Winning Styles Cookbook: Recipes from the James Beard Foundation Award Winning Chefs

Inscribed "To Donna, It was a pleasure meeting you at Clio! All the best, Ken Oringer". Ken Oringer (born 1965 in Paramus, New Jersey) is a Boston-based chef who is a business partner of Jamie Bissonnette. In 1995, Oringer returned to Boston, and won praise for his work at Tosca in suburban Hingham. Within a year, the restaurant was dubbed "Best on the South Shore," and Ken was profiled on CNN. In 1997, he opened Clio in Boston's Eliot Hotel. Clio has been a Gourmet magazine Top Table. Oringer has also appeared on several Food Network shows, as guest, cook and winning contestant. Winning Styles Cookbook is a veritable all-star team of super chefs who reveal the stories behind their success as well as more than 100 recipes ? all complemented by stunning full-color photography throughout. Food professionals and home cooks alike will revel in this practical guide that is also a beautiful testament to the memory of the illustrious James Beard. This inspired new cookbook will give the reader the opportunity to learn the techniques for preparing basics such as stocks and sorbets to the chefs? prized risottos and ragouts ? all of which are accompanied by food and beverage pairings. But the book, with its many photographs of the chefs themselves, is a window into their lives and a moving, personal account of the struggle and success of these dedicated and gifted men and women. Winning Styles Cookbook is a unique compendium that matches the lives and faces of the artists to the great work that is the legacy of James Beard.…