Brothers in the Kitchen: A Celebration of Friendship and Fine Food

By Michel Deville, Brendan O'Farrell, Brendan O'Farrell; Michel Deville; Dreamcooks Net

Brothers in the Kitchen is a very special cookbook and much more. It's a tribute to good friends, close collaboration and years of good times. A chance meeting, a shared love of food, and a strange... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0977980707
• ISBN13: 9780977980703
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Favorite Recipes Pr
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Enthusiastically recommended as a core addition to any gourmet quality kitchen cookbook collection!

Some 35 years ago Brendan O'Farrell, an international business man, and Michel Deville, a French Master Chef, became the best of friends who shared an appreciation for good service and great food. They opened a restaurant (La Table de Michael) in Sain-Remy de Provence near Avignon in the South of France in the spring of 2005. Now having successfully collaborated as restauranteurs, they have combined their love of the culinary arts to publish a compendium of savory recipes laid out with careful step-by-step instructions so clear and concise as to be able to transform ordinary kitchen cooks into accomplished chefs of French cuisine. Wonderfully illustrated throughout with finished dishes, the recipes comprising "Brothers In The Kitchen" range from Tri-Color Salad; to New Orleans Style Gumbo; to Roast Sirloin Encrusted in English Mustard; to Jumbo Prawns Flambe with Pernod; to Spinach with Swiss Cheese Sauce; to Mint Chocolate Delight. Enhanced with the inclusion of wonderful anecdotes and stories, "Brothers In The Kitchen" begins with thematically appropriate advice about how to get started in the kitchen, matching wines with foods, stocks and savors, and goes on to include sage counsel respecting menus, special restaurants and restaurateurs, conversion tables for cooking, and more. "Brothers In The Kitchen" is enthusiastically recommended as a core addition to any gourmet quality kitchen cookbook collection!

HAPPY COOKING!

This is a really great cookbook. It is well organized, has fabulous photos, and the recipes are very easy to follow. Both the recipes and the accompanying anecdotes are written in an exceptionally user friendly style, making this a cookbook that you will want to actually sit down and read! This is one I find myself coming back to, time after time, for easy preparation and terrific results!

Enjoyable Reading Cookbook

Brendan writes exceptionally well. I like his style; it's very upbeat with a joie de vivre feeling. Comfortable punctuation makes the writing flow nicely. It's concise and unambiguous without being the least bit pedantic. The anecdotes, biographical sketches, introductions to place, and mini-tutorial lead-ins are most enjoyable. (Man, would I have loved some of Michel's 150-pound halibut!) The complementary information provided about the people and their environments makes the recipes that much more appreciated. I am very much enjoying the book and the learning experience. It's like a travelogue. I have never really "read" a cookbook before. But then, this is not an ordinary cookbook.

Far more than expected!

It is unusual to be completely satisfied once you actually delve into a cookbook and try to produce the "plat". Brothers in the Kitchen works! It is clear that much attention was put into clarifying the recipes to make them easy to follow, each with a photograph. The accompanying essays are light and engaging. I have ordered several to give as holiday gifts... if not for cooking to impress, to make a beautiful coffee table addition.

Delicious, straightforward, & entertaining

This book was a pleasure to read & the pictures made my mouth water. The recipes are designed to be successfully followed by both the seasoned chef & the newly initiated, with pretty impressive results. I tried the "Death by Chocolate" and was ready to go to heaven! Anyone who yearns for a taste of Provence, whether it be at the dinner table or in a favorite reading nook, will be deeply satisfied. Also, unlike some other books of this genre, I think that men would especially enjoy its particular combination of culinary craftmanship, staightforward writing & entertaining stories.