How to Dine in Style

How to Dine in Style
Author: J. Rey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9781851240869

First published in 1920, How to Dine in Style opens a window onto the golden age of elegant dining, where the basic function of ingesting nourishment was elevated to a high social art, attended by intricate details and elaborate ritual.Starched linens, candles, white gloves, apéritifs, ball suppers, French menus and garden-parties - this is the world of the decadent classes who came to prominence in the post-war period.Published in an age where achieving a reputation for throwing recherché dinner parties was a route to international celebrity, this is a book about food as performance art. In it we catch tantalizing glimpses of astonishing excess such as the craze for eccentric venues for dinner parties, including the roof of a Chicago home (for amateur mountaineers), a lion's den, and a gondola in the Savoy.An engaging blend of practical advice and a catalogue of eccentricity, this book contains everything you need to know, from the fine art of composing a menu to the practicalities of the correct order and temperatures for serving wines.

Fine Dining Mississippi Style

Fine Dining Mississippi Style
Author: John M. Bailey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9781893062559

This all-new edition of Fine Dining Mississippi Style contains over 350 recipes from eighty-one of the finest chefs, restaurants and bed and breakfast inns in Mississippi. These recipes represent the signature dishes that have made these chefs and restaurants so popular. Now with detailed instructions, these culinary delights can be prepared and enjoyed in your own home. The book is divided into the various regions of the state, and will serve as a guide to the fine dining available throughout Mississippi. Beautiful full color photographs plus pen and ink illustrations add to the charm of the book.

The Mere Mortal's Guide to Fine Dining

The Mere Mortal's Guide to Fine Dining
Author: Colleen Rush
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2006-10-24
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 0767922034

From aperitif to digestif, approach every meal with savvy and grace. We’ve all experienced Fancy-Pants Restaurant Jitters at some point – the fear that you will unknowingly commit some fine-dining crime, whether it’s using the wrong fork, picking an amateur wine, mispronouncing foie gras, or gasping when your fish entrée arrives with its head still attached. Relax. The Mere Mortal’s Guide to Fine Dining is the ultimate antidote to restaurant anxiety. Where does your napkin go when you leave the table? Should you sniff the wine cork? And why, pray tell, are there so many forks? This comprehensive and accessible primer answers these and dozens of other questions and offers the basics on every aspect of fine dining, including: * How to navigate a place setting * Speaking menu-ese and the language of fine food * A refresher on polite and polished table manners * 911 for wine novices * A carnivore’s guide to beef, pork, lamb, and veal * What local, sustainable, and organic really mean * Japanese dining dos and don’ts * Who’s who on a restaurant’s staff * How to be a regular—or get the perks like one * Top restaurants across the country * What the food snobs know (and you should, too) * And much more… With a little help, any Mere Mortal can order wine with confidence, get great, attitude-free service, decipher menus, and finally, truly, savor any dining experience.

Dining In

Dining In
Author: Alison Roman
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2017-10-24
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0451497007

Discover the cookbook featuring “drool-worthy yet decidedly unfussy food” (Goop) that set today’s trends and is fast becoming a modern classic. “This is not a cookbook. It’s a treasure map.”—Samin Nosrat, author of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY San Francisco Chronicle • NPR • Epicurious • Newsday • KCRW’s Good Food • The Fader • American Express Essentials Alison Roman’s Salted Butter and Chocolate Chunk Shortbread made her Instagram-famous. But all of the recipes in Dining In have one thing in common: they make even the most oven-phobic or restaurant-crazed person want to stay home and cook. They prove that casual doesn’t have to mean boring, simple doesn’t have to be uninspired, and that more steps or ingredients don’t always translate to a better plate of food. Vegetable-forward but with an affinity for a mean steak and a deep regard for fresh fish, Dining In is all about building flavor and saving time. Alison’s ingenuity seduces seasoned cooks, while her warm, edgy writing makes these recipes practical and approachable enough for the novice. With 125 recipes for effortlessly chic dishes that are full of quick-trick techniques (think slathering roast chicken in anchovy butter, roasting citrus to ramp up the flavor, and keeping boiled potatoes in the fridge for instant crispy smashed potatoes), she proves that dining in brings you just as much joy as eating out. Praise for Dining In “Sorry, restaurants. Superstar Alison Roman has given us recipes so delicious, so meltdown-proof—and so fun to read—we’re going to be cooking at home for a while. Quite possibly forever.”—Christine Muhlke, editor at large, Bon Appétit “Anyone who wants the aesthetic, quality, and creativity of a Brooklyn restaurant without having to go to a Brooklyn restaurant will love Alison Roman’s cookbook. It’s filled with recipes that are both unique and approachable. Reading it, you’ll find yourself thinking ‘I would have never thought of making this but I want to make it right now.’”—BuzzFeed “Dining In is exactly how I want to cook: with bright, fresh flavors, minimal technique, and no pretense. This isn’t just a bunch of great recipes, but a manifesto on how one original, opinionated home cook sees the world.”—Amanda Hesser, co-founder, Food52

Smart Casual

Smart Casual
Author: Alison Pearlman
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2013-04-15
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 022602993X

Fine dining and the accolades of Michelin stars once meant chandeliers, white tablecloths, and suited waiters with elegant accents. The stuffy attitude and often scant portions were the punchlines of sitcom jokes—it was unthinkable that a gourmet chef would stoop to plate a burger or a taco in his kitchen. And yet today many of us will queue up for a seat at a loud, crowded noodle bar or eagerly seek out that farm-to-table restaurant where not only the burgers and fries are organic but the ketchup is homemade—but it’s not just us: the critics will be there too, ready to award distinction. Haute has blurred with homey cuisine in the last few decades, but how did this radical change happen, and what does it say about current attitudes toward taste? Here with the answers is food writer Alison Pearlman. In Smart Casual:The Transformation of Gourmet Restaurant Style in America, Pearlman investigates what she identifies as the increasing informality in the design of contemporary American restaurants. By design, Pearlman does not just mean architecture. Her argument is more expansive—she is as interested in the style and presentation of food, the business plan, and the marketing of chefs as she is in the restaurant’s floor plan or menu design. Pearlman takes us hungrily inside the kitchens and dining rooms of restaurants coast to coast—from David Chang’s Momofuku noodle bar in New York to the seasonal, French-inspired cuisine of Alice Waters and Thomas Keller in California to the deconstructed comfort food of Homaro Cantu’s Moto in Chicago—to explore the different forms and flavors this casualization is taking. Smart Casual examines the assumed correlation between taste and social status, and argues that recent upsets to these distinctions have given rise to a new idea of sophistication, one that champions the omnivorous. The boundaries between high and low have been made flexible due to our desire to eat everything, try everything, and do so in a convivial setting. Through lively on-the-scene observation and interviews with major players and chefs, Smart Casual will transport readers to restaurants around the country to learn the secrets to their success and popularity. It is certain to give foodies and restaurant-goers something delectable to chew on.

In the Restaurant

In the Restaurant
Author: Christoph Ribbat
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2018-06-19
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1782273085

The deliciously cosmopolitan story of the restaurant from eighteenth-century Paris to El Bulli What does eating out tell us about who we are? The restaurant is where we go to celebrate, to experience pleasure, to see and be seen - or, sometimes, just because we're hungry. But these temples of gastronomy hide countless stories. As this dazzlingly entertaining, eye-opening book shows, the restaurant is where performance, fashion, commerce, ritual, class, work and desire all come together. Through its windows, we can glimpse the world. This is the tale of the restaurant in all its guises, from the first formal establishments in eighteenth-century Paris serving 'restorative' bouillon, to today's new Nordic cuisine, via grand Viennese cafés and humble fast food joints. Here are tales of cooks who spend hours arranging rose petals for Michelin stars, of the university that teaches the consistency of the perfect shake, of the lunch counter that sparked a protest movement, of the writers - from Proust to George Orwell - who have been inspired or outraged by the restaurant's secrets.

Jacques Pépin New Complete Techniques

Jacques Pépin New Complete Techniques
Author: Jacques Pépin
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 740
Release: 2012-11-13
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1480401609

The “concise, informative, indispensable” work by the grand master of cooking skills and methods—now completely revised and updated (Anthony Bourdain). For decades, Jacques Pépin has set the standard for culinary greatness and mastery of French cuisine—ever since his seminal works on kitchen how-tos, La Méthode and La Technique, hit the shelves in the seventies. Now Pépin revisits the works that made him a household name in a completely revised and updated edition of his classic book. Filled with thousands of photographs demonstrating techniques; new advice and tips; and hundreds of recipes ranging from simple to sublime, this is the must-have manual for any kitchen aficionado. Pépin offers step-by-step instructions on every aspect of cooking, including: learning basics, such as how to use knives correctly and how to cut a flawless julienne; conquering classic recipes, such as crêpes suzette and hollandaise sauce; creating whimsical and elegant decorations, such as olive rabbits and tomato flowers; tackling inventive ways of becoming a culinary superstar, such as turning an old refrigerator into a makeshift smoker; and much more. No matter the recipe or skill, Pépin has time-tested instructions on how to do it like the pros—and Jacques Pépin New Complete Techniques brings all of the master chef’s secrets into one easy-to-use guide, guaranteed to please any palate, wow any guest, and turn any home cook into a gastronomic expert.

Dining by Design

Dining by Design
Author: Edie Lee Cohen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1984
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Abstract: Guidelines for creating the special mystique that marks a successful restaurant are outlined in this beautifully illustrated guide for interior designers and restauranteurs. A combination of factors related to design, table service, and food work together to make a restaurant successful. Designers, clients, and restauranteurs must be willing to take risks in order to create a facility that is novel enough to be entertaining and memorable. Descriptions are provided of well-designed restaurants, how they were conceived, and the factors that led to their success. Characteristics important to restaurants' success such as ambience, lighting, acoustics, graphics, and budgets are discussed in in-depth interviews with experts in these fields. Categories of restaurantsfor which specific descriptions are provided include fast food facilities, hotel dining facilities, ballrooms, clubs and discotheques, bars and cocktail lounges, and corporate dining facilities. Restaurants with unique themes, architectural approaches, or historic designs are also described. Beautiful color photographs and design layouts of selected restaurants supplement the text. (aje).

Streeteries

Streeteries
Author: Peggy Taylor
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-11-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9781006282874

"Streeteries" showcases the creativity, ingenuity, and innovation New York City restaurateurs deployed when the pandemic prohibited indoor dining and they were allowed to set up shop on sidewalks and in the street. Their huts, bubbles, cabins, and cabanas helped New Yorkers hold onto one of their favorite pastimes and provided much-needed relief from pandemic stress.

Delicious Dating

Delicious Dating
Author: Babe Scott
Publisher:
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2011-06-01
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780984452729

This tongue-in-chic tome is not your run-of-the-salt-mill dating book. It's side-splittingly funny and unapologetically saucy. Apart from plenty of giggles, Babe Scott also serves up some life-changing advice for any woman looking for a delicious love life. She shows readers how to work out how a man is going to pan out as a boyfriend and in the bedroom from the very first dinner date. Hailed as the "Da Vinci Code to dating and dining," she shows women how to read the clues encrypted in his culinary style, so they can work out who is worthy of a second helping. A self-described manthropologist, Babe dined with more than 100 men during her yearlong study of the male species. She also interviewed 200 more men and women about the connection between a man's culinary style and his mating style. Her astonishing insights will help women recognize who is their perfect male dish as well as show them how to get him on a platter.