Family Table: Favorite Staff Meals from Our Restaurants to Your Home - Hardcover

Romano, Michael; Stabiner, Karen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0547615620 ISBN 13: 9780547615622

Publisher: Harvest, 2013

Synopsis

Some of the Best Food You’ll Never Eat in a Restaurant

Danny Meyer’s restaurants are among the most acclaimed and beloved in the nation: Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern, Maialino, Blue Smoke, The Modern, and more, winners of an unprecedented number of James Beard Awards for outstanding food and hospitality. Family Table takes you behind the scenes of these restaurants to share the food that the chefs make for one another before they cook for you.

Each day, before the lunch and dinner services, the staff sits down to a “family meal.” It is simple, often improvised, but special enough to please the chefs’ discerning palates. Now, for the first time, the restaurants’ culinary director, Michael Romano, coauthor of the award-winning Union Square Cafe Cookbook, collects and refines his favorite in-house dishes for the home cook, served alongside Karen Stabiner’s stories about the restaurants’ often-unsung heroes, and about how this imaginative array of dishes came to be. Their collaboration celebrates food, the family itself, and the restaurants’ rich backstage life.

Some of the recipes are global and regional specialties: Mama Romano’s Lasagna, Dominican Chicken, Thai Beef, Layered Huevos Rancheros, and Southern Cola-Braised Short Ribs. Many highlight fresh produce, like Michael Anthony’s Corn Soup, Barley & Spring Vegetables with Pesto, Grilled Halibut with Cherry Tomatoes, Sugar Snap Peas & Lemon, and Plum & Apricot Crisp with Almond Cream. There are homey dishes like Turkey & Vegetable Potpie with Biscuit Crust and Streusel-Swirl Coffee Cake, and inventive, contemporary takes, like Cornmeal-Crusted Fish Tacos with Black Bean & Peach Salsa and a delightfully tangy Buttermilk Panna Cotta with Rhubarb-Strawberry Compote. What all these recipes have in common is ease and perfection.

Family Table is an invitation from the restaurant family to you: Please join in.

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Featured Recipes from Family Table: Favorite Staff Meals from Our Restaurants to Your Home

Download the recipe for Chilled Carrot Soup with Frizzled Ginger Download the recipe for Jerk Shrimp Download the recipe for Buttermilk Panna Cotta with Rhubarb-Strawberry Compote

From the Back Cover:

“Danny Meyer, Michael Romano, and the kitchen team at Union Square Hospitality are redefining hospitality daily at their roster of superior restaurants. This behind-the-scenes look at Michael’s genius operation offers the dishes you’ll never experience on the restaurant floor. It’s the food the chefs cook for each other, which of course we all want to eat too!” —Mario Batali
"I always say to my team, ‘Cook the staff meal with the same care as if you were going to serve it to your mother.’  The stories and recipes in this book really encapsulate the passion that chefs should show while preparing their ‘family’s’ meals." —Daniel Bouludblurbs of 2 chefs Tk

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About this edition

• Publisher: Harvest
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0547615620
• ISBN 13: 9780547615622
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 336