Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Robbins, Missy; King, Carrie; Sung, Evan |
| Publisher: | Rizzoli |
| Date: | 9/19/2017 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Condition: | NEW |
FOREWORD INDIES Book of the Year Awards — 2017 BRONZE Winner for Cooking
In her first cookbook, the acclaimed chef, winner of a 2018 James Beard Award for Best Chef: New York City, sharesher favorite cook-at-home recipes, inspired by her year off fromprofessional cooking.
Missy Robbins had been on an upwardtrajectory through the ranks of chefdom, racking up accolades in Chicagoat Spiaggia and in New York as the executive chef of A Voce Madison andA Voce Columbus, both of which earned Michelin stars under herleadership. But success in the grueling world of restaurant cooking tooka toll, in sacrifices of time, health, and relationships. So in 2013Robbins hung up the title of executive chef to explore life outside ofthe restaurant.
This book is a result of that year off: Acollection of recipes that Robbins created in her tiny West Villagekitchen while she rediscovered life outside of the restaurant dishes, organized around essays narrating her year off, will helpreaders fall in love with cooking again, as Robbins did. In addition topasta and the Italian-inspired dishes that Robbins is known for, thereare her childhood favorites, such as chicken soup with ricottadumplings, and breakfast, vegetable, and salad recipes, resulting fromRobbins’s commitment to healthier eating habits; there is also a chapterof Asian recipes, inspired by a long-wished-for trip to Vietnam andThailand. Intimate, engaging, and filled with Robbins’s signaturethoughtful, ingredient-driven cooking, this cookbook gives readers thesecrets to delicious and varied home cooking within a poignant story ofself-discovery.
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