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La Comida De La Familia (2011)

by Ferran Adrià(Favorite Author)

4.12 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

8492981822 (ISBN13: 9788492981823)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Rba Practica

review 1: I try not to buy too many cookbooks because I rarely follow recipes, but I was immediately drawn to this one. I am more likely to cook something out of The Family Meal than something out of the El Bulli cookbooks, that's for sure. The Family Meal's conceit is that all the recipes are grouped into different meals, so you have one meal of an appetizer, a main, and a dessert. And the ingredients are usually easy to find, affordable, or pantry items. There are parts of the book where it diverges from this and some specialized equipment (blowtorch?? foamer??) is recommended, but overall, the book sticks to its goal.The main thing that drew me to this book were all the pictures. Instead of a list of ingredients and steps, each step had an accompanying picture. It's almost li... moreke watching a video of someone cooking. I thought that was a great way of laying out the steps.
review 2: Adria proposes 31 meals consisting of a 1st course, 2nd course dish and an dessert.The dishes seem to be thought out for the average everyday cook, no difficult methods, not too many exotic ingredients. The layout is very user friendly, a setup page shows and lists ingredients needed for the 3 dishes followed by a page showing how to organize cooking the 3 dishes proposed in order to save time (ex. while chicken is in the oven cut and marinate watermelon...). The following 3 pages are step by step explanations on how to make each dish with pictures at each stepSome of the dishes are old hat for Spainards. Practically everyone knows how to make "Escalibada" (Roasted-Marinated peppers), or Serrano Ham wigh Melon or Lentils, but he does propose interesting twists on old recipies like Tortilla Espanola Chips.I am impressed with the book and feel confident that I can really make many of the meals suggested.I'll let you know once I've actually tried my hand at them! less

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