Product DescriptionCooking secrets and techniques that help make celebrity chefs famous from experienced off-camera chefs from the Food Network Kitchens.
Quotes and stories throughout, offering consumers a fascinating look inside the Food Network.
Exquisite photography and Food Network recipes providing inspiration and confidence that every dish will be a success.
What Others Say
I liked this book very much.
I made the chimchuri sauce...delicious. I also made the short ribs...soooo good. I don't have the book in front of me so I can't tell you the exact names of the recipes...but I will tell you, this is a good book and much better than the celebrity compilation called "Favorites". They called it "Favorites" because it's chocked full of recipes found in other cookbooks that most of you FN fans already own!!!!
The chefs in this cookbook are behind the scenes chefs that make Emeril (think Santos) and company look good. They test the recipes for tv...they know a good recipe when they see one. Food Network Kitchens Cookbook is worth the money!
What a disappointment
I thought this was a collaboration of all the chefs on the
food channel. Food Network Kitchens Cookbook is written by the staff of the food channel kitches, not ie, Rachel Ray, Naked chef, etc.
I was disappointed, the receipes were just so-so.
Amazing
I love to cook, and have at least 20 cookbooks. This one is by far the best I have. Every recipe I have made from the cookbook is amazing. The recipes are very imaginative, but also very easy to make. It's a great cookbook.
Maybe a little better than all that
I would have to agree with the previous reviewer that this cookbook tries almost too hard to fit too much in a small space, and that the photos are often useless, including a number of captionless shots of Food Network chefs cooking or chatting. These pictures look like something from a bank brochure, in my opinion.
But I also think that saying this is a "celebrity chef" cookbook is entirely wrong, and that the whole point of the book is to showcase tried-and-true favorite recipes of the NON-celebrity chefs behind the scenes, who make all the glossy TV shows possible. It isn't like Emeril and Sara are in the trenches preparing for today's episode, trying to decide if the cheesecake needs another half-cup of sugar. That's why they're ... Read More
These are Quality Recipes for Good Cooks
This `food network kitchens cookbook' is a type of celebrity chef cookbook, similar to those by Sara Moulton and Tyler Florence, which are by well known culinary personalities not associated with a particular restaurant or cuisine like Mario Batali (Italian) or Ming Tsai (Chinese). Books in this class are most useful to people who are already reasonably good cooks and use such books as a resource to broaden their range without having to buy a large number of cookbooks. The `celebrity chef' source for these books should be a reasonable assurance that the book's recipes will be well crafted. In satisfying this objective, this volume succeeds very well. First, the book contains recipes from a wide range of cuisines with a totally predictable ... Read More
