Kitchen Creativity: Unlocking Culinary Genius-with Wisdom, Inspiration, and Ideas from the World's Most Creative Chefs - Hardcover

Page, Karen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316267805 ISBN 13: 9780316267809

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, 2017

Synopsis

"An incredible reference for home cooks, young chefs, and seasoned pros alike. Kitchen Creativity should be in everyone's library." - Eric Ripert, chef and co-owner of Le Bernardin and New York Times bestselling author of 32 Yolks
Unlock your creative potential with the world's most imaginative chefs.
In this groundbreaking exploration of culinary genius, the authors of The Flavor Bible reveal the surprising strategies great chefs use to do what they do best. Beyond a cookbook, Kitchen Creativity is a paradigm-shifting guide to inventive cooking (without recipes!) that will inspire you to think, improvise, and cook like the world's best chefs.
Great cooking is as much about intuition and imagination as it is about flavor and technique. Kitchen Creativity distills brilliant insights into these creative processes from more than 100 top restaurant kitchens, including the Bazaar, Blue Hill,Daniel, Dirt Candy, Eleven Madison Park and the NoMad, Gramercy Tavern, the Inn at Little Washington, Le Bernardin, Oleana, Rustic Canyon, Saison, Single Thread, and Topolobampo.
Based on four years of extensive research and dozens of in-depth interviews, Kitchen Creativity illuminates the method (and occasional madness) of culinary invention. Part I reveals how to learn foundational skills, including how to appreciate, taste, and season classic dishes (Stage 1: Mastery), before reinventing the classics from a new perspective (Stage 2: Alchemy). Einstein's secret of genius-combinatory play-pushes chefs to develop unique creations and heighten their outer and inner senses (Stage 3: Creativity). Part II's A-to-Z entries are an invaluable culinary idea generator, with exercises to prompt new imaginings.
You'll also discover:

• experts' criteria for creating new dishes, desserts, and drinks;
• comprehensive seasonality charts to spark inspiration all year long;
• how to season food like a pro, and how to create complex yet balanced layers of flavor;
• the amazing true stories of historic dishes, like how desperate maitre d' "Nacho" Anaya invented nachos; and
• proven tips to jump-start your creative process.

The ultimate reference for culinary brainstorming, Kitchen Creativity will spur your creativity to new heights, both in the kitchen and beyond.

About this title

From the Author

"Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg have dedicated their storied careers as gastronomic scribes -- diligently researching and documenting the culture, history, science, and techniques of cooking.  Not surprisingly, each one of their acclaimed books has become a must-read for professional chefs and home cooks alike.  Their latest, KITCHEN CREATIVITY, proudly joins the family -- generously ladling practical advice towards acing the art of culinary innovation, imbuing the reader with newfound confidence, skill, and inspiration. No doubt it will become essential in my own collection!"
--Danny Meyer, CEO, Union Square Hospitality Group, and author of the New York Times bestseller Setting the Table

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"An incredible reference for home cooks, young chefs, and seasoned pros alike.  KITCHEN CREATIVITY should be in everyone's library."
--Eric Ripert, chef and co-owner of Le Bernardin in New York City

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"This splendid book is the perfect roadmap for a chef to attain culinary stardom."
--Jacques Pepin

Dear Readers,

It's here!  Today marks the publication of KITCHEN CREATIVITY: Unlocking Culinary Genius -- With Wisdom, Inspiration, and Ideas from the World's Most Creative Chefs (Little, Brown; Oct. 31, 2017).

This book is the "prequel" to THE FLAVOR BIBLE, one created with the intention of providing a brainstorming tool to anyone who cooks looking for idea-starters for their next culinary creation.

Imagine where you were when you first picked up a copy of our books CULINARY ARTISTRY (featured as one of the World's Best Cookbooks by Food & Wine) or BECOMING A CHEF (winner of the James Beard Book Award for Best Writing on Food), and the inspiration you felt to have a whole new world open up to you (as many readers told us they experienced).

Now, imagine having many of the world's most creative chefs come together in 2017 to provide you with so much of the information and inspiration you're seeking to fuel your creations in the kitchen today. 

That, dear friends, is KITCHEN CREATIVITY in a nutshell.

We're enormously grateful to the living legends and mega-creative chefs -- including Michael Anthony, Jose Andres, Dan Barber, Rick Bayless, Daniel Boulud, Amanda Cohen, Kyle Connaughton, Emily Luchetti, Patrick O'Connell, Eric Ripert, Marcus Samuelsson, Nancy Silverton, Joshua Skenes, Jacques Torres, and dozens of others -- who shared their time and talents with us to help KITCHEN CREATIVITY inspire the next generation of creative cooks.

And we're thrilled to share insights into the creativity of the kitchens at Alden & Harlow, Blue Hill, Coi, Crossroads, Eleven Madison Park and The Nomad, Grace, Le Bernardin, Manresa, The Point, The Restaurant at Meadowood and The Charter Oak, Rustic Canyon, Single Thread, Woodberry Kitchen, and many, many others.

We can't wait to taste what their insights inspire in you!

Delicious wishes,
Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg

About the Author

Kitchen Creativity's author Karen Page and photographer Andrew Dornenburg have been described as "perhaps the most influential and important of all food writers working today" (KLAV Radio), having created "many definitive guides" (Wall Street Journal) and "some of the most important books on cooking" (Good Food, KCRW/NPR), "making their mark with books that bring us inside the craft and life of America's chefs and their restaurants" (The Splendid Table, NPR).
Drawing on a shared passion for food, as well as previous careers as a creativity and strategy consultant to Fortune 500 companies (Page) and as a restaurant chef (Dornenburg), the duo's thought-provoking books are often fueled by creative pursuits outside the kitchen, from Harvard Business School's famed creativity course to a dance company's advisory board. Their books have been translated into multiple languages and received citations as sources of information and/or inspiration in numerous scholarly, fiction, nonfiction, and other creative works globally.
Former Washington Post wine columnists who have run six marathons between them, the married couple lives in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0316267805
• ISBN 13: 9780316267809
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 464