Clinton St. Baking Company Cookbook: Breakfast, Brunch & Beyond From New Yorks Favorite Neighborhood Restaurant

Clinton St. Baking Company Cookbook: Breakfast, Brunch & Beyond From New Yorks Favorite Neighborhood Restaurant

Product Description The Clinton St. Baking Company is one of the hottest brunch spots in a city obsessed with brunch. A tiny thirty-two-seat eatery on Manhattans trendy Lower East Side, the restaurant draws long lines of customers who come from far and wide to sample fresh-baked goods, hearty omelets, sugar-cured bacon, and light-as-air pancakes with maple butter. In the Clinton St. Baking Company Cookbook, owners DeDe Lahman and Neil Kleinberg share more than 100 treasured recipes that have made their restaurant a sensation. Learn the secret to their house-made buttermilk biscuits and tomato jam, irresistible muffins and scones, delicious soups and sandwiches, and their decadent, eye-catching desserts. Helpful techniques, like Neils patented omelet flip and tuck, and gorgeous color photographs throughout will have readers cooking like pros in no time, and sharing the delicious results. Review ... The citys number one breakfast spot. - Lonely Planet This book has the kind of recipes that generations of food-obsessed families pass down to each other and guard like family secrets.- Wylie Dufresne, chef/owner, wd-50 Start simply, by whisking cold butter into warm maple syrup, thus creating a life-changing emulsion for pancakes, waffles and loved ones. The book also includes the celebrated pancake recipe served by the chef Neil Kleinberg.- New York Times, The Years Best Cookbooks Included in The Best NYC Cookbooks of 2010 - New York Magazine The debut cookbook from New Yorks brunchiest restaurant celebrates bacon and eggs as an anytime meal, along with the pancakes, French toast and muffins that inspire long weekend lines outside the cultish restaurant. - Time Out New York, Seasons Best Cookbooks About the Author DeDe Lahman is co-owner of the Clinton St. Baking Company and Community Food & Juice. She began her career as an editor and advice columnist at Seventeen magazine. She has worked as a book researcher, freelance writer, brand consultant, and cook. Neil Kleinberg was raised in Brooklyn, and opened his first restaurant, Simons, at the age of 22. After four years at The Water Club under Rick Moonen, he returned to his native Flatbush to reopen the legendary seafood star, Lundys. Neil co-authored The Lundys Cookbook (Harper Collins, 1998), and is a distinguished member of The James Beard Foundation. Excerpt. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Clinton St. Baking Company Cookbook Breakfast, Brunch & Beyond from New Yorks Favorite Neighborhood Restaurant By Lahman, DeDe Little, Brown and Company Copyright 2010 Lahman, DeDeAll right reserved. ISBN: 9780316083379 1 BISCUITS It all started with the buttermilk biscuit. Anyone worth his or her Brooklyn roots knows that the best biscuits in New York, if not the country, were found at the legendary Lundys Restaurant in Sheepshead Baya.k.a. the family seafood destination of the Northern Hemisphere. With 2,800 seats back in the 1950s and 60s, Lundys was to Brooklyn what baseball is to America. Lundys seemed as big as two ball fields to Neil, who, as a kid, made a monthly pilgrimage there on a bus from Flatbush with his entire family because they did not own a car. Lundys was most famous for its shore (seafood) dinners, its long, snaking lines (especially on Sunday nights), and, best of all, its flaky buttermilk biscuits. Jamaican waiters dressed in crisp white coats made their way around the tiled-floor dining room each night with hot biscuits piled on plates and wax-paper-wrapped pats of butter sliding around. The minute they hit the table, those biscuits were devoured, with requests for more broadcast across the crowded room (some of the loudest from the Kleinbergs themselves). When it reopened in 1995, after sixteen years of dormancy, Neil was asked to launch the new Lundys kitchen as executive chef. It was a dream job, and he could not wait to re-create the restaurants m