Cook Like a Local: Flavors That Can Change How You Cook and

Cook Like a Local: Flavors That Can Change How You Cook and See the World: A Cookbook

Chris Shepherd, James Beard Award-winning chef of Houstonâ€™s Underbelly Hospitality, is a champion of that cityâ€™s incredibly diverse immigrant cuisines. In his restaurant, he calls out the names of the cooks--Vietnamese, Korean, Indian, and othersâ€”who have inspired him, and in his book, he teaches you how to work with those flavors and cultures with respect and creativity.Â

Houstonâ€™s culinary reputation as a steakhouse town was put to rest by Chris Shepherd, the Robb Reportâ€™s Best Chef of the Year. A cook with insatiable curiosity, heâ€™s trained not just in fine-dining restaurants but in Houstonâ€™s Korean grocery stores, Vietnamese noodle shops, Indian kitchens, and Chinese mom-and-pops. His food, incorporating elements of all these cuisines, tells the story of the city, and country, in which he lives. An advocate, not an appropriator, he asks his diners to go and visit the restaurants that have inspired him, and in this book he brings us along to meet, learn from, and cook with the people who have taught him.Â

The recipes include signatures from his restaurantâ€”favorites such as braised goat with Korean rice dumplings, or fried vegetables with caramelized fish sauce. The lessons go deeper than recipes: the book is about how to understand the pantries of different cuisines, how to taste and use these flavors in your own cooking. Organized around key ingredients like soy, dry spices, or chiles, the chapters function as master classes in using these seasonings to bring new flavors into your cooking and new life to flavors you already knew. But even beyond flavors and techniques, the book is about a bigger story: how Chris, a son of Oklahoma who looks like a football coach, came to be â€œadoptedâ€ by these immigrant cooks and families, how he learned to connect and share and truly cross cultures with a sense of generosity and respect, and how we can all learn to make not just better cooking, but a better community, one meal at a time.
Country USA
Brand Clarkson Potter
Manufacturer Clarkson Potter
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber Illustrations, unspecified
Color Red
ReleaseDate 2019-09-03
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781524761264

Country	USA
Brand	Clarkson Potter
Manufacturer	Clarkson Potter
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	Illustrations, unspecified
Color	Red
ReleaseDate	2019-09-03
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781524761264

Cook Like a Local: Flavors That Can Change How You Cook and See the World: A Cookbook

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