and keep your guests guessing—with Secrets from a Caterer’s Kitchen!
Secrets from a Caterer's Kitchen
Author: Nicole Aloni
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781557883520
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
During almost two decades of catering everything from the Academy Awards to a fete for Queen Elizabeth to an intimate dinner for Julia Child to a “Roller-Disco” Bat Mitzvah, Nicole Aloni has learned more than a few tricks-of-the-trade. And whether you’re planning your umpteenth dinner for twelve, or you’ve only just figured out that there’s a kitchen in your apartment, Secrets From a Caterer’s Kitchen is the manual on entertaining. This comprehensive, accessible and easy-to-use book offers insider tips and guidance about: Menu preparation for both large and small gatherings Finding special locations for events Decorating advice for “theme” festivities Creating invitations Maintaining a budget Over 125 tried-and-true party recipes Whether it’s a candlelight dinner, a kid’s birthday party, or a holiday extravaganza, you can put on a show like a pro—and keep your guests guessing—with Secrets from a Caterer’s Kitchen!
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781557883520
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
During almost two decades of catering everything from the Academy Awards to a fete for Queen Elizabeth to an intimate dinner for Julia Child to a “Roller-Disco” Bat Mitzvah, Nicole Aloni has learned more than a few tricks-of-the-trade. And whether you’re planning your umpteenth dinner for twelve, or you’ve only just figured out that there’s a kitchen in your apartment, Secrets From a Caterer’s Kitchen is the manual on entertaining. This comprehensive, accessible and easy-to-use book offers insider tips and guidance about: Menu preparation for both large and small gatherings Finding special locations for events Decorating advice for “theme” festivities Creating invitations Maintaining a budget Over 125 tried-and-true party recipes Whether it’s a candlelight dinner, a kid’s birthday party, or a holiday extravaganza, you can put on a show like a pro—and keep your guests guessing—with Secrets from a Caterer’s Kitchen!
12,167 Kitchen and Cooking Secrets
Author: Susan Sampson
Publisher: Robert Rose
ISBN: 9780778802228
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A multitude of ideas, tips and techniuqes to reward any serious cook.
Publisher: Robert Rose
ISBN: 9780778802228
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A multitude of ideas, tips and techniuqes to reward any serious cook.
Secrets of a Professional Kitchen
Author: Aanal Kotak
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1685233198
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Eating out or ordering food is one of the many guilty pleasures we all like to indulge in. So, what is it about restaurant food that we are all so hooked onto it? Why can’t we recreate the same recipes at home? Well, now you can with Secrets of a Professional Kitchen by Aanal Kotak. This cookbook is a gift to all home cooks who enjoy cooking and want to flaunt their skills by dishing out restaurant style food at home. The author gives you a peek into professional kitchens and their best kept secrets. The easy-to-follow recipes that range from across the globe will help you create food experiences sitting in the comfort of your home. The pro tips that accompany each recipe will make sure that you don’t go wrong at any step. In an Instagrammable world, food is best shared through pictures. Keeping that in mind, each recipe in the book is elegantly plated and photographed just for you. Secrets of a Professional Kitchen will transform every home cook into a Chef and every home kitchen into a Professional kitchen. Reviews: “Eating out at restaurants feels good. But cooking restaurant style food in your home kitchen feels better! And this book is all about it ~ insider tips, tricks, hacks and secrets straight from a professional kitchen to your home kitchen. Aanal Kotak, a successful TV host and restauranteur knows it best!” - Masterchef Nikita Gandhi “I believe that passion is the key ingredient to being a good chef. I have seen this passion reflect in all facets of Aanal’s career. She always excels in whatever she lays her hand on and this cookbook is no exception. It reveals all the top secrets about cooking restaurant style food that chefs usually don’t share. You can blindly follow these recipes at home and get ready to be showered with tons of compliments! My blessings and best wishes to Aanal on this new role as author.” - Mrs. Hina Gautam (Senior Culinary Expert - Colors Gujarati)
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1685233198
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Eating out or ordering food is one of the many guilty pleasures we all like to indulge in. So, what is it about restaurant food that we are all so hooked onto it? Why can’t we recreate the same recipes at home? Well, now you can with Secrets of a Professional Kitchen by Aanal Kotak. This cookbook is a gift to all home cooks who enjoy cooking and want to flaunt their skills by dishing out restaurant style food at home. The author gives you a peek into professional kitchens and their best kept secrets. The easy-to-follow recipes that range from across the globe will help you create food experiences sitting in the comfort of your home. The pro tips that accompany each recipe will make sure that you don’t go wrong at any step. In an Instagrammable world, food is best shared through pictures. Keeping that in mind, each recipe in the book is elegantly plated and photographed just for you. Secrets of a Professional Kitchen will transform every home cook into a Chef and every home kitchen into a Professional kitchen. Reviews: “Eating out at restaurants feels good. But cooking restaurant style food in your home kitchen feels better! And this book is all about it ~ insider tips, tricks, hacks and secrets straight from a professional kitchen to your home kitchen. Aanal Kotak, a successful TV host and restauranteur knows it best!” - Masterchef Nikita Gandhi “I believe that passion is the key ingredient to being a good chef. I have seen this passion reflect in all facets of Aanal’s career. She always excels in whatever she lays her hand on and this cookbook is no exception. It reveals all the top secrets about cooking restaurant style food that chefs usually don’t share. You can blindly follow these recipes at home and get ready to be showered with tons of compliments! My blessings and best wishes to Aanal on this new role as author.” - Mrs. Hina Gautam (Senior Culinary Expert - Colors Gujarati)
Work Clean
Author: Dan Charnas
Publisher: Rodale
ISBN: 1623365929
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The first organizational book inspired by the culinary world, taking mise-en-place outside the kitchen. Every day, chefs across the globe churn out enormous amounts of high-quality work with efficiency using a system called mise-en-place--a French culinary term that means “putting in place” and signifies an entire lifestyle of readiness and engagement. In Work Clean, Dan Charnas reveals how to apply mise-en-place outside the kitchen, in any kind of work. Culled from dozens of interviews with culinary professionals and executives, including world-renowned chefs like Thomas Keller and Alfred Portale, this essential guide offers a simple system to focus your actions and accomplish your work. Charnas spells out the 10 major principles of mise-en-place for chefs and non chefs alike: (1) planning is prime; (2) arranging spaces and perfecting movements; (3) cleaning as you go; (4) making first moves; (5) finishing actions; (6) slowing down to speed up; (7) call and callback; (8) open ears and eyes; (9) inspect and correct; (10) total utilization. This journey into the world of chefs and cooks shows you how each principle works in the kitchen, office, home, and virtually any other setting.
Publisher: Rodale
ISBN: 1623365929
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The first organizational book inspired by the culinary world, taking mise-en-place outside the kitchen. Every day, chefs across the globe churn out enormous amounts of high-quality work with efficiency using a system called mise-en-place--a French culinary term that means “putting in place” and signifies an entire lifestyle of readiness and engagement. In Work Clean, Dan Charnas reveals how to apply mise-en-place outside the kitchen, in any kind of work. Culled from dozens of interviews with culinary professionals and executives, including world-renowned chefs like Thomas Keller and Alfred Portale, this essential guide offers a simple system to focus your actions and accomplish your work. Charnas spells out the 10 major principles of mise-en-place for chefs and non chefs alike: (1) planning is prime; (2) arranging spaces and perfecting movements; (3) cleaning as you go; (4) making first moves; (5) finishing actions; (6) slowing down to speed up; (7) call and callback; (8) open ears and eyes; (9) inspect and correct; (10) total utilization. This journey into the world of chefs and cooks shows you how each principle works in the kitchen, office, home, and virtually any other setting.
Secrets of the Best Chefs
Author: Adam Roberts
Publisher: Artisan Books
ISBN: 1579654398
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Learn to cook from the best chefs in America Some people say you can only learn to cook by doing. So Adam Roberts, creator of the award-winning blog The Amateur Gourmet, set out to cook in 50 of America's best kitchens to figure out how any average Joe or Jane can cook like a seasoned pro. From Alice Waters's garden to José Andrés's home kitchen, it was a journey peppered with rock-star chefs and dedicated home cooks unified by a common passion, one that Roberts understands deeply and transfers to the reader with flair, thoughtfulness, and good humor: a love and appreciation of cooking. Roberts adapts recipes from Hugh Acheson, Lidia Bastianich, Roy Choi, Harold Dieterle, Sara Moulton, and more. The culmination of that journey is a cookbook filled with lessons, tips, and tricks from the most admired chefs in America, including how to properly dress a salad, bake a no-fail piecrust, make light and airy pasta, and stir-fry in a wok, plus how to improve your knife skills, eliminate wasteful food practices, and create recipes of your very own. Most important, Roberts has adapted 150 of the chefs' signature recipes into totally doable dishes for the home cook. Now anyone can learn to cook like a pro!
Publisher: Artisan Books
ISBN: 1579654398
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Learn to cook from the best chefs in America Some people say you can only learn to cook by doing. So Adam Roberts, creator of the award-winning blog The Amateur Gourmet, set out to cook in 50 of America's best kitchens to figure out how any average Joe or Jane can cook like a seasoned pro. From Alice Waters's garden to José Andrés's home kitchen, it was a journey peppered with rock-star chefs and dedicated home cooks unified by a common passion, one that Roberts understands deeply and transfers to the reader with flair, thoughtfulness, and good humor: a love and appreciation of cooking. Roberts adapts recipes from Hugh Acheson, Lidia Bastianich, Roy Choi, Harold Dieterle, Sara Moulton, and more. The culmination of that journey is a cookbook filled with lessons, tips, and tricks from the most admired chefs in America, including how to properly dress a salad, bake a no-fail piecrust, make light and airy pasta, and stir-fry in a wok, plus how to improve your knife skills, eliminate wasteful food practices, and create recipes of your very own. Most important, Roberts has adapted 150 of the chefs' signature recipes into totally doable dishes for the home cook. Now anyone can learn to cook like a pro!
Kitchen Confidential
Author: Anthony Bourdain
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408845040
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
After twenty-five years of 'sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine', chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain has decided to tell all. From his first oyster in the Gironde to his lowly position as a dishwasher in a honky-tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown; from the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop the Rockefeller Center to drug dealers in the East Village, from Tokyo to Paris and back to New York again, Bourdain's tales of the kitchen are as passionate as they are unpredictable, as shocking as they are funny.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408845040
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
After twenty-five years of 'sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine', chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain has decided to tell all. From his first oyster in the Gironde to his lowly position as a dishwasher in a honky-tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown; from the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop the Rockefeller Center to drug dealers in the East Village, from Tokyo to Paris and back to New York again, Bourdain's tales of the kitchen are as passionate as they are unpredictable, as shocking as they are funny.
Essential Tools, Tips & Techniques for the Home Cook
Author: Michelle Doll
Publisher: Page Street Publishing
ISBN: 1624145507
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Learn the Secrets to Great Cooking without Going to Cooking School Reaching your full culinary potential takes more than just starting with high-quality ingredients and following a solid recipe. You also need to learn proper technique, master essential kitchen tools and know the secrets to great cooking that all chefs learn in culinary school. Chef Michelle Doll shines new light on familiar tools such as rolling pins, sheet pans, skillets, Dutch ovens, blenders, mixers, pressure cookers and more in this comprehensive, readable and entertaining guide. Her exceptional recipes demonstrate these techniques in action. Learn why a tapered French rolling pin is the best tool for rolling out dough, and then use it to make the flakiest pastry for Prime Time Fruit Galette. Follow Michelle as she delves into what she calls the stovetop–sauté pan matrix and make Better Than Take-Out Teriyaki Chicken that will have you taking your favorite Chinese restaurant off of speed dial. You’ll also learn some surprising techniques for using your kitchen tools in new ways, making tender Grape Shallot Focaccia in a cast-iron skillet, Peanut Butter Jelly Quick Bread in a blender and Slow and Easy French Onion Soup in a Dutch oven (you won’t be tied to the stovetop stirring caramelized onions every five minutes—genius!). With the perfect blend of fresh kitchen science and delicious examples of that science in action, this book is a must-read for kitchen geeks and everyday home cooks alike!
Publisher: Page Street Publishing
ISBN: 1624145507
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Learn the Secrets to Great Cooking without Going to Cooking School Reaching your full culinary potential takes more than just starting with high-quality ingredients and following a solid recipe. You also need to learn proper technique, master essential kitchen tools and know the secrets to great cooking that all chefs learn in culinary school. Chef Michelle Doll shines new light on familiar tools such as rolling pins, sheet pans, skillets, Dutch ovens, blenders, mixers, pressure cookers and more in this comprehensive, readable and entertaining guide. Her exceptional recipes demonstrate these techniques in action. Learn why a tapered French rolling pin is the best tool for rolling out dough, and then use it to make the flakiest pastry for Prime Time Fruit Galette. Follow Michelle as she delves into what she calls the stovetop–sauté pan matrix and make Better Than Take-Out Teriyaki Chicken that will have you taking your favorite Chinese restaurant off of speed dial. You’ll also learn some surprising techniques for using your kitchen tools in new ways, making tender Grape Shallot Focaccia in a cast-iron skillet, Peanut Butter Jelly Quick Bread in a blender and Slow and Easy French Onion Soup in a Dutch oven (you won’t be tied to the stovetop stirring caramelized onions every five minutes—genius!). With the perfect blend of fresh kitchen science and delicious examples of that science in action, this book is a must-read for kitchen geeks and everyday home cooks alike!
Kitchen on Fire!
Author: Olivier Said
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
ISBN: 0738214531
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
From the owners of Berkeley's famed Kitchen on Fire! cooking school comes an illustrated, step-by-step guide to becoming an excellent home chef.
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
ISBN: 0738214531
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
From the owners of Berkeley's famed Kitchen on Fire! cooking school comes an illustrated, step-by-step guide to becoming an excellent home chef.
Secrets from the la Varenne Kitchen
Author: Anne Willan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781940611150
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Based on the book given to all students at aEcole de cuisine La Varenne: La Varenne basic recipes (1978)"--T.p. verso.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781940611150
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Based on the book given to all students at aEcole de cuisine La Varenne: La Varenne basic recipes (1978)"--T.p. verso.
Dining Out
Author: Andrew Dornenburg
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
ISBN:
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
An insider's view of the restaurant business, including behind-the-scenes looks, writing reviews of restaurants, details on specific foods, and favorite restaurants as chosen by food critics.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
ISBN:
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
An insider's view of the restaurant business, including behind-the-scenes looks, writing reviews of restaurants, details on specific foods, and favorite restaurants as chosen by food critics.