How to Cook Like a Man: A Memoir of Cookbook Obsession - Brossura

Duane, Daniel

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ISBN 10: 1620400669 ISBN 13: 9781620400661

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury USA, 2013

Riassunto

When Daniel Duane became a father, this San Francisco surfer and climber found himself trapped at home with no clue how to contribute. Inept at so many domestic tasks, and less than eager to change nappies, he took on dinner duty. Duane had a few tricks: pasta, stir-fry ... well, actually, those were his only two tricks. But he had a biographical anomaly: Chef Alice Waters had been his preschool teacher. So he cracked one of her Chez Panisse cookbooks and cooked his way through it. And so it went with all seven of her other cookbooks, then on to those of other famous chefs-thousands of recipes in all, amounting to an epic eight-year cooking journey.

Butchering whole lambs at home, teaching himself to make classic veal stock, even hunting pigs in Maui and fishing for salmon in Alaska, Duane so thoroughly immersed himself in the modern food world that he met and cooked with a striking number of his heroes: writing a book with Alice Waters; learning offal cookery hands-on from the great Fergus Henderson; even finagling seven straight hours of one-on-one private lessons from the chef he admires above all others, Thomas Keller.

Duane's inimitable voice carries us through, with humor and panache, even through a pair of personal tragedies. Here is a writer who can make chopping an onion sound fun and fascinating. But there is more at stake in his wonderful memoir: In the end, Duane learns not just how to cook like a man, but how to be one.

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In this hilarious, touching memoir, Duane leads us on the wild culinary roller coaster of his food-soaked and recipe-drenched mania. (Publishers Weekly)

If cookbooks really drain your giblets, Daniel Duane knows how you feel. When the climber and surfer became a father, his culinary skills were a notch above "pasta boiler." So he spent eight years going through the cookbooks of Alice Waters, Fergus Henderson, Thomas Keller, and other chefs, and charts the perils and rewards to keeping your family's bellies full." (Daily Beast)

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"[Duane] fanatically cooks his way through Alice Waters and her Chez Panisse books in extreme sport fashion, ticking off her recipes as though they were mountain peaks he's conquered." -- The Boston Globe

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• Editore: Bloomsbury USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1620400669
• ISBN 13: 9781620400661
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224