Posts Tagged ‘Top Chef’
Sunday, May 22 – 6:00pm
For our next adventure we decided on Tom Colicchio’s Think Like a Chef. You might know Colicchio as the head judge on TV show Top Chef. It turns out, this is one of Sheana’s favorite cookbooks. “It’s basically the cookbook that turned me on to cooking. It taught me how to braise, roast, emulsify and more.” It reads a bit more like a story than just a collection of recipes. Colicchio imparts how chefs think about seasonality of ingredients and flavor combinations. One of the unique things about his cookbook is the section called Trilogies, where he chooses 3 ingredients and then includes recipes for several different dishes that can be made with those same 3 ingredients. (more…)