Synopses & Reviews
Some of the Best Food Youand#8217;ll Never Eat in a Restaurant
Danny Meyerand#8217;s restaurants are among the most acclaimed and beloved in the nation: Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern, Maialino, Blue Smoke, The Modern, and more, winners of an unprecedented number of James Beard Awards for outstanding food and hospitality. Family Table takes you behind the scenes of these restaurants to share the food that the chefs make for one another before they cook for you.
Each day, before the lunch and dinner services, the staff sits down to a and#8220;family meal.and#8221; It is simple, often improvised, but special enough to please the chefsand#8217; discerning palates. Now, for the first time, the restaurantsand#8217; culinary director, Michael Romano, coauthor of the award-winning Union Square Cafe Cookbook, collects and refines his favorite in-house dishes for the home cook, served alongside Karen Stabinerand#8217;s stories about the restaurantsand#8217; often-unsung heroes, and about how this imaginative array of dishes came to be. Their collaboration celebrates food, the family itself, and the restaurantsand#8217; rich backstage life.
Some of the recipes are global and regional specialties: Mama Romanoand#8217;s Lasagna, Dominican Chicken, Thai Beef, Layered Huevos Rancheros, and Southern Cola-Braised Short Ribs. Many highlight fresh produce, like Michael Anthonyand#8217;s Corn Soup, Barley and Spring Vegetables with Pesto, Grilled Halibut with Cherry Tomatoes, Sugar Snap Peas and Lemon, and Plum and Apricot Crisp with Almond Cream. There are homey dishes like Turkey and Vegetable Potpie with Biscuit Crust and Streusel-Swirl Coffee Cake, and inventive, contemporary takes, like Cornmeal-Crusted Fish Tacos with Black Bean and Peach Salsa and a delightfully tangy Buttermilk Panna Cotta with Rhubarb-Strawberry Compote. What all these recipes have in common is ease and perfection.
Family Table is an invitation from the restaurant family to you: Please join in.
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"Deliciously hearty, the recipes in The Family Meal have nothing to do with the avant-garde for which elBulli is known, and the amply illustrated book explains them in an accessible, storyboard form." Financial Times Weekend Magazine
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"Wonderful...good straightforward cooking." Mark Bittman, The New York Times Magazine
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"A gem of a cookbook packed with fantastic recipes and tips from a master — the closest most readers will come to eating with him." Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
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"Accessible and interesting...elevating the step-by-step cookbook to a thing of beauty" Salon.com
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Ferran Adrià is recognized as the most influential chef in the world. His legendary talent, creativity and gastronomic innovations have inspired chefs and food-lovers around the world for many years, at the helm of the iconic restaurant El Bulli in Spain. He is also the author of A Day at El Bulli.
Synopsis
While Ferran Adri is better known for his innovative and ground breaking gastronomic creations, this highly anticipated new book reveals, for the first time, his secrets for creating delicious, seasonal, and simple home cooked meals.
The Family Meal's mouth-watering recipes are inspired by the dishes eaten by the staff of Ferran's restaurant, the legendary elBulli, four-time recipient of the World's Best Restaurant Award. Every day at 6pm, Ferran's team stops what they are doing to sit down to eat a three-course dinner together - this is known as the 'family meal'.
Featuring 31 meals (each made up of 3 recipes) and providing the quantities of ingredients needed for servings of 2, 6, 20 and 75 people, this book is a great way to pick up new ideas whether you are cooking at home or in a restaurant.
Synopsis
The Family Meal is the first home cooking cookbook by the world's greatest chef, Ferran Adrià. It features nearly 100 delicious recipes by Ferran Adrià that anyone can prepare, inspired by the dishes eaten every day by the staff at his legendary restaurant El Bulli, awarded World's Best Restaurant five times.
The recipes in The Family Meal are easy-to-prepare and meant for family dining at home. From Roast Chicken with Potato Straws, Sea Bass Baked in Salt and Mexican-style Slow-Cooked Pork to White Chocolate Cake and Baked Apples with Whipped Cream, there is a wide selection of everyday classics for every night of the week. The cookbook is also the first by such a renowned chef to ensure that the dishes are affordable and the ingredients are widely available at the local supermarket.
The Family Meal is organized into three-course menus, with appetizers, mains and desserts, so you can prepare a well-balanced meal at home without fuss. Each recipe is shown with numerous step-by-step full-color photographs, and conversions on how you can prepare a meal for a small or large group — for 2, 6, 20 or 75 people.
This is the cookbook by Ferran Adrià everyone has been waiting for, it is sure to be one of the most talked out and popular cookbooks of the season.
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The best staff meals from Danny Meyerand#8217;sand#160;acclaimed restaurantsand#8212;Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern, Maiolino,and#160;Eleven Madison Park, The Modern, Blue Smoke, Untitled at The Whitney, and moreand#8212;simple enough for any home cook's weeknight dinners, delicious enough for the most discriminating palates.
About the Author
Michael Romano is the culinary director for the Union Square Hospitality Group and co-owner of Union Square Cafe, which won a James Beard Award under his direction.andnbsp;With Danny Meyer, he wrote the James Beard Award-winning
Union Square Cafe Cookbook and
Second Helpings from Union Square Cafe. He was inducted into Beard Foundation's Who's Who of Food and Beverage.
Karen Stabiner is an adjunct professor at Columbia's graduate school of journalism. Her work has appeared in Saveur, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Vogue, and Travel and Leisure. She is theandnbsp;co-author ofandnbsp;The Valentino Cookbook.
Considered by the New York Times to be "the greatest restaurateur Manhattan has ever seen," Danny Meyer is CEO of the Union Square Hospitality Group. His restaurants have won an unprecedented twenty-one James Beard Awards. His book, Setting the Table, was a New York Times bestseller.