Twelve Recipes (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780062270306)

Winner of the 2015 International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) Cookbook Award

Forewords by Alice Waters and Michael Pollan

In this dazzling, full color cookbook and kitchen manual filled with lush photographs and beautiful drawings, the chef of Alice Waters' Chez Panisse offers basic techniques and essential recipes that will transform anyone into a confident home cook.

When his oldest son was leaving for college, Cal Peternell, the chef of San Francisco's legendary Chez Panisse, realized that, although he regularly made dinners for his family, he'd never taught them the basics of cooking. Based on the life-altering course of instruction he prepared and honed through many phone calls with his son, Twelve Recipes is the ultimate introduction to the kitchen. Peternell focuses on the core foods and dishes that comprise a successful home cook's arsenal, each building skill upon skill--from toast, eggs, and beans, to vinaigrettes, pasta with tomato, and rice, to vegetables, soup, meats, and cake.

Twelve Recipes will help home cooks develop a core repertoire of skills and increase their culinary confidence. Peternell tells you what basic ingredients and tools you need for a particular recipe, and then adds variations to expand your understanding. Each tip, instruction, and recipe connects with others to weave into a larger story that illuminates the connection between food and life. A deeply personal book, it was written by the chef alone and it glows with warmth and humor as he mulls over such mundane items as toast and rice to offer surprising new insights about foods that only seem exceedingly ordinary. It's a book you're as likely to keep by your bedside as your stovetop. With Peternell as your guide, the journey is pure pleasure and the destination is delicious.

Twelve Recipes features gorgeous color photos and inset illustrations by Peternell's wife and sons (all artists), and forewords by celebrated chef Alice Waters and New York Times columnist and bestselling author Michael Pollan.

Author: Cal Peternell
ISBN-10: 0062270303
ISBN-13: 9780062270306
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Language: English
Published: 10/21/2014
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.10lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.90w x 1.30d
Award: IACP Crystal Whisk Award - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 05/15/2014 pg. 49
Library Journal 10/15/2014 pg. 116
Publishers Weekly 10/20/2014
Shelf Awareness 12/05/2014
New York Times Book Review 12/07/2014 pg. 66
Entertainment Weekly 01/16/2015 pg. 67