| | |  | Cook's Tools > | Home » » Coco: 10 World-Leading Masters Choose 100 Contemporary Chefs | | | | | | | Description: | | Coco is an exciting, unprecedented guide to the most exceptional talent in the international restaurant world. Coco presents 100 of the best emerging contemporary chefs from all corners of the globe as selected by 10 culinary icons: Ferran Adrià , Mario Batali, Shannon Bennett, Alain Ducasse, Fergus Henderson, Yoshihiro Murata, Gordon Ramsay, René Redzepi, Alice Waters and Jacky Yu.
From Singapore to New York, Stockholm to Seattle, Hong Kong to Paris, these chefs are pushing their craft to new heights and have just begun to receive attention for their cooking. Arranged alphabetically, the book presents each chosen chef with an insightful essay from the "chef-curator" explaining their pick, a bio, sample menu, and gorgeous full-color images of the restaurant, the kitchen, the chef at work, as well as accompanying recipes such as David Chang's (Momofuku, New York), Mackerel with Kimchi Puree, Oyster and Radish, Allison Vines-Rushing's (MiLa, New Orleans) Sweet Potato Pappardelle with Roasted Shitake Mushrooms and Shaved Sheep Cheese and Amaryll Schwertner's (Boulette's Larder, San Francisco) Hungarian Cabbage Leaves Stuffed with Kurobuta Pork Shoulder, Sauerkraut with Quince, and Smoky Pork Belly. Part cookbook, part guide to the world's best new restaurants, and part who's who of the international food scene, Coco is an invaluable and timely culinary sourcebook for chefs and food enthusiasts alike. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
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| 448 pages | | Publisher:
| Phaidon Press | | Publication Date:
| November 16, 2009 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0714849545 | | Package Length:
| 11.65 inches | | Package Width:
| 8.74 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.81 inches | | Package Weight:
| 5.51 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
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A pick especially recommended for culinary collectionsFeb 20, 2010 COCO: 10 WORLD-LEADING MASTERS CHOOSE 100 CONTEMPORARY CHEFS examines modern culinary movers and shakers from all corners of the globe, from a cafe in Taipei and a sandwich shop in Portland Oregon to a mobile ice cream van in London. The 100 chefs chosen for this book have created inventive cuisines with new techniques as well as creating traditional dishes with fresh, local produce, and packs in recipes, menus, and chef reflections in a pick especially recommended for culinary collections.
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Actually quite interestingNov 07, 2009 One hundred star chefs provide recipes spread over a couple of pages each. This sounds like an awful idea; especially coupled with the binding and layout that tries to be exclusive, but feels a bit cheap. Howver, the book is actually quite interesting. The chefs are picked by superstar chefs so they are mostly up-and-coming people. When you start looking at the actual dishes presented, they look fresh and really cutting edge. I've had a few of these dishes in other restaurants so this is live diffusion of ideas!
Who should buy this book? Maybe other chefs, who want to copy of get inspiration. Maybe the travelling gourmet who want to know more about rising star chefs and where to eat. I give the book four stars only because a book like this isn't really essential to own and in a couple of years it will be dated. I guess it will serve very well as a time capsule of what was trendy in 2008.
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