num_pages: 304
description: How does one become an Iron Chef and a Chopped judge on Food Networkand what does she really cook at home?Alex Guarnaschelli grew up in a home suffused with a love of cooking where souffls and cheeseburgers were equally revered. The daughter of a respected cookbook editor and a Chinese cooking enthusiast Alex developed a passion for food at a young age sealing her professional fate. Old-School Comfort Food shares her journey from waist-high taste-tester to trained chef who now adores spending time in the kitchen with her daughter along with the 100 recipes for how she learned to cookand the way she still loves to eat.Here are Alexs secrets to great home cooking where humble ingredients and familiar preparations combine with excellent technique and care to create memorable meals. Alex brings her recipes to life with reminiscences of everything from stealing tomatoes from her aunts garden and her first bite of her mothers pt to being one of the few women in the kitchen of a renowned Parisian restaurant and serving celebrity clientele in her own successful New York City establishments. With 75 color photographs and ephemera Old-School Comfort Food is Alexs love letter to deliciousness.
language: English
title: Old-School Comfort Food: The Way I Learned to Cook: A Cookbook
publisher: Clarkson Potter