Gourmet Cooking For Dummies - Softcover

Gourmet Cooking for Dummies is perfect when you want to upgrade from making back-of-the box recipes to mastering the fine points of culinary technique. Charlie Trotter, known for the creative, sophisticated dishes he prepares at his Chicago restaurant, is one of America's über gourmet chefs. Trotter is famous for amazingly artistic presentations, as the chapter "Architectural Cuisine Made Easy" amply demonstrates. Gourmet Cooking for Dummies is a good guide when you want to ease into classic French culinary techniques such as deglazing and tempering, and learn how to apply them in contemporary ways. Along with recipes ranging from reasonably easy to recherché, Trotter crams in an encyclopedic amount of information, complemented by 16 pages of color photos and illustrations that are sprinkled throughout the text. He even includes advice on pairing foods with wine, lists other cookbooks he recommends, and tells where to send away for the best ingredients. When you want to stun friends with a Whole Roasted Tomato filled with Roasted Garlic Soup and Crispy Fried Leeks, or Chicken Roulade with Prosciutto and Artichoke-Spinach Purée, Gourmet Cooking for Dummies shows you how to go for it.

Charlie Trotter is the chef and owner of the critically acclaimed restaurant Charlie Trotter’s in Chicago, one of only a handful of restaurants in the U.S. to have earned Five Mobil Stars, Five AAA Diamonds, and induction into the internationally renowned Relais & Chateaux. He was also given Wine Spectator’s Readers’ Choice Awards for The Best Chef Currently Working in the U.S. and The Best Dining Experience for 1997. He is the award-winning author of three bestselling books, Charlie Trotter’s, Charlie Trotter’s Vegetables, and Charlie Trotter’s Seafood.