The Art of Gay Cooking

The Art of Gay Cooking
Author: Daniel Isengart
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781944853495

For Daniel Isengart, home cooking has always been an essential part of living a creative life. A cabaret performer and sought-after private chef in New York City, he knows how to deliver one delectable meal after another with the ease of a seasoned entertainer. The Art of Gay Cooking is a witty literary portrait that takes the reader from the author's grandmother's kitchen in southern Germany to his formative childhood years in Paris, from the attic apartment in Brooklyn Heights where he lives with his husband to his clients' posh homes in Manhattan and the Hamptons. Alternating intimate anecdotes and wry observations about the culinary world with over 250 easy-to-follow recipes, the book explores a rich, gay life devoted to beauty and art where the home kitchen always takes center stage. Jeremiah Tower, the eminent Godfather of modern American cooking, adds words of wisdom in his candid Foreword that describes how Isengart's inspired approach to cooking brought back memories of his own beginnings as the original chef of the legendary Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley. Cleverly composed as an homage to The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook, The Art of Gay Cooking adheres closely to Toklas's idiosyncratic style, mirroring specific passages and echoing her amusingly eccentric tone. A chapter devoted to recipes from friends presents a poignant contrast to the limelight on celebrity chefs and restaurant food, proving that, at least in Isengart's lively social circle of individualists, sophisticated yet unpretentious home-cooking is not a lost art.

The Gay Cookbook

The Gay Cookbook
Author: Chef Lou Rand Hogan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2020-04-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781939438935

In the sensous sixties, Chef Hogan wrote his Wild and Wacky book. A reprint of the original edition, when the author was decades ahead of his time. The Gay Cookbook is filled with the jokes and innuendo of the time. Even on the frontispiece, in the book's first pages, a line reads "All rights reserved, Mary." An essential part of mid-century campy dialogue, was the use of female nicknames among gay men: Hogan addresses the reader by many, including Myrtle, Mabel, and Mame. The recipes are lengthy and chatty. But while written humorously, the recipes often are complex and cosmopolitan. While his repertoire includes French and American classics, it also features Mexican, Southeast Asian, and Hawaiian recipes. For a guacamole recipe, Hogan gives the basics as avocado, tomatoes, fresh lime, and salt. Those wanting to mix it up can add onion and spices, he writes, but he forbids more variation. "This is an 'original' Mexican recipe," he writes, "before it's been crapped up by some Hollywood or Brooklyn chef." Hogan also explains how to prepare an elaborate rijsttafel buffet, a many-coursed Indonesian banquet with roots in Dutch colonialism. A chili recipe spans several pages and requires hours of cooking.

The Gay Man's Cookbook

The Gay Man's Cookbook
Author: Skylar Blue
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2011-04-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9781456496722

From foolproof, dependable recipes to reliable how-to advice, The Gay Man's Cookbook(r) has everything you need for the way you cook today. Whether you're a new or experienced cook, The Gay Man's Cookbook is the book for you! There are few things more important in Gay culture than food and many of the most iconic Gay dishes have made their way firmly into mainstream culture. Who doesn't know that Beef soup -- or Boy Hole Stew - is guaranteed to help you if you have a cold or flu. And, whilst you may not associate the stereotype of the gay man with ever venturing remotely near the kitchen, Gay Men - and they know who they are - know that even in the 21st century eating remains at the heart of gay life. The authors of this irreverent cookbook have produced a host of fabulous traditional as well as nouveau dishes of Gay cuisine. A foolproof guide to the ultimate Friday night dinner sits alongside a delicious new twist on Stuffed Avocado -- Barebacked Avocado anyone? There are also hilarious gems of Gay Men wisdom scattered throughout - 'What does a Gay Man make for dinner?' 'Reservations!' Reading this book it's easy to see that we all have a little bit of the Gay Man inside us - it's more than just a cookbook - IT'S A WAY OF LIFE!

Queering the Kitchen

Queering the Kitchen
Author: Daniel Isengart
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-08-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781944853501

A manifesto for reclaiming the lost history and influence of gay men in the culinary arts. Gay identity has long been openly linked to the decorative and performing arts--fashion, interior design, dance, opera, and theater. Isengart aims to add the kitchen to the list. Even though gay men widely populate America's food industries, their role and impact remain firmly in the closet. Queering The Kitchen is a grand coming-out. Gay men's history of culinary sophistication dates back to a time when socializing was safer behind closed doors--at home, the only place where they could be themselves and let their hair down, or wear that wig. Isengart explores these hidden histories and customs, while reminding us of gay lives only recently in the light--including Dean & Deluca, James Beard, Craig Clayborne, Graham Kerr and many others. With the rise of gay identity, Isengart charts a concurrent counter-swing with the rise of Emeril Live and other media phenomena, erasing a movement of culinary refinement and replacing it with a lowbrow circus for beginners. Sometimes brutal, other times nuanced, the history charted by Isengart extends to the macho bro-kitchens of Anthony Bourdain and the superior skills of many lesbian chefs. With Queering The Kitchen, Isengart offers a spirited and well-researched contribution to an ongoing conversation about gay men and America's food.

Cooking with the Bears

Cooking with the Bears
Author: Angelo Sindaco
Publisher: Drago (Roma)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9788898565061

"Now there is a cookbook that rises above the junk--and it's specifically designed for a subculture of hirsute, hyper-masculine homosexuals. That's right: Bears just got their very own cookbook."-Vice Munchies.Cooking with the Bears is the first and only book that uniquely captures "bears" creating delicious Italian dishes in their own kitchens. Photographer Angelo Sindaco explores this fascinating culture through a series of "intimate portraits" that "seize the soul, the spirit, and the style of his subjects." -Satellite Magazine.From Gramigna with Sausages to Guinness Cake, from Folktronic Spaghetti to Alternative Caponata, the 32 distinctive recipes in this cook-book offer an entertaining insight into cooking in the bear's den. The book even features a foreword by Mike Enders, the founder of AccidentalBear.com, the benchmark for gay art, culture, fashion and music.

Poor Man's Feast

Poor Man's Feast
Author: Elissa Altman
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2013-03-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1452107599

In this engaging memoir, Elissa Altman, author of the popular Poor Man's Feast blog, chronicles her lifelong relationship with all things culinary, and the transformation she experiences -- from culinary trend-aholic to a champion of simplicity -- when she finally finds love. Short chapters sprinkled with recipes show that living and eating well are much simpler than we might think --

Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking

Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking
Author: Marcella Hazan
Publisher: Knopf
Total Pages: 737
Release: 2011-07-20
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0307958302

A beautiful new edition of one of the most beloved cookbooks of all time, from “the Queen of Italian Cooking” (Chicago Tribune). A timeless collection of classic Italian recipes—from Basil Bruschetta to the only tomato sauce you’ll ever need (the secret ingredient: butter)—beautifully illustrated and featuring new forewords by Lidia Bastianich and Victor Hazan “If this were the only cookbook you owned, neither you nor those you cooked for would ever get bored.” —Nigella Lawson Marcella Hazan introduced Americans to a whole new world of Italian food. In this, her magnum opus, she gives us a manual for cooks of every level of expertise—from beginners to accomplished professionals. In these pages, home cooks will discover: • Minestrone alla Romagnola • Tortelli Stuffed with Parsley and Ricotta • Risotto with Clams • Squid and Potatoes, Genoa Style • Chicken Cacciatora • Ossobuco in Bianco • Meatballs and Tomatoes • Artichoke Torta • Crisp-Fried Zucchini blossoms • Sunchoke and Spinach Salad • Chestnuts Boiled in Red Wine, Romagna Style • Polenta Shortcake with Raisins, Dried Figs, and Pine Nuts • Zabaglione • And much more This is the go-to Italian cookbook for students, newlyweds, and master chefs, alike. Beautifully illustrated with line drawings throughout, Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking brings together nearly five hundred of the most delicious recipes from the Italian repertoire in one indispensable volume. As the generations of readers who have turned to it over the years know (and as their spattered and worn copies can attest), there is no more passionate and inspiring guide to the cuisine of Italy.

The Art of Gay Cooking

The Art of Gay Cooking
Author: Daniel J. Isengart
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Caterers and catering
ISBN: 9781696050906

"For Daniel Isengart, home cooking has always been an essential part of living a creative life. A cabaret performer and sought-after private chef in New York City, he knows how to deliver one delectable meal after another with the ease of a seasoned entertainer. The Art of Gay Cooking is a witty literary portrait that takes the reader from the author's grandmother's kitchen in southern Germany to his formative childhood years in Paris, from the attic apartment in Brooklyn Heights where he lives with his husband to his clients' posh homes in Manhattan and the Hamptons. Alternating intimate anecdotes and wry observations about the culinary world with over 250 easy-to-follow recipes, the book explores a rich, gay life devoted to beauty and art where the home kitchen always takes center stage. Jeremiah Tower, the eminent Godfather of modern American cooking, adds words of wisdom in his candid Foreword that describes how Isengart's inspired approach to cooking brought back memories of his own beginnings as the original chef of the legendary Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley. Cleverly composed as an homage to The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook, The Art of Gay Cooking adheres closely to Toklas's idiosyncratic style, mirroring specific passages and echoing her amusingly eccentric tone. A chapter devoted to recipes from friends presents a poignant contrast to the limelight on celebrity chefs and restaurant food, proving that, at least in Isengart's lively social circle of individualists, sophisticated yet unpretentious home-cooking is not a lost art"--Back cover

Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking

Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking
Author: Anya von Bremzen
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2013-09-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0307886832

A James Beard Award-winning writer captures life under the Red socialist banner in this wildly inventive, tragicomic memoir of feasts, famines, and three generations “Delicious . . . A banquet of anecdote that brings history to life with intimacy, candor, and glorious color.”—NPR’s All Things Considered Born in 1963, in an era of bread shortages, Anya grew up in a communal Moscow apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen. She sang odes to Lenin, black-marketeered Juicy Fruit gum at school, watched her father brew moonshine, and, like most Soviet citizens, longed for a taste of the mythical West. It was a life by turns absurd, naively joyous, and melancholy—and ultimately intolerable to her anti-Soviet mother, Larisa. When Anya was ten, she and Larisa fled the political repression of Brezhnev-era Russia, arriving in Philadelphia with no winter coats and no right of return. Now Anya occupies two parallel food universes: one where she writes about four-star restaurants, the other where a taste of humble kolbasa transports her back to her scarlet-blazed socialist past. To bring that past to life, Anya and her mother decide to eat and cook their way through every decade of the Soviet experience. Through these meals, and through the tales of three generations of her family, Anya tells the intimate yet epic story of life in the USSR. Wildly inventive and slyly witty, Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking is that rare book that stirs our souls and our senses. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Christian Science Monitor, Publishers Weekly