A Platter of Figs and Other Recipes

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Forget about getting back to the land, David Tanis just wants you to get back to the kitchen

For six months a year, David Tanis is the head chef at Chez Panisse, the Berkeley, California, restaurant where he has worked alongside Alice Waters since the 1980s in creating a revolution in sustainable American cuisine. The other six months, Tanis lives in Paris in a seventeenth-century apartment, where he hosts intimate dinners for friends and paying guests, and prepares the food in a small kitchen equipped with nothing more than an old stove, a little counter space, and a handful of wellused pots and pans.

This is the book for anyone who wants to gather and feed friends around a table and nurture their conversation. It’s not about showing off with complicated techniques and obscure ingredients. Worlds away from the showy Food Network personalities, Tanis believes that the most satisfying meals—for both the cook and the guest—are invariably the simplest.

Home cooks can easily re-create any of his 24 seasonal, market-driven menus, from spring’s Supper of the Lamb (Warm Asparagus Vinaigrette; Shoulder of Spring Lamb with Flageolet Beans and Olive Relish; Rum Baba with Cardamom) to winter’s North African Comfort Food (Carrot and Coriander Salad; Chicken Tagine with Pumpkin and Chickpeas). Best of all, Tanis is an engaging guide with a genuine gift for words, whose soulful approach to food will make any kitchen, big or small, a warm and compelling place to spend time.

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I really enjoy this book and look forward to trying the recipes. I was given this book for Christmas by my family and I must say it is a pleasure to read and I love the way the menus are arranged seasonally. Great. I have already seen in the book some pointers I can use in my overall cooking and I love the narrative and explanation that goes along with every menu. I like to cook seasonally and with local ingredient as much as possible and to keep food as close as possible to its natural state. It is easy to read and his recipes are low fuss.

Arranging the menus by season makes the book useful all year and the pictures are as enticing as they are beautiful. Food is more than just fuel and a cookbook is more than just recipes. I hope that he writes more books. Directions are clear and results satisfying. Tanis reminds the reader of the enjoyment of sharing a meal and the social opportunity of preparation. We share the flavor of memories in his writing.

Lots of tips on how to cook/prepare food that can carry over into different recipes. I don't eat meat but there are plenty of veggie recipes here, and good ones at that. The book is beautifully designed, nice typography, simple, great photos. This is a cookbook you can read. Informative and entertaining stories from the author's cooking and life experience begin each new section.

And that's just in the introduction. Add a nice frosty beer and that's a good snack for grown-ups. I had to try, even if it seemed dubious, and he was right: fresh sliced figs sprinkled with good salt and a drizzle of olive oil are delicious.

For some of the recipes you have to be a serious foodie AND have money to burn on exotic ingredients. Some recipes, but not all. This cookbook is part memoir, part travelogue, completely beautiful to read.

Most only require a decent deli counter, a good produce section or farmers' market, and a sense of adventure. The desserts are especially delightful, we loved almost all of them. Like morel mushrooms, saffron, rabbit, lobster, etc.

Not on our budget, nor in our local stores.

I bought it for a gift but will now have to retain for myself. When separating the pages were damaged - not avoidable. Book is fantastic though the actual quality of the manufacture is very average. Approximately 20-30 pages were glued together with what appears to be binding glue.

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