Knife Drop: Creative Recipes Anyone Can Cook

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This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees. Explore a library of QR codes linking to video tutorials showcasing key cooking techniques, from holding a chef's knife and making a piping bag to pronouncing "gnocchi" the correct way. During his final year at Harvard in 2018 he auditioned for Gordon Ramsay's MasterChef, becoming the youngest finalist in the competition. Honestly, I didn’t know what to expect from this book, but now that I’ve read it, I can see why Gordon Ramsay was willing to put his name on it and supply a foreword. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages.

Nick DiGiovanni is a chef, food content creator, and world record holder for numerous food-related feats. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item.As for the recipes themselves, I’m quite pleased to report that the vast majority of them look like something I’d actually like to cook and/or eat. Also the QR codes in the beginning with the videos, I feel like I'm watching the most informational tik toks I've ever seen. Admittedly, that means there’s not room for quite as many recipes in here, but I find it makes for a more attractive, and indeed more useful, cookbook. Chicken Scrambled Eggs- Ever take a whiff of a jar of bouillon powder and think “I want a meal that tastes like only this.

Recipes range from classics (buttermilk fried chicken, cozy beef chili, and devil’s food cupcakes) to original creations (blueberry Brie grilled cheese, spicy mezcal rigatoni, and no-churn Nutella ice cream). Knife Drop also includes Nick's expert advice on equipment, ingredients, and techniques, so home cooks of any ability level can pick up some new skills. The quality of this cookbook is what you would expect a cookbook to be and the recipes have easy to follow instructions with delicious looking photographs! Building on a foundation of staple recipes such as basic pasta dough and homemade butter, Nick shares a mouth-watering selection of his favorite recipes including Custard Yogurt Toast, Grilled Peach Burrata Salad, Smoked Bacon Carbonara, and his signature Master Chef Chocolate Crack Pie.I have a love/hate relationship with Gordon Ramsay and everything about this cover had me thinking it was going to be full of pretentious, stupid recipes created by a stupid, pretentious kid (I judge books by their cover, that's what they are there for. Home-cooked food doesn’t have to be over-the-top, fussy, or time-intensive to be absolutely amazing. I'm trying to do one recipe a week, and then I'll probably just start over from the beginning and repeat forever. One thing I particularly like, and I don’t know whether to credit the author or the publisher for this, is that every single recipe in the book is accompanied by an attractive full-page illustration so you can see exactly what each dish is supposed to look like.

The pictures were exciting and so many things seemed like they’d be really tasty… and then I learned that for the first time in a long time, I’d found a cookbook I didn’t like. He auditioned for Gordon Ramsay's MasterChef TV competition in 2018 during his senior year at Harvard.The theme here seems to be interesting, creative, restaurant-quality types of dishes, but which can be (relatively) easily prepared by home cooks in a home kitchen.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. I'm not sure if I should be upset by his dislike of soup or pity him for never tasting a really great one.The first cookbook of celebrity chef and Masterchef US finalist Nick DiGiovanni, Knife Drop is a beautifully produced glossy paged edition. Feast on New England favorites like Browned Butter Lobster Rolls and Garlic Butter Steak Tips, enjoy decadent pasta dishes like Smoky Mezcal Rigatoni and Sungold Spaghetti, and recreate fan favorites like his Viral Pasta Chips and Dino Nuggets. And despite a couple maybe not quite hitting the same theme as the rest of the book, I consider the book on the whole quite a success.