Cooking 1 2 3 or Cheese Board

Cooking 1-2-3: 500 Fabulous Three-Ingredient Recipes

Author: Rozanne Gold

This comprehensive volume contains the very best recipes from Gold's award-winning 1-2-3 cookbook series, featuring exquisitely simple dishes, each made with only three ingredients. Designed to make everyday cooking effortless, this definitive tome contains 500 recipes, including 150 brand new ones and hundreds of new recipe ideas.Gold is known as the "diva of simplicity," and her singular approach focuses on ingredients of uncompromising quality. The result is food that bursts with fresh, clean, resounding flavors. Each recipe features concise, easy-to-follow directions, and all are organized by category—vegetables, fish, meat, pasta and grains, soups and simple breads, eggs and cheese, and more—making shopping and meal preparation easy as 1-2-3. As Bon Appétit "Entertaining Made Easy" columnist, Gold knows how to entertain simply and with great style. She includes special sections on drinks and party food and hors d'oeuvres, and has created 30 delicious menus that provide the promise of abundance without the burden of hours of preparation. This is the "Gold standard" for simple, original, and satisfying food—perfect for the way we live today.

Author Bio: Rozanne Gold is one of America's most influential food writers and chefs, who has taught a generation of home cooks and professional chefs to keep it simple. Gold is chef-director of the Joseph Baum & Michael Whiteman Company, the international restaurant consulting group best known for re-creating New York's magical Rainbow Room and Windows on the World. Author of eight cookbooks, she is the entertaining columnist for Bon Appétit magazine and appears regularly on national television.

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Cheese Board: Collective Works, Bread, Pastry, Cheese, Pizza

Author: Alice Waters

When a tiny cheese shop opened for business on a quaint Berkeleystreet in 1967, there was little hint of what the shop—and the neighborhood—would grow into over the next 30 years. The Cheese Board became a collective a few years later, and Chez Panisse opened across the street, giving birth to one of the country's most vibrant food neighborhoods, the epicenter of California's culinary revolution. Known and loved by locals and travelers alike, the Cheese Board is equal parts bakery, cheese store, pizzeria, and gathering place—a patchwork of the local community, where a passion for good food runs deep. For the first time ever, THE CHEESE BOARD presents the classic recipes that have made the store one of the San Francisco Bay Area's most acclaimed gourmet destinations. Complete with a history of the shop and neighborhood, a cheese primer, and all the classic recipes—including the corn-cherry scones, cheese rolls, and zampanos, all of which have a cult following—THE CHEESE BOARD is as rich and varied as the institution that inspired it.

Library Journal

The Cheese Board began as a small cheese shop, not much more than a hole in the wall, in a quiet Berkeley neighborhood in 1967. Soon thereafter, Alice Waters opened Chez Panisse across the street, and eventually the area became what was referred to as "The Gourmet Ghetto." Today, the cheese shop has larger quarters (but there's still always a line out the door) and has added a morning caf and a pizzeria, a few doors away. Here are the recipes for the breads, pizzas, scones, and other baked goods that have gained a legendary following, along with details on selecting, storing, and serving cheese, including informative suggestions for a variety of cheese plates. The book is as much the story of the shop's evolution as it is a cookbook, and numerous reminiscences and anecdotes from loyal longtime members of the collective are scattered throughout. For area libraries and most other collections. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.