Cooking with Les Dames Descoffier

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What if you could invite Alice Waters, M. F. K. Fisher, and Marcella Hazan into your kitchen as you make dinner? Imagine Julia Child looking over your shoulder as you prepare Julia's Lobster Newberg, or Gina Batali giving you her prized recipe for Batali Family Stuffed Artichokes? Les Dames d'Escoffier International (LDEI) is the premier association of female culinary professionals, started in 1973 in response to the all-male Les Amis d'Escoffier. In the organization's first national cookbook, the Dames share their most essential dishes--the ones they cook at home for family and friends. Here are such delights as Lidia Bastianich's hearth-warming Pork Rib Guazzetto, Susan Feniger's Roasted Black Cod with Horseradish Coulis and Farmers' Carrots, Anne Willan's elegant Twice-Baked Spinach Souffles, and Alice Medrich's Bittersweet Souffles with Nibby Cream. More than 125 recipes provide the range from appetizers to salads and soups, main courses (including vegetarian options) and sides to baking and desserts. Cooking with Les Dames d'Escoffier also offers up a wonderfully eclectic and informed array of foodie sidebars: the lowdown on screw-cap wines, how boxed phyllo dough can be a lifesaver, how to pair beverages and food, new ways to enjoy caviar, favorite kitchen tools, how to perfectly turn out a cake from its pan, and much more.

Marcella Rosene founded Seattle s premier take-out food shops, Pasta and Co. She lives in Seattle. Pat Mozersky founded the Ma Maison Cooking School. Tracey Maurer is a freelance food photographer. Both live in San Antonio."

"I was raised, formed, and shaped by the food of professional women chefs, from my mother and my aunts to the 'mothers of Lyon.' it is still the food closest to my heart and most satisfying to my soul. And the recipes from Les Dames d'Escoffier reveal th "These ladies know how to cook." --"Seattle Weekly", December 2008 "This august group's first full-fledged national effort at codifying some of its members' wisdom is long overdue."--"Wine News", December/January 2008-09 "{"Cooking with Les Dames d'Escofiier"} is a book for those who put their heart into each dish; for any cook who strives for something more than just a great meal."--"The Spokesman Review", December 2008 "Cookbooks compiled by organizations can be bland things, boiled down to an unappetizing gruel by members' disparate wants and needs. How gratifying, then, to thumb through "Cooking With Les Dames d'Escoffier" and discover recipe after mouthwatering recipe from this distinguished group of professional women."-"The Dallas Morning News", February 2009 "These ladies know how to cook." "Seattle Weekly," December 2008 "This august group's first full-fledged national effort at codifying some of its members' wisdom is long overdue." "Wine News," December/January 2008-09 "{"Cooking with Les Dames d'Escofiier"} is a book for those who put their heart into each dish; for any cook who strives for something more than just a great meal." "The Spokesman Review," December 2008