Just received my Alinea Mosaic access credentials today! Going to dig into to it and try and post some preliminary thoughts/reactions later on tonight.
Cooks’ Books and Blogs
Here’s the list of articles in which we discuss, reference, review, and sometimes recommend various blogs and books for cooks.
More on the upcoming Alinea cookbook from Ed Levine at Serious Eats. Interesting backgrounder on Grant Achatz’s concept for the book, the control he and his business partner garnered, and how is this is not just another cookbook.
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In the fashion of El Bulli, Grant Achatz and team have written a new cookbook revealing the techniques and ingredient combinations of four seasonal menus from Alinea. An pre-order of the book will set you back fifty dollars, but will also get you an autographed book and access to a special extended content website, Alinea [...]
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One of the best kitchen bookshelf resources you can own, while out-of-print, is fairly available on the secondary market. I don’t know how I became aware of it, but I am glad to have found it. The book is Cutting Up In The Kitchen by Merle Ellis. Originally published in 1975, this is one of [...]
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Wow. The last post drifted from the flatiron steak to a discussion of culinary plagiarism. So, the timing of this situation at Chez Pim is remarkably coincidental. If you don’t know Chez Pim, stop by and take a look at the coverage of meals at restaurants like El Bulli and WD-50. The pictures are really [...]
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In any field of endeavor, there are standard works that most serious devotees would be familiar with. For example, in computer science, most serious geeks have read Donald Knuth, or for the project management types, DeMarco and Lister. In advertising (at least in the past), it may have been David Ogilvy’s “Confessions of an Advertising [...]
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