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My Family Table: A Passionate Plea for Home Cooking (John Besh) Hardcover – November 1, 2011

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  • Series: John Besh (Book 2)
  • Hardcover: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing; 1St Edition edition (November 1, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449407870
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449407872
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 1.4 x 10.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 3.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (144 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsTHE family cookbook for the first part of this millennium
By Jesse Kornbluth on November 7, 2011
Format: Hardcover
We gave away 50 cookbooks the other week.

Now I see we could also have given away "The Joy of Cooking."

What? Eighteen million copies of "The Joy of Cooking" have been sold since it was published in 1936. (Correction: Irma Rombauer, a widow, was the first to publish it --- to self-publish it --- in 1931.) There is no more classic cookbook in America. Even restaurants use it. What could possibly replace it?

For the America of the 2010s: "My Family Table: A Passionate Plea for Home Cooking," by John Besh.

Besh, for those who have not had dinner in New Orleans recently, is the movie-star-handsome Louisiana homeboy who has, at a tender age, built a six-restaurant empire. He was a Marine who kept up with foodie journals as he led troops in the first Gulf War. He is still married to his first wife. He has four kids.

After Katrina, Besh was everywhere, talking up his city. He produced a terrific cookbook: "My New Orleans." Then he started to simplify. And to listen to his wife (never a bad idea), who said, "Yeah, but what about our kids?"

So, at last, a family-friendly cookbook, short on cooking time, shorter on preservatives and junk food substitutes. A book for the way we live now? Some chapter titles: "Sunday Supper," "School Nights," "Breakfast with My Boys," "Barbeque Wisdom" and "Fried Chicken (& Other Classics)."
Here are ten reasons to fall in love with this book:

1) The first recipe is "Risotto Almost Anything."

2) The second recipe is "Creamy Any Vegetable Soup."

3) The third recipe is "Simple Meat Ragout for Any Pasta."

4) The fourth recipe is "The Perfect Frittata."

5) The fifth recipe is "Curried Anything."

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5.0 out of 5 starsEXCELLENT!
By hotpink on December 8, 2011
Format: Hardcover
As an owner of 350 plus cookbooks, it takes a lot to to impress me in a cookbook..that being said, I am simply blown away with this book. So much care, time and passion went into these recipes, that you almost feel that you are one with the book. It's like reading a novel, only to realize it never has to end. Beautiful, awesome and inspiring. Thank you, Mr. Besh.
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe true meaning of food
By Mark on November 7, 2011
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John Besh reminds us that the ultimate pleasure from a dining experience is the people with whom you share the meal. Chef Besh reminds us to make the memories of a lifetime around the family table.

The recipes are really good and easy to follow. But, take the book as it was intended: A guide to bring your family together with a wonderful meal, great conversation, and memories of a lifetime
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5.0 out of 5 starsInspiration
By Kyle on January 1, 2013
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I saw a hard-copy of this on a trip to New Orleans, but more and more I have been opting to purchase the Kindle version. It is a beautiful book, but I have a bookshelf of beautiful books taking up space...and you know what you can't do with a big beautiful book? Look at it on your phone in the grocery store.

I've been an avid cook for along time, but this year I went through a drought. Even though we can cook really well, we were eating out more and more. I read this book cover to cover on a plane ride and it rekindled my passion for home cooking.

We only cook for two, so any recipes I've used have been modified and downsized.

I started making risotto regularly, thanks to this book. After all these years of cooking, I had no idea how easy it was to throw together an impromptu risotto.

The chicken fricasse was an instant hit. For an example of easy modifications, it calls for two four-pound chickens to serve eight. We're two and don't need nearly that much meat. I used one large bone-in, skin-on chicken breast and put the emphasis on abundance of vegetables called for in the recipe. I remember the last time we were inspired to cook turnips! The point being that you don't have to carefully follow the recipes to be inspired to make a variation.

If i had to make a criticism it would be that this book is extremely meat-centric. We eat all kinds of meat, but I do look for a heavier focus on vegetables in modern cookbooks. That one thought aside, I've enjoyed owning this book very much and will often flip through the Kindle version on my phone to get inspired to stop by the grocery store on the way home rather than succumbing to the temptation of yet again going out.
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5.0 out of 5 starsReally like being in the family - all Southern classics, done simply
By K. Gill on December 18, 2011
Format: Hardcover
The trend now is for well-known chefs to produce cookbooks which contain their own "home cooking". I find a lot of these to be a bit unrealistic because they really require chef skills at home. John Besh's book, however, is a selection of recipes that you really would eat at home and can prepare on your own, without any special skills or knowledge. I remember reading a book by Anthony Bourdain in which he said that the food that chefs crave most is that simple home-cooked food (maybe I'm grossly paraphrasing, but that's what I took it as) that isn't sophisticated, just good. That's what this book is.

This has many Southern classics (pan-Southern US food) as well as a New Orleans/Louisiana recipes, where Besh is from and works. It has the corn pudding, two recipes for fried chicken, fried catfish, cheese grits, angel biscuits, drop biscuits, buttermilk pancakes, sloppy joes, baked beans... if you grew up in the South, whatever you grew up eating is in here and true to form. Then there are some things like "Carbonara with Sweet Peas and Ham" which isn't at all Southern or a carbonara at all, but it is what Besh cooks at home, so he can have a pass.

This is a very nice selection of recipes and quite accessible.

My only caveat or reservation is that it is a hard-back book with glossy pages toward the larger format size. A book like this should not be presented as a coffee-table book, but should be a paperback, lighter weight, a smaller page format that people will use, dog-ear, get dirty, and pass from family member to family member. Making it so 'pristine' with a dust-jacket is almost an invitation to not use it.
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5.0 out of 5 starsJohn Besh, quite THE chef

Love John Besh...love his cookbooks and I've owned at least 3 dozen different cookbooks.

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Nice cooking book. Made many of the recipes.

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I LOVE this cookbook! John Besh shares family recipes and the personal stories that go with them. The recipes use ingredients I can find in my own pantry or my own grocery store. Read more

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I thought the recipes would be easier. I was wanting the everyday type NOLA food

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Got good recipes, clearly explained, with alternative ingredients, and cooking techniques. A pleasant homey feel to it.

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Just as described. Awesome. Loved it!

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