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Jean Georges: Cooking at Home with a Four-Star Chef
by Jean Georges Vongerichten, Mark Bittman
ISBN-10: 076790155X
ISBN-13: 9780767901550
ISBN-13: 9780767901550
Region: USA
Publisher: Broadway
Publication Date: September, 1998
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About Jean Georges: Cooking at Home with a Four-Star Chef
Publisher Web Link: http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/broadway-books/
The cooking of Jean-Georges Vongerichten - sophisticated yet startlingly uncomplicated, hinting at French and Asian influences yet entirely original - has earned endless raves and accolades from every quarter. Why? Because Vongerichten has invented a culinary style that is highly creative and intensely flavorful but uses few ingredients and is remarkably simple.
Now, Jean-Georges, with award-winning coauthor Mark Bittman, brings this extraordinary cuisine to the home kitchen. There are no mile-long lists of instructions, the recipes use readily available ingredients, and many can be prepared in thirty minutes or less. Some of the recipes are taken directly from the kitchens of Vongerichten’s three restaurants - Jean Georges, Vong, and JoJo. They not only sound simple but are simple - and irresistible. Fennel and Apple Salad with Juniper. 10-minute Green Gazpacho. Sautéed Chicken with Green Olives and Cilantro. Warm, Soft Chocolate Cake.
Jean-Georges’s signature dishes are all here and made easy for the home cook. Scallops and Cauliflower with Caper-Raisin Sauce. Chicken Soup with Coconut Milk and Lemongrass. Salmon and Potato Crisps. Looking for simple, midweek fare? Try the quickly-put-together Savoy Slaw with Citrus, Ginger, and Mustard and the Dill-Stuffed Shrimp with Baked Lemon. For weekend entertaining, start with Beet and Ginger Salad, move on to the Gently Cooked Salmon with Mashed Potatoes, and dazzle your guests with the spectacular Apple Confit.
This long-awaited cookbook makes it easy to turn your kitchen into a four-star restaurant. All it takes is the inspired recipes and innovative techniques of Jean-Georges.
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About Jean Georges Vongerichten
Author Web Link: http://www.jean-georges.com/
The first thing you should know about me is that I’m a country boy at heart. I grew up on a farm in Alsace where my mother and grandmother taught me to eat and cook according to the seasons. It was there I fell in love with food—fresh herbs and vegetables and the warmth of our local Franco-German flavors. Though I’ve been living an urban life since 1973, I’m still most at home in the country.
Since my departure from Alsace, I’ve lived, trained, and cooked all over France, in Bangkok, Singapore, Hong Kong, Boston, and New York. Now, I’m rooted in New York, in my little Perry Street neighborhood and in the hills of Westchester County. But I also feel at home in my other restaurants around the world.
Wherever I go, I always want to cook both globally and locally. If you’ve been to my restaurants, you’ve probably guessed that I love Asian flavors. My first trip to the open-air market in Bangkok remains one of my most influential culinary experiences, and I’ve since adopted those herbs and spices as my own. Everything I cook has to have a little heat. (Even at home, my wife, who’s Korean-American, keeps our fridge stocked with kimchi.)
As for life outside the kitchen, I enjoy relaxing with my family. In the country, I often go fishing in my little pond and, while the weather’s still nice, chop wood for the fireplace. In the city, I take my chefs out to eat after work and catch up with friends when we’re cooking together for charity events. The greenmarket is one of my favorite places to stroll. I guess you can see that I love food. It’s my passion. It’s my life.
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About Mark Bittman
Author Web Link: http://www.markbittman.com/
I’m not a chef, and I never have been. And though I’ve cooked with some of the best-known chefs in the world, I’ve never had formal training, and I’ve never worked in a restaurant. None of which has gotten in the way of my mission to get people cooking simply, comfortably, and well.
I’ve been an avid home cook since 1968, a journalist for nearly as long (longer if you count my high school yearbook!) and a professional food writer since 1980. In 1987 I became the senior writer (later editor) ofCook’s (the predecessor of Cook’s Illustrated), and in 1990 I began writing for The New York Times. Within the next few years I’d writtenHow to Cook Everything and begun to write my weekly column, “The Minimalist.”
Since then the books have come steadily, and How to Cook Everythinghas been completely revised for its tenth birthday. The companion volume, How to Cook Everything Vegetarian (inspired by my realization that the world will inevitably move in the lessmeatarian direction, and why not?), led me to write the just-published (and happily well-received) Food Matters, a look at the links among eating too much meat, obesity, global warming, and other nasty features of modern life. (It has good recipes, too.)
I’m not only in print: We’ve been making weekly videos of “The Minimalist” for a few years now, you can catch me on the Today Show every couple of weeks, and I hosted a public television series based onHow to Cook Everything and another of my bigger books, The Best Recipes in the World. This past year I traveled to Spain with a couple of well-known cronies and taped Spain: On the Road Again, another series for public television.
What’s next? Take a look at my schedule, and feel free to drop me a note. You can also check out a recent article about what I’m up to from theNew York Observer. (www.markbittman.com)
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