Manhattan Chili Co Southwest-American Cookbook: A Spicy Pot of Chiles, Fixins', and Other Regional Favorites [Hardcover]

Michael McLaughlin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 12, 1988

The coauthor of The Silver Palate Cookbook reveals his secrets for cooking 65 hearty chilies, Tex-Mex main dishes, their fixings, and their desserts, as served in his New York restaurant.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Cooks who like their food hot and spicy will appreciate this good-natured and comprehensive chili guide. McLaughlin (coauthor of The Silver Palate Cookbook, co-owner and chef at the Manhattan Chili Co. restaurant in New York City, offers 10 hearty chili recipes that reflect "widely differing philosophical approaches": i.e., Numero Uno (the slightly sweet taste of pork, tomato juice and cinnamon is offset by garlic), the Real McCoy (beanless, tomatoless, classic Texas chili), green chili with pork (from New Mexico and Arizona, with Native American origins), lamb chili on a bed of jalapeno hominy (Cincinnati-style chili that reflects the Greek and Bulgarian origins of the founders of two leading chili parlors in that city) and vegetarian and seafood varieties. There are also appetizers, accompaniments and home-style desserts, chili combinations, other Southwestern recipes, a directory of chili periodicals and societies and mail-order sources. Better Homes and Gardens Cook Book Club alternate; author tour. (October 7p Robinson, wine correspondent of the London Sunday Times, illuminates a largely ignored aspect of wineampelography, or the science of vine description. Thus, she sets out here to examine grape varieties, the places where they grow and how they taste. The quality and breadth of Robinson's scholarship are apparent in the detailed maps of wine-producing areas of the world, each coded with vine types, that are at the heart of the book. The nine "classic" varieties are explained in extraordinary depth, and the 29 "major" types are covered in only slightly less detail. This material is surprisingly interesting and readable in light of the great mass of information provided. Not all wine enthusiasts will wish to delve this deep; those who do so will be rewarded with a wealth of knowledge not readily available elsewhere. Illustrations.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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The coauthor of The Silver Palate Cookbook reveals his secrets for cooking 65 hearty chilies, Tex-Mex main dishes, their fixings, and their desserts, as served in his New York restaurant.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 120 pages
• Publisher: Crown; 1st edition (December 12, 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0517563177
• ISBN-13: 978-0517563175
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,163,013 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Some of the best Chili recipes you'll ever find, September 15, 1998

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This review is from: Manhattan Chili Co Southwest-American Cookbook: A Spicy Pot of Chiles, Fixins', and Other Regional Favorites (Hardcover)

For those who have eaten at the restaurant in NY and know how good the chili is, this is your chance to try and recreate their chili. Although you'll never get your chili to taste as good as the restaurant's, it will ease your cravings until you have the chance to go to NY again. These recipes are very easy to follow and the payoff is worth it. Every friend I've given this book to has made at least 3-4 different types of the chili and have liked them all. Tenderfoots be ware!!

5.0 out of 5 stars The Real Thing, November 14, 2009

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This review is from: Manhattan Chili Co Southwest-American Cookbook: A Spicy Pot of Chiles, Fixins', and Other Regional Favorites (Hardcover)

This book features chili and other recipes that are authentic. The chili is not "dumbed down" with beans or other fillers. This is the real chuck wagon stuff with beef chuck rather hamburger.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!, July 9, 2010

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This review is from: Manhattan Chili Co Southwest-American Cookbook: A Spicy Pot of Chiles, Fixins', and Other Regional Favorites (Hardcover)

I bought this book, because my neighbor had this book, and I wanted to try out a few new chili recipes, so she let me borrow her copy. There is WAY more than just recipes in here...how to's and tips on a better sauce and types of ingredients, etc. And, in addition to various traditional chili recipes, there is a lot of non-traditional recipes, as well as random things like desserts. I kept it for about a month before I figured I should buy my own and return my neighbor's copy...