Brothers in the Kitchen: A Celebration of Friendship and Fine Food [Hardcover]

Brendan O'Farrell; Michel Deville; Dreamcooks Net (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 30, 2006

"Brothers in the Kitchen brings me back to the great Proven??al food I have enjoyed through the years."-Jacques Pepin. This lively international guide to gourmet cooking presents food in the clear bright sun of Provence--friends and neighbors

Product Details

• Hardcover: 216 pages
• Publisher: Favorite Recipes Pr; First Edition edition (August 30, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0977980707
• ISBN-13: 978-0977980703
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.8 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,619,035 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Far more than expected!, December 7, 2006

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Gourmande (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brothers in the Kitchen: A Celebration of Friendship and Fine Food (Hardcover)

It is unusual to be completely satisfied once you actually delve into a cookbook and try to produce the "plat".
Brothers in the Kitchen works!
It is clear that much attention was put into clarifying the recipes to make them easy to follow, each with a photograph.
The accompanying essays are light and engaging.
I have ordered several to give as holiday gifts... if not for cooking to impress, to make a beautiful coffee table addition.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Enthusiastically recommended as a core addition to any gourmet quality kitchen cookbook collection!, April 10, 2007

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brothers in the Kitchen: A Celebration of Friendship and Fine Food (Hardcover)

Some 35 years ago Brendan O'Farrell, an international business man, and Michel Deville, a French Master Chef, became the best of friends who shared an appreciation for good service and great food. They opened a restaurant (La Table de Michael) in Sain-Remy de Provence near Avignon in the South of France in the spring of 2005. Now having successfully collaborated as restauranteurs, they have combined their love of the culinary arts to publish a compendium of savory recipes laid out with careful step-by-step instructions so clear and concise as to be able to transform ordinary kitchen cooks into accomplished chefs of French cuisine. Wonderfully illustrated throughout with finished dishes, the recipes comprising "Brothers In The Kitchen" range from Tri-Color Salad; to New Orleans Style Gumbo; to Roast Sirloin Encrusted in English Mustard; to Jumbo Prawns Flambe with Pernod; to Spinach with Swiss Cheese Sauce; to Mint Chocolate Delight. Enhanced with the inclusion of wonderful anecdotes and stories, "Brothers In The Kitchen" begins with thematically appropriate advice about how to get started in the kitchen, matching wines with foods, stocks and savors, and goes on to include sage counsel respecting menus, special restaurants and restaurateurs, conversion tables for cooking, and more. "Brothers In The Kitchen" is enthusiastically recommended as a core addition to any gourmet quality kitchen cookbook collection!

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Delicious, straightforward, & entertaining, November 16, 2006

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Life is good "Lisa" (California, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brothers in the Kitchen: A Celebration of Friendship and Fine Food (Hardcover)

This book was a pleasure to read & the pictures made my mouth water. The recipes are designed to be successfully followed by both the seasoned chef & the newly initiated, with pretty impressive results. I tried the "Death by Chocolate" and was ready to go to heaven! Anyone who yearns for a taste of Provence, whether it be at the dinner table or in a favorite reading nook, will be deeply satisfied. Also, unlike some other books of this genre, I think that men would especially enjoy its particular combination of culinary craftmanship, staightforward writing & entertaining stories.