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When the green-glass Lever House building opened in 1952, it was called "the eighth wonder of the world." Nowadays the wonder is the building's eponymous restaurant, where chef Dan Silverman serves his imaginative seasonal menus. This cookbook allows the home cook to confidently re-create dishes like buttery cod with black-olive-and-onion confit or sorrel soup with smoked trout...
ITALIAN TWO EASY ROSE GRAY AND RUTH ROGERS This is the sixth cookbook from the chef-owners of London's beloved River Café. The book begins with a dozen easy ways to serve first-course mozzarella cheese, and the recipes that follow, all simple and streamlined, celebrate seasonal foods. It will seem like a snap to create meals like fried eggplant with basil and tomato, left, or rich roast duck simmered in Valpolicella wine...
...Star chef José Andrés and Embutidos Fermin celebrated the arrival of prized jamón ibérico products to the U.S. for the first time. The plum-colored ham, considered by some to be the finest in the world, wasn't the only cured meat taking center stage at the show, though. La Quercia Rossa Heirloom Breed Culaccia dry-cured ham was both salty and sweet, Principe's truffled ham was luxurious, and S. Wallace Edwards offered American- style serrano with paper-thin slices of its WigWam...
...foodie," says executive producer Arthur Smith. "It's like a live sporting event. It's hot, there's time pressure, there's someone yelling at you, and there are sharp things. There's danger." Still, hundreds of food professionals applied for the chance to become chef at a new restaurant--though they'll probably be glad to escape without a cleaver in the back...
...course, TLC did not invent the idea of inspiration as a performance, any more than Runway, Top Chef et al. transformed design, cooking and so on into entertainment. Isaac Mizrahi, Emeril Lagasse and Martha Stewart turned their fields into reality TV long before reality TV did, making their personae inseparable from their work. Says Kara Janx, who finished fourth on last season's Runway: Celebrity "is part and parcel of being a designer today. When people know the person behind the brand, they become invested in it." That said, she adds, "I want to die as a good designer...