The Tribeca Grill Cookbook: Celebrating Ten Years of Taste [Hardcover]

Don Pintabona (Author), Shimon Rothstein (Photographer), Tammar Rothstein (Photographer), Robert De Niro (Introduction), Drew Nieporent (Foreword), Judith Choate (Collaborator)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 31, 2000

This year marks the tenth anniversary of Tribeca Grill, one of the best neighborhood restaurants in New York City. Acclaimed chef Don Pintabona shares his dazzling creations in this wonderful new book.

The Tribeca Grill Cookbook celebrates this anniversary milestone with exciting food and flavors from around the world. To complete this collection, Tribeca Grill partners Robert De Niro and Drew Nieporent have provided a Preface and a Foreword, which are accompanied by a peppering of celebrity anecdotes throughout the book.

Filled with more than 120 enticing recipes and dozens of full-color photographs, this cookbook is straightforward, with lots of new twists on old classics. Recipes include Lobster and Mango Tartlets, Crisp Fried Oysters with Asian Vegetable Slaw, Molasses-Cured Pork Loin with Boston Baked Beans, and Tribeca Film Center Peanut Butter Parfait. You'll also find suggestions throughout for the perfect wine for hors d'oeuvres, appetizers, salads, pastas, and entrées.

The Tribeca Grill Cookbook is sure to be a neighborhood classic for your kitchen and the ultimate taste of Tribeca for your table.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

The Tribeca Grill, famously backed by Robert De Niro and Bill Murray, is a Manhattan treasure. Since its birth in 1990, chef Don Pintabona has produced stylish, savory fare that's considered among the city's most attractive. The Tribeca Grill Cookbook presents 125 of Pintabona's most enticing recipes, including many Grill classics such as Tomato-Basil Crostini with Shaved Parmesan, Cilantro, and Sake-Grilled Chicken, and the much-loved Tribeca Chocolate Torte. In chapters that cover a wide range of courses and dish types, including soups, sandwiches, brunches, and risottos, the book offers approachable, painstakingly written formulas. Though some of these, and particularly those for desserts, demand a cooking commitment, many are unfussy, and dishes such as Brook Trout with Pecans, Lemon, and Parsley Brown Butter, and Molasses-Cured Pork Loin with Boston Baked Beans are as simple to make as they are easy to enjoy. With a chapter on wine selection and dozens of color photos, the book should bring the Grill's relaxed spirit and good cooking home to all. --Arthur Boehm

From Publishers Weekly

In his first cookbook, chef Pintabona celebrates a decade spent in the kitchen of Tribeca Grill, the stylish New York City restaurant owned by restaurateur Drew Nieporent and celebrity investors such as Robert De Niro, Bill Murray and Mikhail Baryshnikov. A Culinary Institute of America graduate, Pintabona creates lauded "contemporary American" cooking that draws upon diverse influences: his Sicilian heritage, a stint in France with the legendary Georges Blanc, and his extensive travels throughout Asia. The home cook-friendly recipes are appealingly familiar, yet globally inspired, starring Lemon Thyme Chicken Salad with Beefsteak Tomatoes, Spicy Chickpea and Tomato Soup, and Morel and Foie Gras Bread Pudding. Pintabona also doles out friendly advice (Farfalle with Duck, Wild Mushrooms and Rosemary Cream Sauce "wows guests on a chilly fall evening"), preparation tips, wine suggestions and celebrity triviaAreaders learn, for example, that Mushroom Palmiers were a vegetarian hors d'oeuvre served at Madonna's Truth or Dare premiere party. Accessible, creative and well-conceived, Pintabona's recipes offer readers a chance to eat like the starsAeven if they'll never dine with them at Tribeca Grill. Placed on bookshelves devoted to New York City, this selection will especially pique the interest of Gotham's celebrity-gazers. (Nov.)
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Villard; 1st edition (October 31, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0375504354
• ISBN-13: 978-0375504358
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,441,873 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Cookbook to Use--Destined to Be One to Last, February 11, 2001

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This review is from: The Tribeca Grill Cookbook: Celebrating Ten Years of Taste (Hardcover)

This is truly one of those exceptional cookbooks from a famous restaurant which is accessible for the home goumet.

The recipes are of exceptional creativity and taste and style, yet they are not of such ingredients that you have to scour the city or internet to find, nor learn exotic techniques.

For example, Lamb and Portabello Skewers with Mint Pesto, Goat Cheese and Oven-Dried Napleons, Crab-Crusted SeaBass with Briased Endive, Pine Nut Polenta, and RedWine Fumet, or my favorite so far from the collection: Molasses-Cured Pork Loin with Boston Baked Beans. And for finishers, you've got to try the Carmelized Banana Tart with Malted-Milk Chocolate Ice Cream.

This is outstanding collection of Italian, Mediterrean, and mixture and fusion of oriental and Middle-east dishes. Great stuff, not too difficult to prepare. Looks great, and the taste is sophisticated, but comfort food as well.

This is one of the best recent new ones out.

16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Experience The Excitement Of Tribeca Grill., November 23, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Tribeca Grill Cookbook: Celebrating Ten Years of Taste (Hardcover)

I have visited the Tribeca Grill several times on trips to NYC and have always enjoyed it. I was intriguied to learn that they now had a cookbook, and purchased a copy. It's a thoroughly enjoyable book. The recipes are great and very accessible, and the annecdotes are interesting and capture the personality of the restaurant. If you can't get to New York, this is a nice alternative to experience the Tribeca Grill.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Cookbook for a Restaurant That Gets Better With Age., January 27, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: The Tribeca Grill Cookbook: Celebrating Ten Years of Taste (Hardcover)

I have been eating periodically at the Tribeca Grill since it opened in 1990. It is a restaurant that continues to get better with age: hearty food, friendly, professional staff, a great wine list, and celebrity buzz. Now there's a book that really captures the spirit and excitement of Tribeca Grill and brings it to my home. The book is lavishly illustrated, the recipes are simple to follow, and the stories are interesting. Even if you've never been to Tribeca Grill, you'll enjoy this book.