Prune: A Cookbook,New

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom Gabrielle Hamilton, bestselling author of Blood, Bones & Butter, comes her eagerly anticipated cookbook debut filled with signature recipes from her celebrated New York City restaurant Prune.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLYNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE SEASON BYTime O: The Oprah Magazine Bon Apptit EaterA selftrained cook turned James Beard Awardwinning chef, Gabrielle Hamilton opened Prune on New Yorks Lower East Side fifteen years ago to great acclaim and lines down the block, both of which continue today. A deeply personal and gracious restaurant, in both menu and philosophy, Prune uses the elements of home cooking and elevates them in unexpected ways. The result is delicious food that satisfies on many levels.Highly original in concept, execution, look, and feel, the Prune cookbook is an inspired replica of the restaurants kitchen binders. It is written to Gabrielles cooks in her distinctive voice, with as much instruction, encouragement, information, and scolding as you would find if you actually came to work at Prune as a line cook. The recipes have been tried, tasted, and tested dozens if not hundreds of times. Intended for the home cook as well as the kitchen professional, the instructions offer a range of signals for cooksa heads up on when you have gone too far, things to watch out for that could trip you up, suggestions on how to traverse certain uncomfortable parts of the journey to ultimately help get you to the final destination, an amazing dish.Complete with more than with more than 250 recipes and 250 color photographs, home cooks will find Prunes most requested recipesGrilled Headon Shrimp with Anchovy Butter, Bread Heels and Pan Drippings Salad, Tongue and Octopus with Salsa Verde and Mimosad Egg, Roasted Capon on Garlic Crouton, Prunes famous Bloody Mary (and all 10 variations). Plus, among other items, a chapter entitled Garbagesmart ways to repurpose foods that might have hit the garbage or stockpot in other restaurant kitchens but are turned into appetizing bites and notions at Prune.Featured here are the recipes, approach, philosophy, evolution, and nuances that make them distinctively Prunes. Unconventional and honest, in both tone and content, this book is a welcome expression of the cookbook as we know it.Praise for PruneFresh, fascinating . . . entirely pleasurable . . . Since 1999, when the chef Gabrielle Hamilton put Triscuits and canned sardines on the first menu of her East Village bistro, Prune, she has nonchalantly broken countless rules of the food world. The rule that a successful restaurant must breed an empire. The rule that chefs who happen to be women should unconditionally support one another. The rule that great chefs dont make great writers (with her memoir, Blood, Bones & Butter). And now, the rule that restaurant food has to be simplified and prettied up for home cooks in order to produce a useful, irresistible cookbook. . . . [Prune] is the closest thing to the bulging looseleaf binder, stuck in a corner of almost every restaurant kitchen, ever to be printed and bound between cloth covers. (These happen to be a beautiful deep, dark magenta.)The New York TimesOne of the most brilliantly minimalist cookbooks in recent memory . . . at once conveys the thrill of restaurant cooking and the wisdom of the author, while making for a charged reading experience.Publishers Weekly (starred review)