Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook: Strategies, Recipes, and Techniques of Classic Bistro Cooking (Spiral Bound)

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Biographical Note: Anthony Bourdain, renowned chef, author, and raconteur, is best known for the New York Times bestselling memoirs Kitchen Confidential, Medium Raw, and A Cook's Tour; the collection The Nasty Bits; the novels Bone...

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Biographical Note:
Anthony Bourdain, renowned chef, author, and raconteur, is best known for the New York Times bestselling memoirs Kitchen Confidential, Medium Raw, and A Cook's Tour; the collection The Nasty Bits; the novels Bone in the Throat, The Bobby Gold Stories, and Gone Bamboo; the biography Typhoid Mary; and the cookbooks Appetites and Les Halles Cookbook. Bourdain was the host of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning docuseries Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown on CNN, and prior to that he hosted the Emmy Award-winning No Reservations and The Layover on the Travel Channel and The Taste on ABC. He passed away in 2018.

Marc Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Brief Description:
In this long-awaited cookbook, Anthony Bourdain reveals the hearty, delicious recipes of Les Halles, and the provocative tricks of the trade that have made him a celebrated name across the globe.

Review Quotes:

"Don't be misled by Anthony Bourdain's witty, irreverent style. His Les Halles Cookbook is solid, smart, and informative, and his recipes are bona fide bistro fare. From the onion soup to the veal kidney to the gratin dauphinois, this is the honest, unpretentious, comforting, and abundant food I loved as a youth in France and am always ready to enjoy with my family and friends. Anthony has given us an instant classic." --Jacques Pepin, author of The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen and Jacques Pepin's Complete Techniques

"Anyone serious about their cooking will want to own Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook. It has an enormous amount of vital information presented in Bourdain's pungent, abrasive, and memorable writing style. This is a cookbook you'll keep handy in the kitchen." -- Jim Harrison, author of The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand

"This is a great cookbook! Anthony Bourdain directs you brilliantly through delicious recipes, with explanations that are crystal clear." -- Eric Ripert, author of Le Bernardin Cookbook



Publisher Marketing:

20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

"It's like having the chef standing on the back of your clogs while you cook . . . This is evergreen." -Gabrielle Hamilton

Globally beloved chef Anthony Bourdain's bestselling classic-the hearty, delicious recipes and provocative tricks of the trade from his famed French brasserie where he made his name-with a new foreword from Gabrielle Hamilton.

Before stunning the world with his bestselling Kitchen Confidential, and hit TV shows Parts Unknown and No Reservations, Anthony Bourdain spent years serving some of the best French brasserie food in New York. With its no-nonsense, down-to-earth atmosphere, Les Halles matched Bourdain's style perfectly: a restaurant where you can dress down, talk loudly, drink a little too much wine, and have a good time with friends. Now, 20 years after its original publication, Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook remains an audacious classic, full of his signature humor and charm.

Bourdain teaches you everything you need to know to prepare classic French bistro fare. While you're being guided, in simple steps, through recipes like roasted veal short ribs and steak frites, escargots aux noix and foie gras au pruneaux, you'll feel like he's in the kitchen beside you-firing off a few insults when you've scorched the sauce, and then patting you on the back for finally getting the steak tartare right.

As practical as it is entertaining, Anthony Bourdain's handsomely repackaged Les Halles Cookbook and new foreword from Gabrielle Hamilton make for a can't-miss treat for cookbook lovers, aspiring chefs, and Bourdain fans everywhere.



Review Citations:

  • Publishers Weekly 09/13/2004 pg. 72 (EAN 9781582341804, Hardcover)
  • Library Journal 10/15/2004 pg. 82 (EAN 9781582341804, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:Bourdain, Anthony
Anthony Bourdain was the New York Times-bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential, Medium Raw, A Cook's Tour, Typhoid Mary and The Nasty Bits, the cookbooks Appetites and Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook, and the novels Bone in the Throat and Gone Bamboo. He also co-authored the graphic novel Get Jiro! with Joel Rose. His writing appeared in the New York Times and New Yorker. He was the host of the popular television shows No Reservations, Parts Unknown, A Cook's Tour and The Layover. Bourdain died in June 2018.

Author: Bourdain, Anthony
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Binding: Hardcover
Pub Date: October 19, 2004
BISAC: Cooking|Regional & Cultural|French|Cooking|Methods|Gourmet
ISBN: 9781582341804
ASIN: B0CBSYB6FNISBN
SKU: SP-9781582341804