Product Description

Renowned chef, author, and television personality Rick Bayless has prepared gourmet meals for his share of celebrities. But when asked about his most memorable cooking experiences, he immediately answers, "with my family and friends, at my home or theirs-whether around the block or around the globe." Lanie Bayless has grown up cooking and eating with her chef-dad in their restaurant, at their home, and in other people's homes from Oklahoma City to Tokyo-with stops in Mexico, Morocco, France, Thailand, and Peru along the way. But her perspective is different from his. He's the celebrated chef with decades of cooking and traveling experience, and she's a teenager with ideas of her own.

Rick & Lanie's Excellent Kitchen Adventures is a lively, multigenerational dialogue between two not-always-like-minded cooks. Each brings a unique outlook to the wide variety of flavors, cooking techniques, ingredients, and travel experiences they shared during the four years they worked on this book.

For Rick, sharing a meal is one of the most powerful catalysts for common understanding between parents and kids, friends and families, and people from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. This unique cookbook of more than 100 international classics (as well as down-home American favorites) offers simple, step-by-step recipes that will draw everyone to the table. Here the wisdom and experience of a famous chef are transformed into the everyday advice of an at-home dad.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #346405 in Books
• Published on: 2006-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 232 pages

About the Author
Rick Bayless is the chef-proprietor of Chicago's hugely successful Frontera Grill and its elegant neighbor, Topolobampo. He has been named Chef of the Year by the prestigious IACP and the James Beard Foundation. He is the author of four best-selling cookbooks and has produced and starred in two public television series, the second of which is in its fourth season.

Lanie Bayless grew up in a restaurant-literally. She has a room just above the Frontera Grill's kitchen. Lanie learned a lot of what she knows about food and cooking from her parents.

CHRISTOPHER HIRSHEIMER is the photographer of Authentic Vietnamese Cooking, The New Irish Table, and Fried & True.

Customer Reviews

Great step by step family cooking
This is a great cookbook for family cooking with step by step instructions. Highlights prep work to do first before everyone starts cooking. Family meals from all over the world - that Rick and his family have traveled to. Will encourage you to try new things with your kids or maybe encourage your kids to get in the kitchen and cook the family a meal.

Cooking Around the World
"Rick and Lanie's Excellent Kitchen Adventures" is a perfect description for this book. Renowned Chicago chef Rick Bayless,who's recently sworn off rumors that he'll be cooking it up at the White House, collaborates with his daughter in a culinary journey. Bayless' Mexican restaurants are favorites with the soon-to-be First Family, and his cooking is for President and everyday people alike.

In "Kitchen Adventures",Rick and Lanie explore the cuisines of France,Mexico,Thailand,Morocco,and Peru. It's pleasant to see they don't delve into the usual Latin American cooking. Peruvian cuisine is underrated--and as Lanie jokes-it's all about potatoes! There's a delightful familial interplay throughout the book.

"Kitchen Adventures" is a sonic pleasure as well. The Baylesses recommend world music to play while cooking. There are A LOT of Putumayo compilations. In the Thai section,they recommend "Asian Groove";in the Moroccan section,they recommend "Arabic Groove." It turns out the Bayless family not only has good taste in food,but music also.

"Kitchen Adventures" is a delicious global journey.

Yummy, yummy!
I LOVE this cookbook!!! Love it! I've only tried some of the mexican recipes so far but have a bunch of others on my to-do list.