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What if you could invite Alice Waters, M. F. K. Fisher, and Marcella Hazan into your kitchen as you make dinner? Imagine Julia Child looking over your shoulder as you prepare Julia's Lobster Newberg, or Gina Batali giving you her prized recipe for Batali Family Stuffed Artichokes?

Les Dames d'Escoffier International (LDEI) is the premier association of female culinary professionals, started in 1973 in response to the all-male Les Amis d'Escoffier. In the organization's first national cookbook, the Dames share their most essential dishes--the ones they cook at home for family and friends. Here are such delights as Lidia Bastianich's hearth-warming Pork Rib Guazzetto, Susan Feniger's Roasted Black Cod with Horseradish Coulis and Farmers' Carrots, Anne Willan's elegant Twice-Baked Spinach Soufflés, and Alice Medrich's Bittersweet Soufflés with Nibby Cream.

More than 125 recipes provide the range from appetizers to salads and soups, main courses (including vegetarian options) and sides to baking and desserts. Cooking with Les Dames d'Escoffier also offers up a wonderfully eclectic and informed array of foodie sidebars: the lowdown on screw-cap wines, how boxed phyllo dough can be a lifesaver, how to pair beverages and food, new ways to enjoy caviar, favorite kitchen tools, how to perfectly turn out a cake from its pan, and much more.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #123226 in Books
• Published on: 2008-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 368 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781570615306
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From School Library Journal
Les Dames d'Escoffier is a professional organization of women chefs, food writers, caterers, purveyors, and others that was established in 1973 and today has more than 1300 members, many of them culinary stars. Their first cookbook includes dozens of recipes ranging from Grilled Gazpacho Salad with Shrimp to Black Cod with Horseradish Coulis. Despite its rather pretentious subtitle and references to each contributor as a "Dame"—as in "New York City Dame Lidia Bastianich"—the book has the feel of an upscale community cookbook, though the recipes, of course, are generally more sophisticated. With helpful tips, beverage suggestions, and make-ahead notes; for larger collections.
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From Booklist
The women who star in the nation’s restaurant kitchens and who produce and edit the country’s cookbooks, food magazines, newspapers, and television programs have organized for mutual support and advancement of their profession’s highest goals. Many of these women, such as Julia Child and Joanne Weir, are household names, so any cookbook to which they contribute is bound to be a gold mine of recipes and popular with all sorts of cooks. Many styles and traditions appear here, but all focus on fresh and seasonal ingredients. Lighter recipes, such as bacon-and-egg breakfast-for-dinner salad, attract the more refined home cook. Lidia Bastianich supplies a hearty pasta sauce based on pork ribs. Prosciutto-wrapped turkey breast stuffed with basil and Brie makes a great summer grill presentation. Food scientist Shirley Corriher outlines a very detailed method for producing a rich, soft-center chocolate cake. Something for everyone here. --Mark Knoblauch

Review
Publish a cookbook? No problem for a prestigious women's organization of more than 1,300 leaders in the food, beverage, and hospitality industry. With a diverse membership of chefs and restaurateurs, food stylists and photographers, editors and educators, publicists and entrepreneurs--all of them ready at the stove and computer, Cooking with Les Dames d'Escoffier was a project meant to be.

"If you have ever wanted to make a meal with the same care, skill and know-how as Julia Child, Cooking with Les Dames d'Escoffier is for you." --Seattle Homes and Lifestyles Magazine, October 2008

Customer Reviews

A Kitchen-Changing Cookbook
I've done the best cooking of my life since I got COOKING WITH LES DAMES D'ESCOFFIER. With this cookbook you invite LES DAMES, women everyone should know, into your kitchen. You begin with their favorite recipes chosen out of an abundant melting pot of great recipes. Then as you cook, they are "tapping you on your shoulder" with just those tips you need to make the recipe turn out great--from the "dip and sweep" method of measuring flour to the perfect finishing touches to make your dish look divine--a garnish of sauteed spinach, a drizzle of olive oil, or a glaze of rose water and confectioners' sugar. With the detailed directions for these obviously thoroughly tested recipes, what looks complicated is amazingly easy, and downright enjoyable in the doing and in the dining. The sidebars with cooking lore as well as shopping and serving advice from LES DAMES add to your culinary experience. If you're like me, you'll leave your kitchen eager to return to try something new or to make again your new favorite. And, this cookbook, a new favorite gift to give my friends, with its inviting layout and beautiful photographs--and did I mention the flavorful content?

Les Dammes D'Escoffier
Since I purchased the book a few weeks ago, I tried a few of the recipes. The book is very well written and it is very easy to follow. The recipes that I made were amazing and I'm looking forward to trying the others. I purchased a few more as Christmas presents. I am sure my friends will enjoy it as much as I have.

Best organized Cookbook ever!
This cookbook is amazingly well written with clear instructions. With so many well known and accomplished women of food having contributed recipes, it can seem intimidating, but Marcella Rosen did a great job at making this accessible for the average cook.
I have tried many of the recipes and they are fabulous! This is a cookbook to give to friends who love food. It is a buy, buy, buy.