From beloved Chicago restaurateur Stephanie Izard, named one of “10 Breakthrough Rock Star Chefs of 2016” by Rolling Stone, comes a cookbook with flavor and fun at the forefront, with more than 100 recipes and 100 photographs.
Since becoming Top Chef’s first female winner, Stephanie Izard opened three restaurants in Chicago, traveled around China, and became an Iron Chef. And now she’s here to share her next adventure: a cookbook with recipes that hit all of the right salty, savory, tangy, and sweet notes. Her craveable, knockout food pairings–the ones her fans have been clamoring for–will surprise and delight any home cook: Banh Mi Burgers, Duck Breast with Brown Butter Kimichi, Roasted Shishito Peppers with Sesame Miso and Parmesan, and Sticky Sweet Potato Cake with Blueberry-Tomatillo Jam.
Wonderful, exciting cookbook from beloved Chef Izard: however, possibly not the cookbook for which home cooks were hoping I was so excited that Chef Izard was, apparently, giving us a cookbook with her own home-cooking recipes that I bought the book for full Kindle price on Day One! I so wanted to love this book. Alas, few of the recipes are accessible for the home cook.Although some of the recipes come from the author’s home cooking, most are presented or tweaked from her restaurants, and very few are simple or straightforward. They’re not something that I’d want to make for a weeknight dinner…