Chefs & Company: 75 Top Chefs Share More Than 180 Recipes To Wow Last-Minute Guests

by Maria Isabella

Overview

At Home with the Biggest Names in Food

This incredible, never-before-assembled collection of recipes offers a rare and exciting glimpse into the private home kitchens of 75 culinary superstars as they prepare show-stopping meals for their own last-minute guests in an hour or less.

For example, Curtis Stone whips up delicious Charcoal-Grilled Rib Eye Steaks & Boccolini, while Stephanie Izard prepares a fabulous Stir-Fried Eggplant and Sesame Cucumber Salad. For her choice, Naomi Pomeroy makes a mouthwatering Pasta Amatriciana. These aren’t complicated, fussy recipes. They’re stress-free dishes the chefs fall back on to impress those closest to them—and ones you can easily duplicate in your own home kitchen.

With more than 180 personal recipes, secret tips, inside advice, beverage pairings, and music playlists—plus gorgeous full-color photos—you’re set up for success no matter the occasion. It’s only a matter of time before someone special drops by.

Chefs include:

MING TSAI

CURTIS STONE

STEPHANIE IZARD

NAOMI POMEROY

HUGH ACHESON

LIDIA BASTIANICH

RICK BAYLESS

MICHELLE BERNSTEIN

JOHN BESH

SUSAN FENIGER

ANDY HUSBANDS

SEAN BROCK

EDWARD LEE

ANITA LO

JENN LOUIS

TIM LOVE

JONATHAN WAXMAN

MARC MURPHY

CHARLIE PALMER

CARLA PELLEGRINO

ERIC RIPERT

AARÓN SÁNCHEZ

DANIEL BOULUD

ROBERT DEL GRANDE

KATIE BUTTON

SHAUN HERGATT

GAVIN KAYSEN

KRISTEN KISH

MICHAEL WHITE

ANDREW ZIMMERMAN

JODY ADAMS

ZOI ANTONITSAS

NYESHA J. ARRINGTON

CLARK BARLOWE

JOEY BEATO

EMMA BENGTSSON

JONATHAN BENNETT

DANTE BOCCUZZI

STUART BRIOZA & NICOLE KRASINSKI

ZACK BRUELL

CESARE CASELLA

JIM CHRISTIANSEN

SONYA COTÉ

GREG DENTON & GABRIELLE QUIÑÓNEZ DENTON

TIFFANY DERRY

TRACI DES JARDINS

RON DUPRAT

FORD FRY

KENNY GILBERT

MARIA HINES

CHRIS HODGSON

LINTON HOPKINS

MATT HOYLE

MIKE ISABELLA

JENNIFER JASINSKI

JOSEPH “JJ” JOHNSON

JEAN JOHO

DOUGLAS KATZ

TONY MAWS

RYAN MCCASKEY

TORY MILLER

BRUCE MOFFETT

MATT MOLINA

KEVIN SBRAGA

BARTON SEAVER

ALON SHAYA

BRYCE SHUMAN

ANA SORTUN

ANGELO SOSA

SUSAN SPICER

ETHAN STOWELL

BILL TELEPAN

BART VANDAELE

JOANNE WEIR

ERIC WILLIAMS

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780594062813
Publisher:	Page Street Publishing
Publication date:	10/10/2017
Pages:	464
Product dimensions:	8.10(w) x 10.10(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Maria Isabella is the bestselling author of the award-winning cookbook, In the Kitchen with Cleveland’s Favorite Chefs. She’s also a tester for America’s Test Kitchen and Bon Appétit, a judge for the IACP awards, and a member of the James Beard Foundation and Les Dames d’Escoffier. She lives in Cleveland, Ohio.

Ken Goodman is a freelance photographer based in New York City. The ultimate culinary insider, he is a classically trained chef whose photos have appeared in Rolling Stone, The Wall Street Journal, and many award-winning cookbooks.

Editorial Reviews

10/16/2017
Isabella, a recipe tester for Bon Appétit and America’s Test Kitchen, showcases 180 showstopping one-hour-or-less recipes from 75 leading American chefs, sharing the “casually delicious food they pull from the pantry” when guests arrive. With each recipe, the contributing chef offers tips for cocktails and wine pairings and music playlists to accompany the customized dinner. Chef and TV host Ming Tsai suggests playing Miles Davis and drinking a pinot noir with his peppercorn duck with cranberry chutney and fried. James Beard–winner Aaron Sanchez presents a chicken in garlic chipotle sauce with sautéed potatoes, brussels sprouts, and asparagus paired with Argentinian malbec and Alabama Shakes. Asheville-based Katie Button’s dinner starts with a sparkling white sangria, features harissa-mushroom glazed fish, and ends with gin-soaked blackberries atop creamy whipped yogurt. There are a wealth of rib-eye steak, pasta, and fish recipes to choose from, as well as many fruit-based desserts. Chefs hail from across the country and from various ethnic and culinary backgrounds—from classically trained to self-taught, and from famed restaurateurs to food-truck chefs. With these easy-to-assemble designer dinners, home cooks can entertain like rock star chefs. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly

Chefs & Company is as much a cookbook as it is a celebration of home cooking at its absolute best!”

- Gail Simmons, chef, judge on Top Chef, author

“I love getting ideas for last-minute entertaining from the chefs in this beautifully-photographed book. If anyone knows how to throw a party, it's this fabulous group of culinary rock stars!”

- Dana Cowin, former editor-in-chief of Food & Wine magazine, author

"Maria Isabella has captured the essential question that all home cooks lean on professionals for: What can I make for dinner in less than an hour? The answers are insightful while the recipes are fun and approachable. What makes this book come alive are Ken Goodman’s brilliant photos."

- Andrew Zimmern, three-time James Beard Award-winning TV personality, chef, writer

“In Chefs & Company, Maria and Ken get you a table that nobody can get—inside the home kitchens of chefs from every corner of our food-obsessed country.”

—Ted Allen, host of Chopped, bestselling author

“It's exciting to see books like Chefs & Company make restaurant culture accessible to cooks of all skill levels. Maria's book has already found a spot on my kitchen bookshelf as a go-to!”

- Geoff Bartakovics, founder of TastingTable.com

“When you need inspiration to get a meal on the table, reach for this cornucopia of recipes by some of the coolest chefs in the nation."

- Tom Douglas, James Beard Award-winning chef, restaurateur, author, radio talk show host

“Chefs & Company makes me want to stop what I'm doing and throw a dinner party! This book is a delight to the senses that gives us a rare and intimate view of how America's gastronomic heavyweights cook at home.”

- Anna Watson Carl, author of The Yellow Table

"Chefs & Company is the kind of cookbook that inspires creativity in the kitchen and rewards one's passion for beautiful food. The bonus is how quickly and easily it all comes together!"

- Pascale Naessens, bestselling author, ceramic artist, lecturer

“The best cookbooks not only help you to make a delicious dinner, but they also teach you how to be a better cook. Chefs & Company is that kind of book.”

- Carla Snyder, James Beard Award-nominated author, recipe developer, blogger

“Maria Isabella has crafted a cookbook both useful and enchanting. Above all, her ability to tease out each chef's unique personality lifts this book beyond mere recipes and into the realm of good reads.”

- Elaine T. Cicora, James Beard Award-winning food writer, editor, restaurant critic

“Want to WOW your friends, your family, and yourself? Feast on this must-have collection of show-stopping meals from gifted chefs who have sculpted America’s palate!”

- Bev Shaffer, award-winning food/travel writer, author

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