You have seen the Chef's Table episode. The dropped lemon tart, the five ages of parmigiano. What the episode does not show is how those plates came to exist, and that is the part that helps you cook. This book walks through 25 years of Osteria Francescana in four chapters, dish by dish, with the thinking laid out next to the recipe.
The LADJA team uses it for:
- The four chapters, read in order, to follow how one kitchen changed over 25 years
- The texts next to each of the 50 recipes: inspiration, ingredients, technique
- Stealing an idea, not a recipe, and taking it somewhere else
From the publisher:
Never Trust a Skinny Italian Chef is a tribute to three-michelin star restaurant, Osteria Francescana and the twenty-five year career of its chef, Massimo Bottura, 'the Jimi Hendrix of Italian chefs'. Voted #1 in the S. Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurants Awards 2016.
Osteria Francescana is Italy's most celebrated restaurant. At Osteria Francescana, chef Massimo Bottura (as featured on Netflix's Chef's Table) takes inspiration from contemporary art to create highly innovative dishes that play with Italian culinary traditions.
Never Trust a Skinny Italian Chef is a tribute to Bottura's twenty-five year career and the evolution of Osteria Francescana. Divided into four chapters, each one dealing with a different period, the book features 50 recipes and accompanying texts explaining Bottura's inspiration, ingredients and techniques. Illustrated with photography by Stefano Graziani and Carlo Benvenuto, Never Trust a Skinny Italian Chef is the first book from Bottura - the leading figure in modern Italian gastronomy.
Details:
- Author: Massimo Bottura
- 50 recipes in four chapters
- Photography: Stefano Graziani and Carlo Benvenuto
- Weight: 1.83 kg
- Dimensions: 30 x 22 x 4 cm
