Purveyors Hustle to Get on the French Laundry's Menu
Selling their goods to the French Laundry gives suppliers some serious street cred, so some go to great lengths to get in there. Gaining admission to the French Laundry kitchen is the food equivalent...
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Fernand Point's Ma Gastronomie
"There are many people who claim to be good cooks; just as there are many people who, after having repainted the garden gate, take themselves to be painters." A new edition of Fernand Point's 1969 Ma...
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Thomas Keller's Under Pressure by the Numbers
Number of photographs of Thomas Keller that appear in Under Pressure (buy at Amazon), his new cookbook dedicated to the art of sous vide: 10 Number in which he is frowning: 7 Number in which he is...
View Article20-course, $1500 Dinner by Keller and Achatz [update]
Pete Wells reports on an insane dinner by Thomas Keller and Grant Achatz: Columbus Circle will be the center of the culinary universe for a few hours tonight as two of the country’s most acclaimed...
View ArticleDetails from the $1500 Dinner by Keller and Achatz
Pete Wells a behind the scenes look at the the pre-service meeting for the $1500 dinner by Thomas Keller and Grant Achatz . Taking detailed questions from the servers about the dishes, Achatz says,...
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Styrofoam Cups in Thomas Keller's Under Pressure [shocker]
From left: Corey Lee, chef du cuisine of the French Laundry, Jonathan Benno, chef de cuisine of per se, Thomas Keller Flipping through Thomas Keller's Under Pressure (buy at Amazon), we couldn't help...
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Thomas Keller's Gingerbread Recipe
The food section of Yahoo's women-targeting website, Shine, is the sort of thing that explains the existence of the phrase "oft-execrable." But let it never be said that they have no redeeming content...
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Wallpaper Magazine's Global Happy Meal Includes Thomas Keller's Fried Chicken...
Wallpaper magazine came up with an "ultimate happy meal" made up of three components from around the globe: the fried chicken from Thomas Keller's Ad Hoc (Yountville, California), the duck fat french...
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Big Deals: Thomas Keller's Ad Hoc at Home
Photo by inuyaki.com Update: The book is out! Read our review of Ad Hoc at Home. Not exactly a deal, since (we presume) the contract was struck simultaneously with the one for Bouchon or Under...
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Ad Hoc at Home Cookbook Cover
Update: The book is out! Read our review of Ad Hoc at Home. Here's the newly-released cover of the upcoming Ad Hoc at Home, the cookbook featuring recipes from the kitchen of Thomas Keller's more...
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The Eat Me Daily Fall 2009 Cookbook Preview
Autumn brings more than just falling leaves and the return of legitimate root vegetables: it's also when publishing houses drop their most ambitious cookbook offerings, hoping to tap into the spirit...
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The Eat Me Daily Fall 2009 Non-Cookbook Preview
While fall truly belongs to the cookbooks, there's still a large selection on deck for the food lovers who are less than kitchen inclined. Along with anthologies from The New York Times (Eat, Memory)...
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IACP Adds Three New Categories To Cookbook Awards
The call for entries is underway for the 2010 IACP cookbook awards (omfg have you submitted yet?), and the field has changed just a little with the addition of three new categories. Recognizing the...
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Cookbook Review: The Blackberry Farm Cookbook by Sam Beall
Photographs: Eat Me Daily Farm-to-table is one of those irritating culinary trends that is hard to really stay irritated by. Fundamentally, it's just so darn right: we should be eating seasonally and...
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Weighty Issues: The Heaviest Cookbooks Out There
42.9 pounds of books. Photo: Paula Forbes We have been known, on occasion, to make fun of (and also defend) the thick, cloth bound, coffee table versions of cookbooks. Recently we've noticed that this...
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Cookbook Review: Thomas Keller's Ad Hoc at Home: Deliberately Eating Together
Photographs: Paula Forbes / Eat Me Daily Thomas Keller's cookbooks are not known for being accessible. Gorgeous, inspirational, even heavy — but accessible? Doable? Replicable? Not exactly. The French...
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The Best Cookbooks of 2009 Roundup Spectacular
2009 has really been the year of the home cook. While last year's crop of cookbooks was dominated by technical, aspirational, fantastical documents like Alinea, A Day at El Bulli, and Under Pressure,...
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The Best Cookbooks of the Decade [goodbye aughties]
While 2009 was full of spectacular cookbooks, the rest of the decade hasn't been too shabby either. With How to Cook Everything (published in 1998) and French Laundry (1999) completely changing the...
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Ad Hoc at Home Is Totally Sold Out Online
Photograph: Paula Forbes / Eat Me Daily A hearty Merry Christmas to the good folks at Artisan Books, whose holiday bestseller Ad Hoc at Home sold maybe a little too well: Amazon's out of stock on the...
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