Long awaited by professional chefs, this groundbreaking guide to food presentation will also delight and inspire culinary students and sophisticated home cooks. Acclaimed food writer and culinary producer Christopher Styler describes seven distinctive plating styles, from Minimalist to Naturalist to Dramatic, with several striking examples of every genre. Each plating suggestion is accompanied by clear instructions along with color photos of step-by-step techniques and finished plates. Complete with essays on plating from ten leading chefs and recipes for the dishes featured, this book is a work of art in itself--a must for the kitchen shelf.
What Others Say
Not worth the money
For the cost of Working the Plate: The Art of Food Presentation I would go with anything else. The pictures are of nice quality...but they lack the angle or proper instruction to assemble the same plate.
Just Awful
The photography is horrible and the plating technique are not only dated, but little detail is given to re-creating them. A complete waste of money and time spent trying to glean something useful out of it.
If you are a novice and do not know any better you might pick up something useful, although if you are a professional Working the Plate: The Art of Food Presentation is not worth it.
not inspiring and not informative
Some nice pictures...many cookbooks have better. No discussion on style or technique and certainly no recipes worth buying the book for. Check it out at a bookstore or library before you purchase it...watching a food network show will give you more information on plating than Working the Plate: The Art of Food Presentation will in my opinion. There is also the fact Working the Plate: The Art of Food Presentation is TINY, not worth the money or a second look it is so lacking in information. So disappointing. I was at least expecting pictures of several presentations of different courses even if there was not a lot of explanation, a picture is truly worth a thousand words when developing this skill. Did I mention Working the Plate: The Art of Food Presentation is a big disappointment.
Nice for coffee table book
Nice presentation and much more appropriate for coffee table. Inspiring but definitely not a reference material.
Good first attempt at a subject
First of all, I am a professional chef. I enjoyed Working the Plate: The Art of Food Presentation, but I doubt Working the Plate: The Art of Food Presentation would have as much value for a home cook as it did for me.
The book is broken up into sections based on four "styles" of food presentation. Each style consists of a series of plates presented from actual chefs from their restaurant menus. Each "plate" comes with a large picture of the plate, a description of the dish's philosophy, and three smaller pictures, each with captions, highlighting one or two of the elements to plating that dish. Additionally, each chef is profiled sharing the reasons they believe in their particular plating style.
There is a section at the end of the book that gives the actual recipes for each of the plates ... Read More
