The Art of Gay Cooking
Subtitle: A Culinary Memoir
By: Daniel Isengart ; foreword by Jeremiah Tower ; illustrations by Filip Noterdaeme
Contributors: Tower, Jeremiah, writer of foreword; Noterdaeme, Filip, 1965- illustrator
Publisher: Outpost19
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9781944853495
Subjects: Cooks; Cooking; Gay men; Biography; Caterers and catering
Description: "For Daniel Isengart, home cooking has always been an essential part of living a creative life. A cabaret performer and sought-after private chef in New York City, he knows how to deliver one delectable meal after another with the ease of a seasoned entertainer.The Art of Gay Cooking is a witty literary portrait that takes the reader from the author's grandmother's kitchen in southern Germany to his formative childhood years in Paris, from the attic apartment in Brooklyn Heights where he lives with his husband to his clients' posh homes in Manhattan and the Hamptons. Alternating intimate anecdotes and wry observations about the culinary world with over 250 easy-to-follow recipes, the book explores a rich, gay life devoted to beauty and art where the home kitchen always takes center stage. Jeremiah Tower, the eminent Godfather of modern American cooking, adds words of wisdom in his candid Foreword that describes how Isengart's inspired approach to cooking brought back memories of his own beginnings as the original chef of the legendary Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley. Cleverly composed as an homage to The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook, The Art of Gay Cooking adheres closely to Toklas's idiosyncratic style, mirroring specific passages and echoing her amusingly eccentric tone. A chapter devoted to recipes from friends presents a poignant contrast to the limelight on celebrity chefs and restaurant food, proving that, at least in Isengart's lively social circle of individualists, sophisticated yet unpretentious home-cooking is not a lost art"--Back cover.
Table of contents: title: The American way; title: Food in New York homes; title: Dishes for socialites; title: Music in the kitchen; title: Delicious cookie; title: Food to which planes and trains led us; title: Favorites; title: Food in Germany before I came to New York; title: Dishes from my childhood in France; title: Serving and being served in New York City; title: Food in the Hamptons during the summer; title: Recipes from friends; title: The produce on the island in Brittany; title: Recipe list.