An exhilarating and practical cookbook for food with extra sparkle, full of bold, delectable-and sometimes surprising-recipes to create unforgettable meals. Stefan combines unusual-sounding dishes that he has invented or discovered on his culinary travels with simple classics that offer something magical. Chapters include snacks and starters for communal dipping, spectacular main courses to get messy with, and extra challenging interactive meals for the brave guest and ambitious cook.
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A groovier, more irreverant Heston Blumenthal's science-busting, sensation-making innovation." --The Time (UK)
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"I have two humble ambitions in writing this book:
1. To blow your mind.
2. To transform your meals into adventures.
"Often the key to unlocking the exhilaration in food is to re-think the way it is cooked and served. Can you get your friends to take part in the process? Can they interact with their food, perhaps in a way that they haven't before, by baking bread in flowerpots, rolling sushi, mixing soup, or trying an ingredient like jellyfish? Because the secret to giving your friends an unforgettable experience is to flatter their intelligence and feed their appetite for adventure."
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By W. Doyle
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I bought this cookbook as a gift for my girlfriend after hearing the author interviewed on "The Splendid Table," where he described fascinating dishes such as glow-in-the-dark jello and gilded chicken. I was imagining a collection of experiment-y recipes that would be fun to try together. However a quick look-through revealed that this is not so much a cookbook as an entertaining book. The subtitle, "How to Make Meals Your Friends Will Never Forget," should be the one in big colorful letters on the cover, because that is literally what the book is about. The recipes are all the sorts of things that you would never take the trouble to make unless you had some people coming over to say "ooh," "aah," and "gee-whiz."
Gates seems to have three main ways to make a meal unforgettable: cute dishes like the aforementioned luminous jello and gilded poultry (the photo looks kind of like a chicken wrapped in gold colored foil, but it might still be neat), meals served incomplete so that your guests will remember all the work they had to do to roll their own sushi, bust crabs with a hammer, etc., and finally, meals consisting of dishes that can only be described as gross. This last category is by far the most numerous, ranging from conventionally gross fare like frog legs whole suckling pigs, to the bugs and "variety" meats that you'd have to dare your friends to eat.
So if you're looking for a regular Wednesday night cookbook, this isn't it. But if you want to be the guy that served that weird meal that everyone still talks about with a funny look on their faces, then this is for you!
Gates seems to have three main ways to make a meal unforgettable: cute dishes like the aforementioned luminous jello and gilded poultry (the photo looks kind of like a chicken wrapped in gold colored foil, but it might still be neat), meals served incomplete so that your guests will remember all the work they had to do to roll their own sushi, bust crabs with a hammer, etc., and finally, meals consisting of dishes that can only be described as gross. This last category is by far the most numerous, ranging from conventionally gross fare like frog legs whole suckling pigs, to the bugs and "variety" meats that you'd have to dare your friends to eat.
So if you're looking for a regular Wednesday night cookbook, this isn't it. But if you want to be the guy that served that weird meal that everyone still talks about with a funny look on their faces, then this is for you!
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
Gratefully, I won over a very skeptical brother-in-law with the dishwasher salmon in the middle of a holiday fracas. I was hoping against hope that i wouldn't open the door at the end of the cycle to find racks of exploded salmon and soba noodles, but it worked beautifully. Super easy prep, very succulent, rich flavors, and hilarious to explain to the 3 year old nephew.
Gates is a genius. I would totally do this again.
Gates is a genius. I would totally do this again.
By N. Knight
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
My daughter liked this book, but it definitely was not my "cup of tea." Recipes seemed to complicated and very odd.
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