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In the nationwide search for America’s best amateur chef, thousands of home cooks from across the country created their signature dish for an awe-inspiring panel of judges. Doctors, businessmen, students, construction workers, and stay-at-home moms alike put their heart on the plate for a chance to become the country’s first-ever Master Chef.
From the Mississippi Delta to the Midwest, exotic ethnic dishes to all-American staples, these talented home cooks showed the judges—and the world—what this country is really cooking. Now you can cook with the contestants and judges in your very own kitchen with the MasterChef Cookbook. Learn how to master the basic skills that define any chef; discover an exciting array of ingredients that will inspire new creations; and find out what the judges would have cooked if they were given the same challenges faced by the contestants.
From Cinnamon-Orange French Toast to Vietnamese Chicken and Rice; Southern-Fried Pork Chop to New England–Style Bouillabaisse; Bittersweet Chocolate Soufflé to Flaky Apple Pie, the MasterChef Cookbook offers more than 80 savory, sweet, and scrumptious recipes that prove some of the nation’s most delicious food comes from its most humble kitchens.
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Cook, culinary producer, and author JoAnn Cianciulli is a supervising producer of MasterChef. Her past television credits also include Food Network’s Next Iron Chef and Bravo’s Top Chef L.A. With more than 10 years of experience, JoAnn is known as one of the food industry’s top insiders and has collaborated on projects with such noted chefs as Michael Mina and Tyler Florence. She is the author of nearly a dozen cookbooks, including the acclaimed L.A.’s Original Farmers Market Cookbook. A transplanted New Yorker, JoAnn lives in Los Angeles.
Cook, culinary producer, and author, JoAnn Cianciulli (chan-chew-lee) has become known as one of the culinary industry's top insiders. A pioneer in her field, Cianciulli's experience ranges from co-creating and producing groundbreaking Food Network shows such as Food 911 with Tyler Florence, co-authoring cookbooks with world-renowned chefs like Michael Mina, serving as an industry expert on television shows including Bravo's Top Chef Masters and most recently, as author of L.A.'s Original Farmers Market Cookbook and the Master Chef Cookbook.
A witty, whirling-dervish hailing from New York, Cianciulli grew up in an Italian-American restaurant family where she began her appreciation for food when her father Dominic took over acclaimed chef/restaurateur Lidia Bastianich's first restaurant, Buonavia, in Queens. Translated, the restaurant name means, "the good way," which has become Cianciulli's mantra ever since.
Cianciulli earned her stripes in the world of culinary media in the same fashion that great chefs achieve theirs: from the ground up. After studying at NYU's prestigious Tisch School of the Arts for her BFA in Film and Television, Cianciulli relocated to Los Angeles to work in feature film production. It was long before she created her niche of the delicious combination of cooking and entertainment.
With over 10 years of experience in producing food television, Cianciulli fed America's growing appetite for celebrity chefs and combined her culinary expertise with television production experience to create a new generation of cooking shows. Cianciulli was instrumental in creating the food television phenomenon as it exists today via her role as producer for innovative Food Network programming such as the wildly popular series Food 911 with Tyler Florence, Tyler's Ultimate, Simply Delicioso with Ingrid Hoffmann and Next Iron Chef.
In addition to over 1,000 episodes filmed with the now-iconic network, Cianciulli has completed production of MasterChef with Gordon Ramsay debuting on FOX Tuesday July 27th, which she complemented by writing the cookbook to launch with the series. She has also produced shows such as Bravo's hit series Top Chef Los Angeles, the NBC primetime special Celebrity Cooking Showdown, Shopping with Chefs on Fine Living and the celebrated chef-competition series Cooking Under Fire on PBS, which Cianciulli complemented by writing and editing the companion cookbook to launch with the show. Taking her telegenic personality and to-the-point culinary expertise to the next level, Cianciulli has also appeared on-camera as a food authority and personal chef on TLC's For Better or for Worse and was an invited guest panelist on Bravo's newest series, Top Chef Masters.
It is her reputation and connections made during her tenure with such successful television productions that led to high profile cookbook collaborations including Tyler Florence's Real Kitchen, Aaron Sanchez's Latino cookbook, La Comida del Barrio, the Lever House Cookbook with chef Dan Silverman and the acclaimed debut book for James Beard Award-winning chef Michael Mina. She is currently co-authoring Michael's Genuine Food & Drink with Miami star chef Michael Schwartz.
Cianciulli's fusion of writing, recipe structure, vast culinary knowledge and an intimate understanding of the creative complexity of chefs has uniquely positioned her as a pioneer who has created a new genre of food personality for the 21st century. An accomplished gourmet in her own right, Cianciulli's greatest gift is her innate ability to translate the intricate passion of a chef to an accessible and appealing concept for the home viewer or reader.
Although a die hard New Yorker, Cianciulli has lived in Los Angeles for over a decade because juicy tomatoes are available year round.
This is a good solid paperback cookbook that tells about the MasterChef competition. There are recipes in here of both the contestants and some of the chef/judges. There is a section about needed equipment basics and stocking the pantry. There is help in how to choose wine with different meals and food. This is not a basic cookbook, but not all that difficult, even a determined beginning cook could complete these recipes; like egg in purgatory. My 10 year old wanna be - master chef- grandson even made the stuffed buttermilk pancakes on an aebleskiver pan (with a little help). There are tales from the show, like when Gordon Ramsey had the contestants chop onions for 90 minutes. Directions and pictures are given for many techniques, such as cubing a mango or blanching. Each recipe has the ideas behind it from the individual. Included are very good directions; if a recipe says to roast peppers, they tell you how to do it. Recipes (most have pictures)included are: breakfast, soups, salads and starters, pasta, poultry, seafood, meat, dessert and basics such as chicken broth, cooking rice and mayonnaise.
It is a deceptive cookbook, in that many might think it has very complicated recipes, but even that cook starting out or a more experienced cookbook collector would find this book useful.
Finally the tricks of the trade are spilled in this cookbook so you don't have to guess about how those gourmet dishes were made on the Master Chef show. What I love is that it even breaks down basic tasks like how to cut onions (which they featured in an episode), so you can learn the RIGHT way to do it at home!
If you enjoyed the Master Chef show, you must have this book. Quite a few of the contestants have recipes in the book and nearly all of the winning challenge recipes are there. It also has various tip and technique sections that I have thoroughly enjoyed. While it is a mute point now, I actually received the book 2 weeks PRIOR to the Master Chef finale, so I kind of knew who had already won the various challenges, although not the ultimate winner. Would highly recommend. I've cooked several of the recipes and they were all great. I even made my first successful Apple Pie. One of my favorite cookbooks!! (and I have hundreds)
