Best Italian Classics
Author: Cooks Illustrated
How do you keep pesto from turning brown? What kind of tomatoes make the best sauce? Should you add oil to pasta cooking water? In an exhaustive effort to answer these questions and hundreds more, the staff at America's Test Kitchen conducted thousands of kitchen tests. The result is a cookbook that gives you more than 300 recipes for reliable Italian classics that we've adapted for the American home cook without losing sight of their fundamental nature. All the essentials are here, from breaded chicken cutlets and Parmesan risotto to veal scaloppini and sausage calzones. Family favorites such as eggplant Parmesan, spaghetti and meatballs, lemon roast chicken, and tiramisu have been updated and streamlined.
In The Best Italian Classics you'll also find more than 225 illustrations that show you how to peel garlic cloves quickly, roll out pasta dough, and skin hazelnuts. Dozens of no-nonsense equipment ratings and taste tests of supermarket ingredients are also included. Find out why American pastas are every bit as good as Italian brands and which grater makes quick work of Parmesan cheese. Step into our kitchen and learn how to make real Italian food, quickly and easily.
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Desserts By the Yard: From Brooklyn to Beverly Hills: Recipes from the Sweetest Life Ever
Author: Sherry Yard
Spago's pastry chef to the stars and author of the James Beard Award-winning Secrets of Baking shares the recipes that propelled her to the top of her profession
Night after night at Spago in Beverly Hills, Sherry Yard dazzles the powerful, rich, and famous with incredible desserts. Her marvelous confections have won over patrons from Madonna to Frank Sinatra. Now the country's premier pastry chef reveals the recipes that have made her a star in her own right and won her two coveted James Beard Awards.
Desserts by the Yard begins with inspirations from Yard's childhood, such as My Favorite White Birthday Cake with Chocolate and Butter Fudge Frosting, and culminates in the spectacular creations she makes every year for the Academy Awards. Included here are some of Yard's most famous recipes: the slinky crème brûlée she perfected when she worked at New York's Rainbow Room, the coffeecake that made Campton Place Hotel San Francisco's most popular breakfast spot, and the souffléed crème fraîche pancakes with strawberry sauce she learned in Vienna. Don't miss the chocolate caramel tart that Hugh Grant loves, former President Clinton's favorite oatmeal raisin cookies, or the treat that made actress Suzanne Pleshette exclaim, "Bitch! You're gonna make me fat!"
Desserts don't get easier than Yard's No-Bake Cheesecake, more decadent than Chocolate Bread Pudding with Butterscotch Gelato, or more holiday-perfect than Triple Silken Pumpkin Pie. In sidebars to each recipe, Yard shares tricks and techniques along with hilarious anecdotes that show her pluck, determination, andgenerosity.
Publishers Weekly
Brooklyn-born Yard worked her way up to reign as Hollywood and Beverly Hills queen of sweet. Executive pastry chef of Puck's Spago empire, she annually creates 1,700 or so perfect desserts for the Governors Ball following the Oscars, such as mousse-filled chocolate boxes on power-painted red carpets the year Julia Roberts won for Erin Brockovich. But Yard hasn't forgotten the rapturous tastes of her childhood; along with celeb-studded, look-at-me tales of her lofty successes, she offers tender memories and recipes for such favorites as Italian bakery Rainbow Cookies. Yard actually delivers what every cookbook promises: news for the professional and foolproof secrets for the avid amateur. From her finger-stirred sugar-water-corn syrup caramel to her assembly-line masterpieces, every ingredient is necessary and every direction makes sense. Fruit desserts, her special passion, transport the reader to Eden. Comprehensive, well-organized and meaningfully illustrated, Yard's book may be the new dessert bible. Color photos not seen by PW. (Nov.)
Copyright 2007 Reed Business InformationPauline Baughman - Library Journal
Award-winning executive pastry chef Yard (The Secrets of Baking) chronicles her success and the recipes she developed as she worked her way from New York to Wolfgang Puck's celebrated restaurants in California, stopping in London and Vienna in between. Influenced by the sweets of her childhood (e.g., Girl Scout cookies), the desserts of Vienna (e.g., Sacher torte), and local farmers' market produce, Yard's 120 original and classic (with a twist) recipes cover an array of delectable cakes, pies, cookies, and frozen desserts. Among the standouts are Chocolate Macaroons with Black Currant Tea Ice Cream and Raspberries and Banana Crème Brûlée Pie. Instructions are easy to follow, and sidebars offer secrets for success. A decadent dessert book sure to inspire home cooks and professionals alike; highly recommended. (Color photos and index not seen.)
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