White House Chef: Eleven Years, Two Presidents, One Kitchen

White House Chef: Eleven Years, Two Presidents, One Kitchen by Andrew Friedman and Walter Scheib
English | 2007 | ISBN: 0471798428 | 336 pages | EPUB | 12,5 MB

“An engaging book about life at the Executive Mansion. . . . Hillary Clinton had charged this fiercely competitive, meticulously organized chef with bringing ‘what’s best about American food, wine, and entertaining to the White House.’ His sophisticated contemporary food was generally considered some of the best ever served there.”

–Marian Burros, New York Times

White House Chef

Join Walter Scheib as he serves up a taste–in stories and recipes–of his eleven years as White House chef under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

Scheib takes readers along on his whirlwind adventure, from his challenging audition process right up until his controversial departure. He describes his approach to meals ranging from the intimate (rooftop parties and surprise birthday celebrations for the Clintons; Tex-Mex brunches for the Bushes) to his creative approach to bringing contemporary American cuisine to the “people’s house” (including innovative ways to serve state dinners for up to seven hundred people and picnics and holiday menus for several thousand guests).

Scheib goes beyond the kitchen and his job as chef. He shares what it is like to be part of President Clinton’s motorcade (the “security bubble”) and inside the White House during 9/11, revealing how he first evacuates his staff and then comes back to fix meals for hundreds of hungry security and rescue personnel. Staying cool under pressure also helps Scheib in other aspects of his job, such as withstanding the often-changing “temperature” of the White House and satisfying the culinary sensibilities of two very different first families.

Kitchen & Bath Design News - June 2016

Kitchen & Bath Design News – June 2016
English | True PDF | 104 pages | 96 MB

The only monthly publication serving the kitchen and bath industry, Kitchen & Bath Design News continues to reinforce its longstanding status as the leading magazine in the trade. It continues to target the industry’s most influential product decision-makers – and serve their informational needs with a content-rich, graphically impactful editorial product that delivers timely, comprehensive coverage of the critical issues readers face.

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Kitchen Simple: Essential Recipes for Everyday Cooking (Repost)

James Peterson, “Kitchen Simple: Essential Recipes for Everyday Cooking”
English | 2011 | ISBN: 1580083188 | EPUB | pages: 389 | 39,5 mb

Hundreds of recipes designed to get exceptional meals on the table in under an hour

With Kitchen Simple, James Peterson, one of America’s most celebrated cookbook authors and renowned cooking instructors, delivers a definitive resource for the busy home cook. Elevating routine, weekday fare into exciting culinary creations, Peterson proves unequivocally that great food need not be complicated or time-consuming to prepare.

More than 200 recipes, such as Summer Steak Salad, Mexican-Style Gazpacho, White Bean Bruschetta, Red Cabbage with Bacon and Apples, and Ricotta Ravioli, are thoughtfully streamlined to require no more than thirty minutes of active prep time with delivery to the table in under an hour. For leisurely meals and celebratory occasions, there are also dozens of luxe dishes, like Red Wine Pot Roast, Eggplant Parmigiano, Duck Confit, and Profiteroles with Chocolate Sauce. And, from the master of sauces, comes a paired-down primer on making foolproof Mayonnaise, Caper and Herb Sauce for vegetables and chicken, and an easy Béarnaise to dress up grilled fish.

Kitchen Simple presents creative possibilities for weeknight meals, quick-and-easy breakfasts, impromptu dinner parties, and inspired last-minute desserts. And with Peterson’s invaluable variations, cooks can confidently substitute harder-to-find ingredients with items already at hand. Additional advice on how to stock a pantry with staples to make everyday cooking even easier, plus an inventory of truly indispensable kitchen tools make Kitchen Simple a go-to source of inspiration for cooks of all persuasions: novice or experienced, time-pressed or laid-back, casual or serious.

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Best Vegetarian and Vegan Asian Recipes from Mama Li"s Kitchen

Best Vegetarian and Vegan Asian Recipes from Mama Li’s Kitchen by Sarah Spencer and Marjorie Kramer
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1517733944 | 120 pages | EPUB | 1,8 MB

Prepare delicious vegetarian and vegan meals inspired from Mama Li’s best recipes! From Mama Li’s Kitchen to yours. The beauty of Chinese cuisine lies in its simplicity. With a few ingredients rightfully chosen and flavorful spices, you can create the most amazing fresh meals in no time. You don’t need to be an exceptional cook or have an immense pantry to enjoy your favorite vegetarian or vegan Asian dishes fresh from your own kitchen. It has become a tradition in our family to cook like Mama Li. In this book, you will find a collection of her best Asian vegetarian recipes from her restaurant. Mama Li showed me everything I know about cooking Asian foods. One of the warmest memories I have from Mama Li was the patience she showed toward me when she hired me to assist in her restaurant’s kitchen. She would carefully explain and show me how to choose the right ingredients at the market, handle the knife and chop quickly the fresh produces, prepare the secret sauce with just the right amount of spices and ingredients, stir-fry with the most amazing pan in my kitchen, the wok, how to use a bamboo steamer and so much more. I learned so much for those two wonderful years working for Mama Li. Since, then I have continued cooking like Mama Li showed me while adapting the recipes to my own family’s preferences.

In this book, you will find everything you need to know about making at home delicious Asian vegetarian and vegan dishes including:

• Appetizing soups like the Sesame Bamboo Soup. • Mouth-watering appetizers like the Spring Onion Pancakes or the Crispy Skin Tofu. • Divine Entrees such as the Five Spice Tofu and Eggplant, the Ginger Lo Mein or the Emperor Vegetables with Rice. • Memorable rice and noodle dishes like the Yang Chow Fried Rice or Chicken Lo Mein. • Sweet desserts like the Sweet Bun with Red Bean Paste. So let’s get cooking! Scroll back up and order your copy today!

The Kitchen Ecosystem: Integrating Recipes to Create Delicious Meals

Eugenia Bone, “The Kitchen Ecosystem: Integrating Recipes to Create Delicious Meals”

ISBN: 0385345127 | 2014 | EPUB | 416 pages | 42 MB

Paradigm-shifting, The Kitchen Ecosystem will change how we think about food and cooking. Designed to to create and use ingredients that maximize flavor, these 400 recipes are derived from 40 common ingredients–from asparagus to fish to zucchini–used at each stage of its “life cycle”: fresh, preserved, and in a main dish.

Seasoned cooks know that the secret to great meals is this: the more you cook, the less you actually have to do to produce a delicious meal. The trick is to approach cooking as a continuum, where each meal draws on elements from a previous one and provides the building blocks for another. That synchronicity is a kitchen ecosystem.

For the farmers market regular as well as a bulk shopper, for everyday home cooks and aspirational ones, a kitchen ecosystem starts with cooking the freshest in-season ingredients available, preserving some to use in future recipes, and harnessing leftover components for other dishes. In The Kitchen Ecosystem, Eugenia Bone spins multiple dishes from single ingredients: homemade ricotta stars in a pasta dish while the leftover whey is used to braise pork loin; marinated peppers are tossed with shrimp one night and another evening chicken thighs and breast simmer in that leftover marinade. The bones left from a roast chicken bear just enough stock to make stracciatella for two. The small steps in creating “supporting ingredients” actually saves time when it comes to putting together dinner.

Delicious food is not only a matter exceptional recipes—although there are an abundance

of those here. Rather, it is a matter of approaching the kitchen as a system of connected foods. The Kitchen Ecosystem changes the paradigm of how we cook, and in doing so, it may change everything about the way we eat today.

Chicken and Rice: Fresh and Easy Southeast Asian Recipes from a London Kitchen

Shu Han Lee, “Chicken and Rice: Fresh and Easy Southeast Asian Recipes from a London Kitchen”
English | ISBN: 0241199077 | 2016 | EPUB | 288 pages | 100 MB

Southeast Asian food is fresh, easy and full of unforgettable flavours: Chicken and Rice will show you just how simple it is to make at home. Shu Han Lee moved to London from Singapore as a student. Homesick and hungry, she started teaching herself to cook the food she’d grown up with – Singaporean and Malaysian dishes, with a strong Chinese influence from her Hokkien Chinese mother. These recipes, from her mother’s sesame oil chicken to ox cheek and venison rendang, are ones you will want to make time and time again. There are perfect midweek suppers rustled up in less time than it takes to order a takeaway, and healthier and better tasting at that: fennel and minced pork stir fry, fried hor fun noodles with kale and beansprouts or tom yum soup with mussels. For weekends, there are more adventurous projects: learn how to make your own steamed buns, egg noodles, or BBQ sambal lemon sole – a whole fish barbequed on banana leaves. Although these are Southeast Asian recipes, Shu’s seasonal approach to the very best of UK produce is reflected throughout this book: from Brussels sprouts with smashed garlic and oyster sauce to no-churn rhubarb and condensed milk ice cream. There are also recipes that Shu has picked up on her travels throughout Southeast Asia, such as Vietnamese caramel pork ribs, Thai baked glass noodles with prawns and black pepperand Burmese chickpea tofu with fish sauce, lime and honey dressing.