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Bloomsbury
May 2012
On Sale: May 8, 2012
224 pages
ISBN: 1608191028
EAN: 9781608191024
Kindle: B007DD9DGE
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Non-Fiction Cooking / Food
When Daniel Duane became a father, this San Francisco surfer
and climber found himself trapped at home with no clue how
to contribute. Inept at so many domestic tasks, and less
than eager to change diapers, he took on dinner duty. Duane
had a few tricks: pasta, stir-fry ... well, actually, those
were his only two tricks. But he had a biographical anomaly:
Chef Alice Waters had been his preschool teacher. So he
cracked one of her Chez Panisse cookbooks and cooked his way
through it. And so it went with all seven of her other
cookbooks, then on to those of other famous chefs-thousands
of recipes in all, amounting to an epic eight-year cooking
journey. Butchering whole lambs at home, teaching himself to make
classic veal stock, even hunting pigs in Maui and fishing
for salmon in Alaska, Duane so thoroughly immersed himself
in the modern food world that he met and cooked with a
striking number of his heroes: writing a book with Alice
Waters; learning offal cookery hands-on from the great
Fergus Henderson; even finagling seven straight hours of
one-on-one private lessons from the chef he admires above
all others, Thomas Keller. Duane's inimitable voice carries us through, with humor and
panache, even through a pair of personal tragedies. Here is
a writer who can make chopping an onion sound fun and
fascinating. But there is more at stake in his wonderful
memoir: In the end, Duane learns not just how to cook like a
man, but how to be one.
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