For anyone who aspires to restaurant-chef-type food but not the long ingredient
lists and interminable cooking directions, here's the perfect book. Melissa
Clark retains the spark of genius in the chefs' original time-consuming recipes,
but pares them down (interrupts the chefs) to their most essential, simple
elements, allowing any cook to create four-star cuisine at home without a staff
of sous-chefs, an unlimited budget, and an entire weekend to fritter away.
"Chef, Interrupted" is like taking a cooking class from not one or two but more
than fifty world-renowned chefs across a broad spectrum of expertise, including
seafood with Eric Ripert and dessert with Claudia Fleming, American