Cordon Blue Collar: Smart Shopping - Smart Cooking

Schipacci, Francis X.,Levine, Los Lobos

ISBN 10: 0967189209 / ISBN 13: 9780967189208

Published by Frangipanni Pubns, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cordon Blue Collar: Smart Shopping - Smart Cooking
• Publisher: Frangipanni Pubns
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0967189209
• ISBN 13: 9780967189208
• Binding: spiral_bound
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

In this funny, informative (and downright sexy) cookbook, Joseph A. Schipacci lets his time honored, top secret recipes, cooking and shopping philosophies out of the bag so that you, the teeming masses of cooking-impaired Americans can learn how to come home and put something together. Assisted by writer Frank Schipacci, Joseph details his tips, tricks and secrets in a mind-blowing, disturbingly explicit manner. The Schipacci boys debase, debunk and debone American food culture.

About the Author

The son of Baltimore Italians, Joseph was raised among the simmering pots and bustling activity of the family restaurant, Ristorante Strunzo.

Joseph has food embedded in his soul and at the age of ten he could cook circles around the world's best French gourmets. But the industry was not for Joseph. He was a cook, not a chef. He didn't have time for garnishes. Joe didn't need no dots and squiggles of raspberry sauce on fifty dollar china. He dropped the restaurant business like a hot potato.

Almost forty years later, Joseph grew more and more disgusted with the current state of cookbooks and cooking shows. The need to create his own was too great; the urge was like a hammer beating in his skull. But where could he start? He could cook, but he couldn't write. That's when he enlisted the help of his cousin, Frank Schipacci, and began collaborating on a book. And this is the result. A cookbook so powerful that it has changed the lives of millions of Americans and thousands more each day. It's a little bit Bombeck, a little bit Trillin, a little bit Terkel, and a whole lotta Schipacci. It's one wild culinary ride from the 50's to the 00's.