Anthony Bourdain’s Les Halles Cookbook: Strategies, Recipes, and Techniques of Classic Bistro Cooking
Customer Review: If You Must Have Only One Cook Book Then This Must Be It
That’s a big statement but I can tell you with all honesty. This is the best cookbook I’ve ever read, more importantly it is the best cookbook I’ve ever USED. And, do I use it often, YES! Here Tony Bourdain shines not only as an amusing and talented writer but exposes to us all to the REAL principal behind all great dishes, and not just French food, that good, quality ingredients coupled with time-proven methods ARE the best. I have been a cook for many years and I specialise in Italian cookery but Tony’s book brought me back to appreciate French-style cookery as never before. But the country of origin doesn’t matter, it’s the approach. No BS! Tell it like it is. All cookbooks are, to me, guides, but Tony has the nous to say, in places, you MUST do this and that. Little details and quality advice tips that take a good dish to ‘great’ status. His, utterly correct emphasis on the basics like a good stock or jus, tells us that these are the real fundamentals of good cookery. And, he shows us that which is so true: all great cookery has its origins in ‘peasant’ food, be it French, Italian, British or Asian. I class this book and Fergus Henderson’s, ‘Nose To Tail Eating’ as two of the most important cookbooks of the 20th Century.
William Kenneth Halliwell
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Customer Review: Bourdain is brilliant
The recipes includes are a bit difficult in my opinion (especially finding the right ingredients), but Bourdain’s aim is to challenge you and not to dumb down everything, which I appreciate.
His writing style is very approachable and unlike with most cookbooks you feel like he’s talking to you as he warns you to not overfill the blender when you are making soup and hold the top down tight unless you want soup all over you.
I’ve made one thing so far which was mushroom soup and it was delicious, so I can imagine the the rest of the food is equally so.
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