Winning Styles Cookbook is a veritable all-star team of super chefs who reveal the stories behind their success as well as more than 100 recipes – all complemented by stunning full-color photography throughout. Food professionals and home cooks alike will revel in this practical guide that is also a beautiful testament to the memory of the illustrious James Beard. This inspired new cookbook will give the reader the opportunity to learn the techniques for preparing basics such as stocks and sorbets to the chefs’ prized risottos and ragouts – all of which are accompanied by food and beverage pairings. But the book, with its many photographs of the chefs themselves, is a window into their lives and a moving, personal account of the struggle and success of these dedicated and gifted men and women. Winning Styles Cookbook is a unique compendium that matches the lives and faces of the artists to the great work that is the legacy of James Beard.
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American cooking icon James Beard was passionate about life, and he shared his zeal with others through his cooking. The James Beard Foundation has been dedicated to continuing his legacy by recognizing those aspiring cooks who have preserved and perpetuate Beard’s commitment and devotion. The year 2003 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of James Beard, and in an unprecedented culinary event, 21 master chefs, who have all garnered prestigious James Beard Foundation Awards, share their passion in Winning Styles Cookbook: Recipes from the James Beard Foundation Award Winning Chefs.
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"Not just another well-written, beautifully photographed cookbook. Winning Styles Cookbook is an in-depth expose on 21 acclaimed chefs." -- Abbie Rose, Scottsdale Magazine, September/October 2003
"Winning Styles is an historical, gastronomic and personal record of the men and women shaping the culinary vanguard of excellence." -- Jennifer English, The Food and Wine Radio Network
Full of culinary inspiration, this book is the first of its kind. "Foodies" hope it won't be the last. -- Better Homes and Gardens, Holiday Appetizers 2003
"Winning Styles is an historical, gastronomic and personal record of the men and women shaping the culinary vanguard of excellence." -- Jennifer English, The Food and Wine Radio Network
Full of culinary inspiration, this book is the first of its kind. "Foodies" hope it won't be the last. -- Better Homes and Gardens, Holiday Appetizers 2003
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Winning Food Stylists, Merely tasty recipes,
By peederj (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Winning Styles Cookbook (Hardcover)
I bought this book because I love roundups of fancy restaurant recipes where various chefs duel it out and try to win you over with their creations. In this book, we have an extended blurb on each of the 21 chefs and the equivalent of a tasting menu of food recipes...including dessert.
The problem is common to these glossy, large-format tomes...the food stylist that did the plates for the photographer often took extreme liberties with the recipes. This leaves you with the choice of cooking what's in the photo if you can decode it visually and have the chops, or cooking what's in the recipe and feeling inept to match the glossy. This becomes glaringly obvious by the time you get to the 2nd recipe of the book, "Catfish Pecan with Lemon-Thyme-Pecan Butter." In the photo, the catfish is lying on a plate coated with a lemon beurre blanc. The recipe, on the other hand, creates a beurre noir...it's sort of a Nawlins-riff on skate with black butter, heated up with cayenne, sweetened with pecans, and fattened with catfish. I might suggest that the recipe is better than the photo's idea even though it is not particularly picturesque...indeed quite down & dirty and earty looking. Oh well. They take the poblanos out of the sweet potato soup to make it more yellow. They add corn to the succotash (one wonders why the recipe left it out?) and they put grits and parsnips on the plate with the pecan-crusted rabbit (taking the cream out of the gravy as well)...all sensible choices for your closeup, but still...WYSIWYG, right? Anyway, the food standard in this one turns out to be tasty but not of the three Michelin star "worth a journey" level you might hope for...nothing I've tried has wriggled into my repetoire yet, but the competition for that is utterly fierce. Still, the book introduces me to lots of new things, even if it ends up teaching me more about photography.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Beautiful enough for a coffee table book, easy enough for the kitchen,
By Samantha Kingsley "Samantha Kingsley" (NorthEastern US) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Winning Styles Cookbook (Hardcover)
Enjoy this cook book very much. The dishes are outstanding and not too difficult to make. The book is beautiful - keep it out for people to look at and then take it back into the kitchen when I want to try something new.
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