Customer Reviews

The Surreal Gourmet EnterTains: High-Fun, Low-Stress Dinner Parties for 6 to 12 People

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The Joy of Cooking is a great cookbook, but The Surreal Gourmet's style makes it fun to read and try recipes. The recipes are popular favorites presented in an easy-to-follow format. At the end there are drink recipes, basics (stock, pesto, etc), and tips on setting up your kitchen, even music recommendations. The book lives up to it's title with cool illustrations and a refreshing style that is definitely surreal compared to other cookbooks.

This guy is a blast! Not one to be turned on with entertainment gourmet TV types, this guy is exceptional. Tuning him in on FoodNetwork several times and really enjoying him and his creativity approach and the fun he has with food and serving it takes me back to my inspiration to enter gourmet --- Galloping Gourmet.

Galloping to Surreal -- this is great wealth of inspiration! Recipes and music and suggestions and great photos and the adventure club and alternatives --- it all makes for one rockin' cookin' adventure.

Check out the likes of "Champagne Rissoto" or "lobstercapecodstyle".

Try and you'll go back for more, forsurereal!

After buying the Surreal Gourmet's book Surreal Gourmet Bites: Showstoppers and Conversation StartersI thought this was a shoe-in. But the food just wasn't anything spectacular, and the book felt very dated. (Not sure when it was published - but this one isn't timeless)

I absolutely LOVED his Showstoppers and Conversation starters book because the recipes were so unusual, but absolutely delicious and backed up with amazing presentation ideas.

This book just didn't have the same feel at all, was boring, and not one that I will probably ever refer to again.

This is a very user-friendly dinner and hosting guide. Infused with a Los Angeles, bohemian-chic, wine-glass-in-hand vibe. In addition, Bob is one hot tamale.