What's Good? : A Memoir in Fourteen Ingredients.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoffman, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooks.

Food.

Restaurateurs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

What's Good?

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Abrams, Inc., 2021.

Summary:

What goes into the making of a chef, a restaurant, a dish? And if good ingredients make a difference on the plate, what makes them good in the first place? In his highly anticipated first book, influential chef Peter Hoffman offers thoughtful and delectable answers to these questions. "A locavore before the word existed" (New York Times), Hoffman tells the story of his upbringing, professional education, and evolution as a chef and restaurant owner through its components-everything from the importance of your relationship with your refrigerator repairman and an account of how a burger killed his restaurant, to his belief in peppers as a perfect food, one that is adaptable to a wide range of cultural tastes and geographic conditions and reminds us to be glad we are alive.Along with these personal stories from a life in restaurants, Hoffman braids in passionately curious explorations into the cultural, historical, and botanical backstories of the foods we eat. Beginning with a spring maple sap run and ending with the late-season, frost-defying vegetables, he follows the progress of the seasons and their reflections in his greenmarket favorites, moving ingredient to ingredient through the bounty of the natural world. Hoffman meets with farmers and vendors and unravels the magic of what we eat, deepening every cook's appreciation for what's on their kitchen counter. What's Good a layered, insightful, and utterly enjoyable meal.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Recipes

A Foreword

Prologue: On the Corner

Leeks and Potatoes

City Boy, Country Boy

Butter Unbound

Inspiration Please

Maple Syrup

My Spring Awakening

Green Food

Cook Here Now

Shrimp

Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda

Construction Is Cooking

Skate

Passover

Strawberries

Fireplace Cooking

Garlic

Calçots

Alternate Transport

Rosemary

Dinner Series

Pietro's Canestrinos di Great Jones Street

Finding Community

Take Back the Knife

Stone Fruit

The Iceman Cometh

The Hive

Grenada Peppers

One Step Forward, One Step Back

Apples and Pears

The Burger Killed My Restaurant

Kale and Radicchio

Tying the Roast

Exit Strategy

The Village Green

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781647000097

1647000092

OCLC:

1257666809