Cooking with Les Dames d'Escoffier: At Home with the Women Who Shape the Way We Eat and Drink
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...
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Les Dames d’Escoffier International is the premier association of women culinary professionals, started in 1973 in response to the all-male Les Amis d'Escoffier. In its 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 Soufflé; and Alice Medrich’s Bittersweet Soufflé with Nibby Cream. More than 130 recipes range from appetizers to salads and soups, main courses (including vegetarian), sides, baking and desserts. Cooking with Les Dames d’Escoffier offers up a wonderfully eclectic and informed array of foodie sidebars: the lowdown on screwcaps on wine; how boxed phyllo dough can be a lifesaver; how to pair beer and food; new ways to enjoy caviar; favorite kitchen tools; how to tread a cake pan so the cake always comes out; and more. Library Journal Les Dames d'Escoffier is a professional organization of women chefs, food writers, caterers, purveyors, and others that was established in 1973 and today has more than 1300 members, many of them culinary stars. Their first cookbook includes dozens of recipes ranging from Grilled Gazpacho Salad with Shrimp to Black Cod with Horseradish Coulis. Despite its rather pretentious subtitle and references to each contributor as a "Dame"-as in "New York City Dame Lidia Bastianich"-the book has the feel of an upscale community cookbook, though the recipes, of course, are generally more sophisticated. With helpful tips, beverage suggestions, and make-ahead notes; for larger collections.
\ Library JournalLes Dames d'Escoffier is a professional organization of women chefs, food writers, caterers, purveyors, and others that was established in 1973 and today has more than 1300 members, many of them culinary stars. Their first cookbook includes dozens of recipes ranging from Grilled Gazpacho Salad with Shrimp to Black Cod with Horseradish Coulis. Despite its rather pretentious subtitle and references to each contributor as a "Dame"-as in "New York City Dame Lidia Bastianich"-the book has the feel of an upscale community cookbook, though the recipes, of course, are generally more sophisticated. With helpful tips, beverage suggestions, and make-ahead notes; for larger collections.\ \ \
