Synopses & Reviews
Recipes from a very small kitchen by a man with a very large talent. Nobody better embodies the present-day mantra "Eat real food in season" than David Tanis, one of the most original voices in American cooking. For more than a quarter-century, Tanis has been the chef at the groundbreaking Chez Panisse, in Berkeley, California, where the menu consists solely of a single perfect meal that changes each evening. Tanis's recipes are down-to-earth yet sophisticated, simple to prepare but impressive on the plate.
Tanis opens this soulful, fun-to-read cookbook with his own private food rituals, those treats--jalapeño pancakes, beans on toast, pasta for one--for when you are on your own in the kitchen with no one else to satisfy. Then he follows with twenty incomparable menus (five per season) that serve four to six. Each transports the reader to places far and wide. And for grand occasions, a time for the whole tribe to gather around the table, Tanis delivers festive menus for holiday feasts. So in one book, three kinds of cooking: small, medium, and large.
Synopsis
Nobody better embodies the present-day mantra "Eat real food in season" than David Tanis, one of the most original voices in American cooking. Tanis opens this soulful, fun-to-read cookbook with his own private food rituals, then he follows with 20 incomparable menus (five per season) that serve four to six. Full color.
About the Author
In his three decades behind the stove, David Tanis has overseen kitchens in Santa Fe and Paris and throughout the San Francisco Bay area, mostly notable at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California, where he was a chef for nearly 20 years. His writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal and Fine Cooking magazine and he currently writes the weekly City Kitchen column for The New York Times. Tanis’s A Platter of Figs and Other Recipes was chosen as one of the 50 best cookbooks ever written by The Guardian/Observer (UK), and his Heart of the Artichoke and Other Kitchen Journeys was nominated for a James Beard Award.