Customer Review: Wonderful cookbook. Bought it as a Christmas gift for my daughter. She was really pleased. She is really into the culinary arts and said this was the "best of the best".
Customer Review: By all accounts, this should be a lousy book. The life story of a middle-aged, former substance-abusing, self-described SOB and good-but-not-great chef. In the hands of most people, this would be a rambling, uninteresting memoir that would never see the light of day. The fact that Bourdain pulls it... more info
Customer Review: I got this book almost two years ago and it's great. A lot of standard recipes and techniques for the home cook. Almost everything I've made has been good, a few recipes were great (German Apple Pancakes comes to mind). It has almost every basis American recipe you can thing of, plus a few "ethnic"... more info
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Customer Review: The best and most unique feature of this cookbook is that it describes the basic ingredients of food full spectrum: from a very basic level up to an advanced understanding. In an almost textbook-like manner, it details the anatomy of different cuts of meat (with full color photos!) and teaches you... more info
Customer Review: This book is great to use as a reference tool. The author departs both, scientific insight as to "how and why" things are in the cooking world and practical recipes with which to experiment using her tips. I highly recommend this book for beginners to intermediate level cooks.
Customer Review: I love this cookbook and I've used it at least weekly since I got it, about 10 years ago. Just tonight, I made the recipe for potato pancakes (to go with his sweet-and-sour brisket recipe from NYT). And, yes, it was a pretty simple recipe: grated potatoes and onion, eggs, matzoh meal, salt and... more info
Customer Review: The wife and I used this book when we registered for our wedding. It was perfect in helping us decide what was really necessary and what was junk that would clutter out kitchen. I highly recommend this book for learning about different types of cooking tools.
Customer Review: I have already made three recipes from this book and they were all delicious and perfectly seasoned. very easy to follow and very clear instructions.
Customer Review: Lots of great recipes and practical advice for making fermented foods work in your kitchen.
Any mentions to his orientation and living situation are made in passing and do not make much difference to the book. If he had thanked his wife and kids instead, nobody would have noticed.
