Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #190597 in Books
• Published on: 1997-09-19
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 255 pages

Synopsis
Charts the author's evolution as a chef, and contains his views on selecting, cooking and presenting food. In this book, Nico Ladenis explains how to follow his recipes and also why.

Customer Reviews

These recipes will make you god of the stove
I buy recipe books so I can cook meals which will astound my friends and family - and this book has so far given me 100% satisfaction. The recipes here can be made by anyone with a decently equiped kitchen and a little amateur experience at the stove - don't have to have access to corn-fed capons or white truffles. What you get is years of arguably a cooking genius's experience distilled into a few score recipes which will elicite the dazed respect of anyone lucky enough to sit at your table.

Exquisite dishes based on the clearest philosophy
This is a distillation of the philosophy of an extraordinary chef. The purity and simplicity of the dishes, but also the thinking, is sometimes provocative, but always rewarding. The dishes are described without pretence, and as far as I have been able to tell, with completeness and great accuracy. This is not always the case with the outpourings of the TV chefs in a crowded, trendy marketplace.

I loved this book, and bought Nico's earlier "My Gastronomy" as a result. The writing does not really address everyday eating, but for anyone who loves cooking there are many truly sublime dishes exposed in this book, and none seem beyond the reach of the domestic kitchen or the skilled amateur. No other chef has had such an influence on my own approach to the experience of food. The harmony of ideas, the passion and focus, - these remind me of the precision of Raymond Blanc, the simplicity and disarming candour of Elizabeth David.

Timeless and wonderful.

ignore the ego - eat the food
Ever since I heard Nico on Desert Island discs I have suspected he's just not my kind of guy ... read this book and discover how he has single-handedly transformed the restaurant trade in this country. And don't forget if you ever eat in his restaurants that he, and not you, knows best about what you really want....