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Still searching for that perfect gift for the cook in your life? I ran my list by some of my favorite professional chefs and ardent home cooks and they made a few additional suggestions. Le Creuset Dutch Oven My wife thought I was insane when she discovered what I spent on my first Le Creuset Dutch Oven. [...] Stuck for the perfect gift for the cook in your life? Here are a few suggestions. A Good Chef’s Knife You don’t have to break the bank to provide your favorite cook with some serious hardware. While Wusthof, Henckels and Shun get all the shelf space down at the Towels-’n’-Such, there are are better bargains to be [...] Coleslaw for a crowd and gratin by the cubic yard are not a problem if you have a mandoline in your arsenal.
Top to bottom: the mighty Shun mandoline, a Borner V-slicer, a Kyocera paddle slicer and my battered Matfer mandoline What you need to know 1) You don’t need one (but they’re damn handy) A mandoline (French [...] Yesterday’s Chicago Tribune Food section listed their top food books for 2008, including “An Edge in the Kitchen.” Yay! Clicking the link in my name took me to a Sept. 10 review by Bill Daley, Tribune critic. I particularly appreciated this: “An Edge in the Kitchen,” whose subtitle is “The Ultimate Guide to Kitchen Knives,” has [...] Sara Moulton, executive chef of Gourmet magazine, author of Sara’s Secrets for Weeknight Meals, and host of Sara’s Secrets on PBS, has written a very kind review of An Edge in the Kitchen on her website. My favorite line: A lot of knife wisdom served with a splash of wit and a sprinkle of trivia make this [...] Seattle food writer Matthew Amster-Burton has posted a very kind review of An Edge in the Kitchen on his blog, Roots and Grubs. I like Matthew’s writing a lot. Definitely spend some time exploring his essays on food and fatherhood. Matthew’s shoestring fries were the inspiration for me to start experimenting with my own french [...] Received a very kind mention on Michael Ruhlman’s blog. He lists An Edge in the Kitchen as one of his Books Worth Reading and Using. For those who don’t know, Ruhlman is the author of The Elements of Cooking, The Making of a Chef and several other books which offer keen insights into [...] “An Edge in the Kitchen” received a starred review in Publishers Weekly. LIFESTYLE Raleigh food blogger, attorney, and man about town Dean McCord has written a very kind preview of “An Edge in the Kitchen” titled These are the Days of Our Knives on his blog, VarmintBites. Dean writes about dining, home cooking, family, and the Triangle’s burgeoning food movement. His cobbler recipe is also top notch. Definitely [...] The first review is in. The good folks at OnlyKnives.com have just posted a glowing review of An Edge in the Kitchen: If you’ve spent any time at all researching kitchen knives, you quickly realize that there’s a lot of disinformation out there. Myths, misperceptions and outright lies abound. Chad attempts to debunk some of these [...] |
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