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- Hardcover: 1040 pages
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Har/DVD edition (September 22, 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 061880692X
- ISBN-13: 978-0618806928
- Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 8.2 x 2.4 inches
Included are recipes from Gourmet contributors like James Beard and Jean-Georges Vongericten, and hundreds of sidebars like “Salad Greens Primer” and “Blind Baking,” all useful and informative. There are classic dishes like onion soup gratin, gefilte fish, corn fritters, and peanut butter cookies; “new classics” such as fried calamari and spaghetti alla carbonara; and the “modern,” including oatmeal brule with macerated berries and grilled lobster with orange chipotle vinaigrette–”every recipe you’d ever want,” says the text, something of an understatement. Cooks should know, however, that this is not a basic cookbook, despite its Noah’s ark of formulas. Rather, it’s a Gourmet cookbook, which means that, notwithstanding some rudimentary recipes, the focus is on the stylishly up-to-date (which is not to deny the excellence of the formulas), resulting, often, in refinements. Thus its recipe for mac and cheese calls for dijon mustard and panko; its beef stroganoff requires cremini mushrooms; its grilled chicken calls for brining; and so on. Recipes can also run to over 450 words, and require unusual ingredients. (A list of sources is provided.)