Sampler-size Starters are the Focus of Mustards Grill Cindy Pawlcyn's New Cookbook

Visitors to Napa Valley have either been to or heard of Mustards Grill, the long standing Napa Valley restaurant started by Cindy Pawlcyn over 20 years ago.  Big Small Plates is her new book featuring over 150 recipes of Pawlcyn's sampler-size starter dishes.  eCookbooks writes:

Cindy Pawlcyn, of Mustards Grill fame and the author of the acclaimed Mustards Grill Napa Valley Cookbook does it again.  Big Small Plates is here, and what a joy it is.  Customers of Mustards Grill have long been making meals of the sampler-size starters, the premise of this book.  Here are generously scaled recipes with less fuss and more flavor than traditional appetizers.  And, to whet your whistle, the recipe for Grilled "Street" Corn appears below.  Also in this week, James Oseland's Cradle of Flavor. Home Cooking from the Spice Islands of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore.  Oseland is the executive editor of Saveur, and his book is infused with not only the recipes of the region, but with a writing style that joyously invites you to celebrate the food, the region, and the people.

Get Big Small Plates at eCookbooks for $21.00 (40% off).

Also available is Pawlcyn's Mustards Grill: Napa Vally Cookbook awarded the James Beard's Best American Cookbook in 2002.

By Robert | August 2, 2006 in A Food & Wine Gift Guide, Chef Books, Cookbooks | Permalink | Comments (0)

Recchiuti Confections Valentines Box and Chocolate Obsession

 

Give the chocolate devotee in your life a sumptuous Recchiuti box, and the secrets to confection artistry. With three layers of delicious infusions of tea, herbs and flowers, your love will have so many delicious ways to think of you.  Michael Recchiuti's Chocolate Obsession provides step-by-step instructions to the those ambitious enough to take on, say, Force Noire ganache.  It offers page after page of chocolate pornography for the rest of us. 32 Piece Large Valentines Box, $75, Chocolate Obsession, $23.

By Kyeann Sayer | January 15, 2006 in Chef Books, Chocolate, Cookbooks, Cooking, Food, Valentine's Day | Permalink | Comments (0)

Fast Food My Way - Great Meals in a Hurry

Fast food Jacques Pepin's way is as effortless as seasoning a salmon with fresh herbs and nutty bread crumbs and cooking it right on the serving platter in a low oven.  Every dish in this beautifully photographed cookbook is special enough to serve to company.

With this cookbook, it's inspiring to know we can prepare great meals even with little time.

Fast Food My Way by Jacques Pepin  |  $18.00 (40% off) at ecookbooks.com

By Robert | September 23, 2005 in Chef Books | Permalink | Comments (0)

Autographed Chef Cookbooks

Sur la Table's website offers a great collection of autographed chef books from authors like Mario Batali, Bobby Flay, Paula Deen, Rachael Ray, Ina Garten, Lidia Bastianich, Jamie Oliver, Thomas Keller, Jacques Pepin, and more.  A great gift for food lovers.

Autographed Chef Cookbooks available from Sur la Table.

By Robert | August 30, 2005 in A Food & Wine Gift Guide, Chef Books | Permalink | Comments (0)

Must Have Cookbooks for the Season

• GRAND LIVRE DE CUISINE Alain Ducasse's culinary encyclopedia is now available in English
• RECIPES FROM A VERY SMALL ISLAND Celebrates the food of Maine's Isle au Haut
• SUSANNA FOO FRESH INSPIRATION Fuses Asian ingredients with Western techniques

via Time Magazine

By Robert | August 15, 2005 in Chef Books, Cookbooks | Permalink | Comments (0)

Ferran Adria's El Bulli Cookbook Special Order - $245

Online cookbook retailer, Jessica's Biscuit, is offering a special on Ferran Adria's El Bulli cookbook at 30% off the $350 list price.  Your price is only $245.

Pre-order Ferran Adria's El Bulli today at ecookbooks.com.

By Robert | July 1, 2005 in Chef Books | Permalink | Comments (0)

Holiday Gift Guide: Thomas Keller's Bouchon

Welcome to Thomas Keller's "Bouchon". The French word Bouchon has several meanings: it can be a cork, or stopper, or a bundle of hay once used to rub down a traveler's horse. In Lyon, a bouchon is a distinct kind of restaurant, of which only about a dozen legitimate examples remain. The traditional bouchon of central France is a comfortable destination for humble, hearty food. Yet even the most basic food, a Potato Leek Soup, for instance, can vary greatly from one bowl to the next. What makes the difference? The cook and the care given to that bowl of soup. For Thomas Keller, this attentiveness is everything, and the result is beyond comparison. We invite you to join French Laundry's Thomas Keller as he describes that which makes a true bouchon in his brand new book.

Get an author autographed bookplate with your copy of "Bouchon" while supplies last @ Jessica’s Biscuit ecookbooks.com.

By Robert | December 7, 2004 in Chef Books | Permalink | Comments (0)

Gourmet Gift: Ferran Adria's elBulli Cookbook

The English translation of Ferran Adria's cookbook, El Bulli 1998-2002, has arrived. Read a step-by-step account of twenty years of kitchen work covering El Bulli Restaurant's development, and the keys to Adria's creations. Photographs of every dish, taken by Francesc Guillamet, are found within the 500 pages of this hefty cookbook. A CD-ROM of all recipes is included with each book.

Read Wine Spectator's review of El Bulli here.

Available now from Amazon.

Special order price $210 from Jessica's Biscuit.  Order here.

By Robert | December 3, 2003 in A Food & Wine Gift Guide, Chef Books | Permalink | Comments (0)