Craft of Cooking: Notes and Recipes from a Restaurant Kitchen: A Cookbook-Fast Shipping

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Tom Colicchio, chef/co-owner of New York’s acclaimed Gramercy Tavern, offers inspriation to cooks of any skill level with 140 simple recipes and technical tips.

Realizingthat his own culinary style had grown increasingly unembellished, and gambling thatNew York diners were experiencing that same kind of culinary fatigue (brought onby too much “fancy food”), Colicchio set out to prove that the finest food didn’thave to be the most in March 2001 he opened a new restaurant, Craft, that offered dinerssimple, soulful dishes centered around single ingredients that went on to shake upmany people’s ideas of what “restaurant food” should be like.

Craft of Cooking leadsyou through Colicchio’s thought process in choosing raw materials—like what to lookfor in fresh fish, or how to choose the perfect mushroom—to show that good food isavailable to anyone with access to a good supermarket, farm stand, or gourmet book also features “Day-in-the-Life-of-Craft” portraits, which offer a fascinating,behind-the-scenes glimpse at areas of the restaurant beyond the dining allow you to peer into the fast-paced prep kitchen, to witness thehigh drama of reservations, and to get a taste of the humor and empathy necessaryto serve New York’s colorful visitors and foodies.

Using Tom’s straightforwardand friendly voice, Craft of Cooking offers recipes suited to any purpose—from aquick family meal to a festive dinner party for twelve.