Williams-Sonoma Food Made Fast: Small Plates (Food Made Fast) - Hardcover

Brigit Binns

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0848731859 ISBN 13: 9780848731854

Publisher: Oxmoor House, 2007

Synopsis

A collection of illustrated cookbooks for the busy home cook utilizes a straightforward approach to preparing tasty, healthful, and time-saving dishes for every night of the week, with easy-to-follow recipes and tips on keeping a well-stocked pantry, planning ahead, and using fresh ingredients.

About this title

About the Author:

Brigit Binns is the author or co-author of twenty-one cookbooks and editor of many others. She has collaborated on books with some of the country’s most respected chefs, including New York’s Michael Psilakis and Los Angeles’ Joachim Splichal. Brigit has not only written over two thousand recipes, she has translated countless complex restaurant recipes into home cook-friendly food.

2008 saw the publication of three solo cookbooks and one co-authored book. Williams-Sonoma Pizza, Williams-S Small Plates, and the weighty tome Bride & Groom Entertaining. She was hired to create 150 original recipes for the Tavern on the Green Cookbook (Artisan 1.09), based on the continental-American food served at this New York institution over the last thirty years. The party-friendly recipes deserve to be revisited again and again, even if the restaurant will soon be shuttered.

Television:

In addition to three appearances on the Today Show and various visits to regional television news programs, she developed the concepts and wrote 90 shows for the second season of Food Network’s series Too Hot Tamales. At the time, the two hosts felt they had exhausted the Mexican repertoire and wanted to feature other Latin cuisines. Brigit brought Brazil, Cuba, Peru, Spain, and Portugal into their kitchen, thus helping to launch their pan-global explorations.

Teaching, Training, Travel:

Brigit has taught cooking classes for adults all over the country.

She received a B.A. in Chinese Studies from Lewis & Clark College (additional coursework at Georgetown University, Soochow University, Taipei, and Monterey Institute of International Studies). She lived in Europe for ten years, where she graduated from England’s Tante Marie cooking school, owned her own catering business, and edited the English-language magazine of Spain’s Mediterranean coast.

She has traveled extensively in Italy, France, Spain, Britain, and the interior of the U.S.A. Her irreverent driving-and-eating blog, Roadfoodie averages 5000 page views a month..

In late ‘07, St Martin’s Press released her memoir/cookbook The Relaxed Kitchen: How to Entertain with Casual Elegance and Never Lose Your Mind, Incinerate the Souffle, or Murder the Guests. She appeared on the Today Show for the third time on October 17, 2007. In October ‘06 she appeared on local morning television and countless radio shows across the country in connection with her job as spokesperson for Williams-Sonoma.

In fall of ‘04 Ten Speed Press published The Low-Carb Gourmet, a full color, photo-filled book that established Brigit’s brand as an expert in the timely and then-unexplored subject of combining low-carb dining--and the resulting weight-loss--with living well. After her appearance on the Today Show in late February, the book shot into the top 100 on Amazon.

In 2003, she authored the Palm Restaurant Cookbook (Running Press). Brigit garnered critical acclaim for her ability to evoke the warm Italian-American family atmosphere and humor that pervades this legendary, multi-million-dollar celebrity hangout. The book ranked in the top 5,000 on Amazon for six months after its release, and the publishers scheduled a second printing after only three months.

Other cookbooks include Cuisine Naturelle: Modern French Classics (co-author), Williams-Sonoma: Salads, W-S: Sauce, W-S: Breakfast, and W-S: Hors d’Oeuvres. Two Christmas’ ago, the beautiful Williams-Sonoma’s American Christmas was released; she contributed the “New Year’s Eve in the City” menu.

Her regular column, The Raw and the Cooked, appears in the magazine InsideOut Hudson Valley; she has been published in Saveur, Food & Wine, and Variety, among others.

Brigit also has extensive behind-the-scenes restaurant experience. She consulted on a re-working of the menu at Beverly Hills’ famous

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxmoor House
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0848731859
• ISBN 13: 9780848731854
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112