Customer Reviews

Williams-Sonoma Mastering: Grilling & Barbecuing

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My wife and myself have become passionate fans of tomato and mozzarella salad, with basil chiffonade and slight dousing of a good Olive Oil. This of course caused great excitement to see this cookbook vectoring off with these two ingredients which are such a gorgeous culinary marriage.

It begins with help in obtaining the best of each ingredients, including growing one's own tomatoes and making one's own mozzarella from the curd stage.

The 100 T&M recipes are organized into various categoires such as breakfast/brunch, finger foods, salads, soups, etc. They are wide ranging and creative. The few that I've tried successfully are: Baked Ricotta and Mozzarella with Olives and Grape Tomato Clusters; Neopalitan Stuffed Chicken, and Potato Tart with Green Beans, Tomato and Mozzarella. Looking forward to many of the remaining 97, such as: Creamy Tomato and Mozzarella Risotto; Tomato, Swiss Chard and Mozzarella Frittata; and Layered Polenta Lasagna with Tomatoes and Mozzarrella.

There are many excellent color photos and the layout is nicely done. Many would enjoy this and put it to good use in their menu planning.

We purchased this book several years ago and it is one of our most used books. Both the main dishes and the appitizers are delicious and very easy to prepare. Over the past year we have become mostly vegetarians and with hearty meals like these you do not miss meat (Many recipes for meat eaters too - Beefy mac n cheese, turkey manicotti, etc. - yum) When summer arrives and the fresh tomatos appear this book hardly leaves the kitchen counter. Highest recommendations!

This is an excellent cookbook. I have tried several recipes - with outstanding results. The authors do a great job of blending flavors together to produce visually and vicerally tasty dishes. The variety of dishes is also terrific. One thing I wish they had included was the amount of preparation time for a dish as some of them are quite time consuming.

What a great cookbook. I use all the time. Easy to follow recipes with fresh ingredients you can easily find. Great gift for family and friends too. One of my staple cooking tools.

It's a very nicely produced cookbook, but it seems a bit bloodless or lifeless compared to the lusty, enthusiastic tone of How to Grill: The Complete Illustrated Book of Barbecue Techniques. This is a pretty coffee table type of book, but I honestly can't see anyone's copy of it getting notes written in the margin or suffering much in the way of staining via barbecue sauce.

This is a mild-mannered, well-behaved cookbook, kind of a neutered grilling cookbook. It's thorough but oddly joyless. To each their own, I guess.