Daniel Orr Real Food: Smart & Simple Meals and Menus for Entertaining

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Summary: Unreal and Complicated
Review: I do not believe I will ever make any of the dishes in this book. Full of offbeat and hard to obtain ingredients. Perhaps suitable for a professional chef who has access to such items as fresh squid-ink pasta or pickle masala. Real food? Simple? Nope.

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Summary: Hard to Find
Review: I wrote this book as a way to show cooks and armchair cooks the other side of my kitchen personality. At NYC's La Grenouille it is all about richness, at home it is about clean flavors. I want to show everyone how much fun it is to cook and how much it adds to your life.Many of the recipes are one pot affairs that are easy to clean up after and most of the everyday recipes are for 2 so there isn't alot of extra food left-over. I know you'll love the book and by the way it makes a great gift for the holidays for people that love to cook everyday. Let me know how you like it.

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Summary: these recipes don't have to be fixed
Review: this is one of the VERY few cookbooks i have ever used in which the recipes can be made, in most cases, "by the book". most cookbooks do not give complete instructions, and most recipes if made exactly according to the book, seem to "need" something. This one hits everything right on the mark with bright, clean flavors, clear instructions, easy-to-procure ingredients (no peeky toe crab! ) and GOOD for your health components that actually taste wonderful. I was a professional cook for twenty years, and in most cases I just use cookbooks as a source for menu ideas, not actual recipes. This is one book I actually cook from. Thanks, Daniel. MORE!

Rating:
Summary: Unreal and Complicated
Review: this is one of the VERY few cookbooks i have ever used in which the recipes can be made, in most cases, "by the book". most cookbooks do not give complete instructions, and most recipes if made exactly according to the book, seem to "need" something. This one hits everything right on the mark with bright, clean flavors, clear instructions, easy-to-procure ingredients (no peeky toe crab! ) and GOOD for your health components that actually taste wonderful. I was a professional cook for twenty years, and in most cases I just use cookbooks as a source for menu ideas, not actual recipes. This is one book I actually cook from. Thanks, Daniel. MORE!