Kitchen Conversations: Robust Recipes and Flavor Secrets from One of America's Best Chefs
This cookbook goes well beyond being a remarkable collection of recipes for magnificent Mediterranean dishes. The reader also benefits from Joyce Goldstein's experience as a chef and world traveler and her passion for teaching. Her focus is on expanding your understanding of how the flavors and textures in a recipe work. She talks about this in both the descriptions before the dishes and in Kitchen Conversation--a detailed section accompanying every recipe that engages you in the how and why of what you are doing. If you are interested in wine, the detailed recommendations by Goldstein's son, Evan, are as valuable as the recipes in this unique book.