Craft of Cooking: Notes and Recipes from a Restaurant Kitchen

From Tom Colicchio, chef/co-owner of New York?s acclaimed Gramercy Tavern, comes a book that profiles the food and philosophy of Craft, his unique restaurant in the heart of New York?s Flatiron district, and winner of the 2002 James Beard Award for Best New Restaurant in America. From its food to its architecture and menu design, Craft has been celebrated for its courageous movement away from culinary theatrics and over-the-top presentations, back to the simple magic of great food. Realizing that his own culinary style had grown increasingly unembellished, and gambling that New York diners were experiencing that same kind of culinary fatigue (brought on by too much "fancy food"), Colicchio set out to prove that the finest food didn?t have to be the most complicated. From its opening in March 2001, Craft offered diners simple, soulful dishes centered around single ingredients that went on to shake up many people?s ideas of what "restaurant food" should be like. -- Craft of Cooking Craft of Cooking is destined to become a staple of home cooks everywhere?the one "restaurant cookbook" they can?t live without.