Product Description: Imagine having a Michelin-starred chef as your best friend. Someone who would share your love of good food and divulge the culinary expertise that would guarantee all your dishes really work. Meet John Campbell, acclaimed chef at Lords of the Manor, one of Britain's most luxurious hotels. Here he distills years of hard work and meticulous study in the gastronomic arts and sciences into a concise selection of foolproof gourmet recipes that lovers of fine dining can enjoy at home. Your tastebuds will thrill to the exciting combinations of quality ingredients on John's menus, but best of all, he takes you step-by-step through every stage of each dish's execution, explaining not only what to do when cooking, but how and why. You will be the envy of friends, and well on the way to developing your own signature dishes.
Amazing Classical and contemporary at the same time, this is one of the most thorough cookbooks i own. Would suit both the home cook and professionals. Great source of inspiration
A good path to gourmet cooking at home I've tried all the recipes in this book and...WOW what a food paradise the author creates in your home. Almost every recipe is great (I just had a neutral feeling about a few of them) and they often make use of unconventional methods of cooking or combining ingredients (e.g. onion ice cream). However, how strange that may sound, the combinations are actually really nice and innovative. The only thing you need to remember is that you'll have to spend much more time with these recipes than with the traditional "scrambled eggs recipes". But the sensation to your palate will be heavenly!
Formulas for Flavour I have gone thru this cook book more than any other cook book. I think this is absolutely stunning in many ways. It gives you dishes with pretty much classic taste combinations but then adds flavours in different unusual places ex. crab risotto with avocado sorbet.
Althought this shows very clearly how dishes are put together I think a professional chef is the one who still gets most out of this book. He also has special section about food chemistry.
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