Binding: Hardcover
Description: An exciting debut cookbook that confirms the arrival of a new guru chef A moving deeply personal journey of survival and discovery that tells of the evolution of a cuisine and of the transformative power and magic of food and cooking. From the two - time James Beard Award - winning chef whose celebrated New Orleans restaurants have been hailed as the country's most innovative and best by Bon App tit Food & Wine Saveur GQ and Esquire." Alon's journey is as gripping and as seductive as his cooking Lovely stories terrific food." - - Yotam Ottolenghi author of Jerusalem: A Cookbook" Breathtaking. Bravo." - - Joan Nathan author of King Solomon's Table Alon Shaya's is no ordinary cookbook. It is a memoir of a culinary sensibility that begins in Israel and wends its way from the U. S. A. (Philadelphia) to Italy (Milan and Bergamo) back to Israel (Jerusalem) and comes together in the American South in the heart of New Orleans. It's a book that tells of how food saved the author's life and how through a circuitous path of (cooking) twists and (life - affirming) turns the author's celebrated cuisine - - food of his native Israel with a creole New Orleans kick came to be along with his award - winning New Orleans restaurants: Shaya Domenica and Pizza Domenica ranked by Esquire Bon App tit and others as the best new restaurants in the United States. These are stories of place of people and of the food that connects them a memoir of one man's culinary sensibility with food as the continuum throughout his journey - - guiding his personal and professional decisions punctuating every memory choice every turning point in his life. Interspersed with glorious full - color photographs and illustrations that follow the course of all the flavors Shaya has tried places he's traveled things he's experienced lessons he's learned - - more than one hundred recipes - - from Roasted Chicken with Harissa to Speckled Trout with Tahini and Pine Nuts; Crab Cakes with Preserved Lemon Aioli; Roasted Cast - Iron Ribeye; Marinated Soft Cheese with Herbs and Spices; Buttermilk Biscuits; and Whole Roasted Cauliflower with Whipped Feta.
Title: Shaya An Odyssey Of Food My Journey Back To Israel
Author(s): Shaya Alon
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Barcode: 9780451494160
Pages: 432 Pages, 164 Colour And Black And White Photos
Publication Date: 3/13/2018
Category: National & Regional Cuisine