The French Laundry Cookbook

The cookbook, Keller's first, is as satisfying as a French Laundry meal, a series of small, highly refined, intensely focused courses. One hundred fifty recipes and over two hundred photographs capture the impact of this extraordinary food. Keller's wit and whimsy find expression in unique recipes (and titles) such as lobster-filled crepes with a carrot emulsion sauce, topped with a pea shoot salad dressed lightly with lemon-infused oil ("Peas and Carrots"), or sauteed monkfish tail with braised oxtails, salsify, and cepes ("Surf and Turf"). This is read more...not only a book to cook from, to learn from, to savor; it's one that will let you re-create at home the experience of eating at the French Laundry, which the Wine Spectator says is "as close to dining perfection as it gets." By Thomas Keller, Susie Heller, Deborah Jones (photography)Hardcover, 325 pagesISBN # 1579651267    (hide)