Home Cooking with Jean-Georges gives us a peek into weekends at the Vongerichten's in upstate New York. While the dishes in Home Cooking with Jean-Georges are far from the delicately plated beauties served in his restaurants, there are elements in each of the recipes that read Jean-Georges through and through. We'll be cooking from it all week! More
There's really no sense in being shy about it, we're suckers for pretty much every one of Mario Batali's cookbooks. Our favorite red-headed Crocs-wearing chef's books are always gorgeous, but really it comes down to the fact that they work. And when we say work, we mean they produce consistently wonderful Italian fare that's rustic yet refined, bold, elegant, and satisfying in a deep and happy way. That same happiness carries over in Molto Batali. His latest is all about entertaining, organized into monthly menus designed to feed a crowd. Enter to win a copy here. More
In assembling The Food52 Cookbook, Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs employed a similar strategy, asking members of their community, Food52, to share their best recipe each week for a year. Of course, determining a winner was far from an arbitrary process. Each of the top contenders were tested out and ballots were cast to see which garnered a spot in cookbook. We're cooking from this book all week! More
Anita Lo's first cookbook, Cooking Without Borders, explores her one of a kind approach—French technique applied to a global palette of ingredients. In Lo's mind there's no reason why scallops, uni, bacon, and mustard greens shouldn't share a plate, and foie gras is quite at home in soup dumplings. Enter to win a copy of the new book here! More
The "now" part of Cook This Now stems from the fact that it's a cookbook organized seasonally, but unlike the countless seasonally-themed cookbooks out there, it takes seasonal cooking to a homier, more personal place documenting the meals that Clark makes for her family throughout the year. Many of the recipes in Cook This Now begin in Melissa Clark's local Greenmarket and take you back to her kitchen where she creates meals for her husband, young daughter, friends, and family. Enter to win a copy of the new book here! More
A meal at Mozza is a memorable one to say the least but for those of us without plans to travel to Los Angeles anytime soon, Nancy Silverton has adapted many of Mozza's greatest hits for The Mozza Cookbook. We'll be cooking from it all week! Enter to win a copy here. More
Cook the Book: 'Ruhlman's Twenty': iWander, hiimlauren, purecharger, pwtpwns, and djsparkydog. Winners have been notified by email and also appear on our Contest Winners page. Thanks to all who entered! More
Before elbulli shut its doors back in July, it was arguably the most important and influential restaurant in the world. Reservations were made years out for a dinner at the famed restaurant in Roses, Spain. And while much has been written about dining at elbulli, the public knows relatively little about what went on behind the scenes. For instance, has anyone ever stopped and thought about what Ferran Adrià's 75 employees sat down and ate before the restaurant opened for service each night? It might be fun to imagine the staff chowing down on Olive Spheres and Hot Cold Gin Fizzes, but in reality things were a little tamer and a lot more practical for the home cook. The Family Meal is Adrià's latest cookbook, and it's quite a departure from his previous titles. We'll be cooking from it all week. More
The first technique that Michael Ruhlman introduces in his latest cookbook, Ruhlman's Twenty is simply titled Think because in his words, "Thinking in the kitchen is underrated." Ruhlman wants us to stop blindly following recipes, in an A plus B equals C, kitchen robot kind of way, and start thinking about the hows and whys that make recipe work. Enter to win a copy of his new cookbook here. More
