The Zen of Cooking: Creative Cooking with and without Recipes - Softcover

Naimer, Lucille

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1585672890 ISBN 13: 9781585672899

Publisher: Overlook Books, 2002

Synopsis

Offering a fun-filled and inspirational new approach to cooking, this unusual cooking handbook encourages the exploration of self and the expression of creative impulses in dishes prepared without a recipe or in adapting a recipe to suit individual tastes and desires. Reprint.

About this title

About the Author:

Lucille Naimer is a jewelry designer and self-taught chef and a former sportswear and swimwear designer. This is her first book.

From Booklist:

Naimer's stated goal of teaching cooks to be less dependent on recipes gets a real workout here. She combines her own Zen philosophy with the creative impulses of a Wolfgang Puck to encourage her pupils to think for themselves and create dishes that go beyond slavish repetition of mere lists of commands and fixed inventories of ingredients. Sometimes, like in a stir-fry, this approach has a lot to recommend it. But when it comes to pastry and the like, precision is often the key to success. Naimer devotes the final chapter of her book to variations on lasagna, clearly a favorite food of hers, and one particularly adapted to inventive variations. For large cookery collections. Mark Knoblauch

About this edition

• Publisher: Overlook Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1585672890
• ISBN 13: 9781585672899
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224