The Good Enough to Eat Breakfast Cookbook - Hardcover

Levin, Carrie; Perley, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0446528269 ISBN 13: 9780446528269

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing, 2001

Synopsis

In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the renowned Manhattan restaurant Good Enough to Eat, Carrie Levin presents this original cookbook full of recipes for the most important meal of the day.

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Review

Manhattan's tiny Good Enough to Eat restaurant is a local treasure. Featuring delicious breakfast fare, it's become the better-come-early stop of choice for fabulous omelets, pancakes, blintzes, waffles, and more. The Good Enough to Eat Breakfast Book, by the restaurant's chef-owner, Carrie Levin, offers over 150 of the spot's best recipes for its famed American dishes. Those of us who wish we could eat breakfast three times a day, as well as anyone hankering for the likes of a Vermont Cheddar-Apple Omelet, Sour Cream Coffee Cake with Crumb Topping, and Lemon Poppy Seed Waffles, will be delighted.

In chapters that cover the full range of breakfast specialties--from eggs (Levin supplies 20 recipes for these alone) to waffles, French toast, quick and yeast breads, doughnuts, and more--Levin presents easy, approachable formulas. Also included are tips and techniques (her beating method ensures creamy, golden scrambled eggs), serving ideas, and recipes for condiments like the house's beloved strawberry butter. Included also are chapters on salads and sides like hashed brown potatoes, spoonbread, and broccoli slaw, as well as brunch menus and beverage recipes like those for Pink Cherry Lemonade and Coconut Grapefruit Smoothie. It's hard to imagine a better compilation of start-the-day recipes, or one that's easier to put to use. --Arthur Boehm

About the Author

Carrie Levin, the chef/owner of Good Enough to Eat, was born in New York but grew up in Brussels, where her parents owned two small restaurants. After attending Pru Leith's School of Food and Wine in London, England, she moved to New York City and worked for Faith Stuart Gordon at the Russian Tea Room. She went on to apprenticeships under Seppi Renngli, then head chef at the Four Seasons, and with master baker Alain Braux at Delices de la Côte Basque.

About Good Enough to Eat(r) Restaurant Described by Zagat's as "more than good enough...[a] slice of Vermont on the Upper West Side," Good Enough to Eat opened its doors on August 13, 1981, as a small restaurant and bakery on Manhattan's Amsterdam Avenue. Born in New York City but raised in Europe, chef/owner Carrie Levin brought her sophisticated palate and culinary training back home to NYC to serve "good, old-fashioned, American food." In 1989 GETE moved a few blocks north to its present location at 483 Amsterdam Avenue, where "regulars" sit side by side with visitors from all over the world. Carrie has made it her life's mission not to disappoint them. She never has. Now, in THE GOOD ENOUGH TO EAT BREAKFAST COOKBOOK, she shares her very best, most in-demand recipes with you!

About this edition

• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0446528269
• ISBN 13: 9780446528269
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256