Welcome to our 12 Days of Holiday Gifts. As we mentioned in episode 17 of the podcast, for the 12 days leading up to Thanksgiving, we'll be giving you our picks for great gifts. Then, on Thanksgiving night, we'll have a Gift Guide available for you to download. The guide will include the 12 books featured on the blog, plus many other gift ideas, several under $20!
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The Complete Robuchon by Joel Robuchon
This is the gift for the serious foodie, the one for whom cooking is an obsession, the one who can think of nothing better than a weekend spent in the kitchen among butter and spices and bubbling sauces.
Joel Robuchon is a master chef; he holds more Michelin stars than any other chef in the world, and owns a vast empire of restaurants. With a resume like that, it is easy to think that this book might be intimidating. However, it is very much the opposite. This book is written for the home cook, with straightforward and easy-to-follow instructions. His emphasis is on technique, and on quality ingredients.
Robuchon gives us more than 800 recipes for classic French cuisine, with a modern twist. The classics are all here, including pot-au-feu, garlic mayonnaise, vichyssoise, terrines, custards and tarts. At 770 pages (before the index), this book is truly comprehensive. Seafood, meats and game take center stage. If you are looking for just the right rabbit or pheasant recipe, you will find it here. The "eggs" section alone runs 21 pages.
At $35, this is an incredible value. The Complete Robuchon will find a comfortable home on the bookshelf next to culinary reference classics like Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking or Marcella Hazan's Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking. And if you're lucky, your gift recipient will invite you for the first meal cooked from this incredible volume.
The Complete Robuchon by Joel Robuchon
ISBN: 978-0-307-26719-1, $35.00
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