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My Last Supper: 50 Great Chefs and Their Final Meals / Portraits, Interviews, and Recipes Hardcover – Illustrated, November 6, 2007

by Melanie Dunea (Author), Anthony Bourdain (Introduction)

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Melanie Dunea meets Heat in this award-winning photographer's stunning celebration of world-famous chefs and their final meals.

Chefs have been playing the "My Last Supper" game among themselves for decades, if not centuries, but it had always been kept within the profession until now. Melanie Dunea came up with the ingenious idea to ask fifty of the world's famous chefs to let her in on this insider's game and tell her what their final meals would be. My Last Supper showcases their fascinating answers alongside stunning Vanity Fair-style portraits. Their responses are surprising, refreshing, and as distinct from each other as the chefs themselves. The portraits--gorgeous, intimate, and playful--are informed by their answers and reveal the passions and personalities of the most respected names in the business. Lastly, one recipe from each landmark meal is included in the back of the book. With My Last Supper, Dunea found a way into the typically harried, hidden minds of the people who have turned preparing food into an art. Who wouldn't want to know where Alain Ducasse would like his supper to be? And who would prepare Daniel Boulud's final meal? What would Anthony Bourdain's guest list look like? As the clock ticked, what album would Gordon Ramsay be listening to? And just what would Mario Batali eat for the last time?

Featuring: Ferrán Adrià, José Andrés, Dan Barber, Lidia Bastianich, Mario Batali, Rick Bayless, Michelle Bernstein, Daniel Boulud, Anthony Bourdain, Scott Conant, Gary Danko, Hélène Darroze, Alain Ducasse, Wylie Dufresne, Suzanne Goin, Gabrielle Hamilton, Fergus Henderson, Thomas Keller, Giorgio Locatelli, Masa Kobayashi, Nobu, Jamie Oliver, Jacques Pepin, Gordon Ramsay, Michel Richard, Eric Ripert, Marcus Samuelsson, Charlie Trotter, Jean-Georges Vongerichten and more…

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Bloomsbury USA
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November 6, 2007
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9.42 x 1.03 x 12.55 inches
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Starred Review. Dunea, an award-winning photographer, wrote to 50 famous chefs and asked them to describe their ideal last meal. Their answers, compiled in this weirdly absorbing and gorgeously designed volume, range from the comforting (Lidia Bastianich bids adieu over a plate of linguini and clams) to the cheekily self-aggrandizing (Laurent Tourondel wants nothing more than a BLT sandwich from his own restaurant). The meals are curiosities, and the few recipes included are pleasant enough; it's the photographs of each chef that make this book so irresistible. One needn't have heard of them, much less dined in their restaurants, to appreciate their portraits: from a graceful Gabrielle Hamilton nursing her son to a dashing Guillaume Brahimi reclining in front of the Sydney Opera House, each image is iconic, surprising, and quite often, oddly appetizing. Marcus Samuelsson poses, impishly, in a Japanese-style headband made of salmon; Wylie Dufresne leans like a centerfold on a table stacked with American cheese; and Anthony Bourdain poses totally nude, strategically wielding a butchered leg bone. But perhaps no picture is more memorable than Dan Barber's, a soft-featured New York chef, posing alongside a massive boar named Boris. His last meal is rack of boar, of course: "If I'm going, so is Boris."
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“The format suggests coffee-table book, but this sumptuous feast of portraits, interviews and recipes is more like a banquet-table book” ―Kirkus

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bloomsbury USA; 1st edition (November 6, 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1596912871
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1596912878
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.45 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.42 x 1.03 x 12.55 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #95,508 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Melanie is the author and photographer of 5 books including the notable, "My Last Supper" series. Her latest project "Our Shoes, Ourselves", was published in May. Melanie’s books have sold over 80,000 copies worldwide and been translated into multiple languages. She works with magazines, corporate clients, music companies, brands and advertising agencies. Clients such as Vanity Fair magazine, Chase Bank, Moët & Chandon and Sony Music to name a few.
Melanie has appeared on Mind of a Chef, Top Chef, The Today Show, NPR Weekend Edition and The Splendid Table. She has received photographic awards from American Photography, PDN, Communication Arts, Graphis, Society of Publication Design, International Photography Awards, and the Lucie Foundation. My Last Supper, The Next Course, won the Gourmand Best in the World for the USA in Photography.
Melanie supports several international charities. Her photography has appeared in campaigns for the Food Bank for NYC, Wellness in the Schools and The Edible Schoolyard NYC. Operation Smile honored Melanie with the Universal Smile Award for her photographic and charitable contributions as one of their Ambassadors.
When Dunea is not traveling the world on assignment, photographing and reporting she lives in New York City.
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Very Distinctive Career Interviews

Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2019

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This kindlebook that is My Last Supper; The Next Course; 50 More Great Chefs And Their Final Meals, Portraits, Interviews, and Recipes by Melanie Dunea has a prolific list of famous andor highly accomplished chefs and abundant details related to the theme of this kindlebook. ; what would be their last meal on earth (Joel Robuchon), dining companions during their last meal on earth (Albert Roux), Tom Colicchio explains why one of the recipes from his mom plays a role in his last meal on earth, Ruth Rogers references three of her closest friends for her last meal, Alex Atala’s drink that would go with his last meal on earth involving fruits and herbs, Marco Pierre White explains why the people he is with rather than the seating takes precedence for his last meal, Martha Ortiz’s take on the music she would listen to on her last meal, Heston Blumenthal’s Sunday theme food for his last meal, why Daniel Patterson prefers a seasonal theme for his last meal, Wolfgang Puck explains why he would prefer for some of his friends to prepare his last meal, why Patrick O’Connell would prefer his life to end in Washington D.C., why for chef Daniel Humm his preferred last meal setting could be either in America or Switzerland, and many more fascinating interviews.

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Disappointing

Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2021

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This book sounded to me like such a great idea, and I really wanted to love it. But the execution is lazy, and other than few bright spots (Bourdain, Ripert), many of the rest reads like an answer that the chefs sent to an email from the author, after giving it a whole five minutes' thought. Or maybe, these chefs really don't have anything to say. I'm not sure what's worse. For a relatively expensive book, I was expecting more than a magazine type article.

Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2020

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Book arrived quickly and in perfect condition. Now to start cooking some delicious meals. Some of my favorite foods are described in this book, but I have not chosen what will be my last. Hopefully plenty of good eating and time before I have to.

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Don’t buy this as an audible book

Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2020

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Don’t buy this as a audible book, the narration is a bit dry and not having recipes to View is a tragedy

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Absolutely worth the money.

Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2021

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This was beautiful both aesthetically and in content. By turns heartwarming, thought-provoking, and funny, this book is one that I’ll wish I could read for the first time all over again.

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Nice present

Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2020

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A quick read...a bit dated as book was published several years ago...but bought used and enjoyed it..gave away for Christmas present.

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Interesting work, but I'd like to see all the goods

Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2007

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What an interesting thesis! What would be the last supper of a series of fine chefs! Melanie Dunea, the author, notes (page 7): "Chefs have been playing the 'My Last Supper' game, in one version or another, since humans first gathered round the flames to cook. . . . "If you were to die tomorrow, what single dish, what one mouthful of food, would you choose as your last?"

And then, we see the answer to that existential question by 50 chefs.

Anthony Bourdain says that his final dish would be: "Roast bone marrow with parsley and caper salad, with a few toasted slices of baguette and some good sea salt." So far, so good. We see his recipe for the marrow at the end of the book, and it's a bit different!

What about Mario Batali? He'd like his last meal on the Amalfi Coast, with his family and friends such as Emeril Lagasse. The meal itself? Eight to ten courses! Beginning with marinated anchovies, to a Neapolitan version of a grilled cheese sandwich, to . . . And on it goes. He gives us a recipe for one item, Shrimp in Crazy Water--but not the rest. Would have been fun to get the whole picture.

Then, Alain Ducasse. He would begin with a coponata (a Sicilian specialty), then roasted quail in Madiran wine sauce, then smooth celeriac puree with nutmeg, and a finish with apple slices. Again, boy, I'd like to see all of the recipes, although his Melt-in-Your-Mouth Apple Slices, which is included in the volume, looks pretty good.

And on it goes. It's kind of fun to see what these fine chefs would have as their last meal, whom they would like to done with, whom they would like to cook the meal, where they would like the meal to take place. I find this work enchanting. But, again, I'd sure like to see all of the recipes for those final meals, rather than the small selection. Without that, this seems just a bit incomplete. Still and all, this is a neat volume.

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A well done coffee table book. Interesting

Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2021

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Do you like to read about food and are kind of a celeb chef dork? This is your book. I love it

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Matt wright

Nice book for a chef.

Reviewed in Canada on February 18, 2019

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Nice book. But took a long time to receive. Good price

Vanessa

ideal present

Reviewed in Germany on December 5, 2009

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Got it from Oprah and gave it to my best friend for her birthday. The book is not a cookbook, per se, but it is nicely made up, expensive cover, nice print, and the articles by the respective chefs are interesting - even for non-gourmets. It is about DIN A 4 format and heavy. Bottom line: great gift!

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Christine L Duguay

... a time and you are dreaming of indulgences and wonderful dinner ideas

Reviewed in Canada on August 8, 2016

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Once chef at a time and you are dreaming of indulgences and wonderful dinner ideas.

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need i write more!!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 21, 2012

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i love marco and this book is amazing and has everything in it and well there are not much marco books out but i have them all and this is a great book for all good chef's

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