Best-selling internationally celebrated author demystifies and simplifies French cooking
Best-selling, internationally celebrated chef Stephane Reynaud pares down delicious French food to its essential best ingredients with 160 one-pot recipes that even the most inexperienced or time-poor cooks will love. There are pre-dinner dips and snacks; hearty vegetarian dishes; simple one-pot recipes for fish, beef, lamb, veal, pork or poultry; slow-cooked roasts, delicately seasoned with herbs and spices; classically simple one-pan desserts such as clafoutis; and even ideas for the perfect cheese course. Stephane has demystified and made simple good French cooking - preparing dinner has never been this easy.
About the Author
Stephane Reynaud is chef and owner of restaurant Villa9Trois in Montreuil, just outside Paris. He won the 2005 Grand Prix de la Gastronomie Francaise with his book Pork & Sons. His other cookbooks include Terrine, Ripailles, Rotis, Stephane Reynaud's 365 Good Reasons to Sit Down to Eat, Pies and Tarts, The Book of Tripe and Gourmet Hot Dog. His latest restaurant, Tratra, is in London's Shoreditch.
Industry Reviews
"Praise for Stephane Reynaud
""The recipes ... remind you of just how simple, and basic, the art of roasting really is. And on a cold, rainy, windy day, there is little more comforting than the most basic instruction of all: 'Heat the oven.'""
-The Los Angeles Times
""Offers recipes for every course and appetite... The son of a butcher, Reynaud grew up eating all manner of meat, innards and scraps, a kind of ratatouille of the flesh... well suited to adherents of the nose-to-tail, no-waste philosophy.""
-Christine Muhlke, The New York Times Magazine
""With Reynaud's books, I always feel as if I can understand just where it is that French food comes from. The dishes tend toward hearty, approachable fare from the French countryside, but the recipes can guide a home cook to new comfort with a sometimes intimidating cuisine.""
-Don and Samantha Lindgren, owners of Rabelais in Portland, Maine, in Bon Appetit
""It might be presumptuous to say that anything could be a one-stop resource on rustic French cooking, but Reynaud's door-stopper cookbook comes pretty close.""
-Booklist
""Always with excitement do I open a cookbook by Stephane Reynaud.... This is the type of book to put next to your night table and read a few pages before going to sleep and to dream of marvelous feasts.""
-Colette Rossant, Super Chef"
