The Summer Shack Cookbook: The Complete Guide to Shore Food - Softcover

White, Jasper

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393340147 ISBN 13: 9780393340143

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011

Synopsis

"Enables you to bring the style, fun, and flavors of summer to your table all year long."―Tom Colicchio, judge of Bravo’s Top Chef

In this collection of 200 easy-to-make dishes, Jasper White shows you how to make seafood classics like creamy Cape Cod clam chowder, Maine lobster rolls, and scallops wrapped in smoky bacon. Other shack favorites include fried chicken, sausage sandwiches, grilled skirt steak, and blueberry pie. A treasure trove of information, The Summer Shack Cookbook also advises on the proper way to shuck clams, pick apart a lobster, and scale a fish. This is the only cookbook you’ll need when it’s really too hot to cook or to fuss. 24 pages of four-color illustrations and 50 line drawings

About this title

About the Author

Jasper White is chef and partner of the Summer Shack restaurants. He is the author of The Summer Shack Cookbook, 50 Chowders, Lobster at Home, and Cooking from New England. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. White, a James Beard Award– winning Boston chef, went from owning a high-end restaurant to owning a casual seafood eatery (now there are three) called the Summer Shack. And in the vein of his homey cookbooks—One-Pot Meals; Lobster at Home—he presents this volume of summer recipes. The high quality of recipes and concern for ingredients are evident as ever, but it's the kind of food "you need to roll up your sleeves and get a little messy to truly appreciate and enjoy." White provides stellar versions of such seaside classics as Steamers Cooked in Beer, Creamy Cape Cod Clam Chowder, Fabulous Retro Shrimp Cocktail, and a Classic Maine Lobster Roll. There are also dishes with international accents—Steamed Black Sea Bass with Ginger and Scallions, Portuguese-Style Clam Stew—and old-school summer desserts like Strawberry Shortcake and Whoopie Pies, which White encourages readers to prepare in the morning "to take advantage of the clean work surfaces during the coolest part of the day." The book is filled with other helpful tips and insider chef tricks and techniques—so though it's simple and lighthearted, even hard-core cooks can learn something. (May)
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Edition details

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0393340147
• ISBN 13: 9780393340143
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 384
• Illustrator: Wood Ann