How to Cook Like a Man A Memoir of Cookbook Obsession

Name: How to Cook Like a Man A Memoir of Cookbook Obsession
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ISBN: 9781608191024

ISBN-10: 1608191028

ISBN-13: 9781608191024

Edition: 2012

Authors: Daniel Duane

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When Daniel Duane became a father, this San Francisco surfer and climber found himself trapped at home with no clue how to contribute. Inept at so many domestic tasks, and less than eager to change diapers, he took on dinner duty. Duane had a few tricks: pasta, stir-fry … well, actually, those were hisonlytwo tricks. But he had a biographical anomaly: Chef Alice Waters had been his preschool teacher. So he cracked one of her Chez Panisse cookbooks and cooked his way through it. And so it went with all seven of her other cookbooks, then on to those of other famous chefs—thousands of recipes in all, amounting to an epic eight-year cooking journey.Butchering whole lambs at home, teaching…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 5/8/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Preface: A Man's Place Is in the Kitchen



The Burrito Years



You Are the Way You Eat



On the Cookbook as Scripture



The Alice Years



Recipes Are for Idiots Like Me



We All Need Something to Believe In



What French Women Can Teach Us



The Happy Hunting Ground



On the Role of the Menu in Human Affairs



What Is Cooking For?



The Meat Period in Every Man's Life



My Kung Fu Is Not Strong



On Cooking and Carpentry



Gluttony as Heroism



Recipes Are for Idiots Like Me, Take Two



What We Talk About When We Talk About Our Last Supper


Acknowledgments


Selected Reading