Full of ideas and inspiration
This is a great book that any cook will actually use. The recipes are organized as variations on a theme, inviting improvisation on the reader's part. If you cook, you'll love Simple to Spectacular: How to Take One Basic Recipe to Four Levels of Sophistication.
Really simple to spectacular?
I bought the book because it received high rating in the review. When I received the book today, I expected to see nice pictures to show the changes of a simple recipe then being presented in spectacular way. I am not sure whether the writer refers spectacular to some exotic, expensive or unusual ingredients or some cooking techniques in French terms. The recipes are pretty much grouped into each main ingredient and that ingredient is cooked in 4 different ways.
I am not a chef nor pro cook, only an enthusiastic home cook. Those are pretty much what I do at home. I use the same main ingredients and cook them in different ways on different days such as stir frying, roasting, grilling, with different seasonings or different filling ... Read More
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Buy Simple to Spectacular: How to Take One Basic Recipe to Four Levels of Sophistication. I try to cook at least one item a week out of it, and sometimes several. Tonight I had the basic roasted chicken and the mustard and shallot potatoes with a side of lemon-garlic satueed spinach.
The recipes are relatively easy, quick considering the end result,help sharpen your technical skills as well as build your creativity.
I would also recommend Michael Robert's Secret Ingredients. These two books will make people rave about your food.
Bon Appetit!
Simple to Spectacular
Great book
The recipe's are extremely well written for a cookbook and the technical abilities of the chef are well represented.
if you are looking for a picture book though this is not for you as there are none.
Simple to Spectacular: How to Take One Basic Recipe to Four Levels of Sophistication leaves it all to you to decide how it is presented.
Gourmet cuisine made simple!!!!
I loved Simple to Spectacular: How to Take One Basic Recipe to Four Levels of Sophistication, its "going from simple to sophisticated in one same recipe" format is amazing, really enabling you to practise with different levels of difficulty. It also gives room for improvisation and uses ingredients readily available in any supermarket. It is worth it alone just for Jean George's technique for cooking eggs, a total revelation!!! Don't miss it! The recipe on the cover is his most famous in his restaurant in New York. So if you don't have a trip planned soon, DO TRY IT AT HOME, it is amazingly simple and renders spectacular results. Your guests will be amazed. The only downside is, you will never want to eat eggs the old way again!!
