Pierre Gagnaire: 175 Innovative Home Recipes - Easy Gourmet Cooking for Dinner Parties & Family Meals

This book is totally worth adding to your collection if you are a foodie or for giving to the dedicated home chef / serious cook. Great recipes and flavours. Not a book for your average Rachel Ray home cook, unless they are adventurous with their food and flavors, if they are, then they'll be very happy.If you are reading this review then you probably already know who Pierre Gagnaire is. You may even have his other books, which are very pretty, coffee table book like and the recipes need DEDICATION and PATIENCE to produce. Those recipes are really for inspiration in the most.What this book does is what the title says - bring you a world class chefs tastes and flavours into a more accesible format. The recipes are simple, many of them less than ten ingredients. Some prep maybe necessary for some of his basic sauces buy it's all very approachable and doable in the home kitchen. One or two are nicely challenging and complex.MOST IMPORTANT: The recipes are awesome. Familiar and French, yet refreshing. Unexpected and incredibly inventive.A selection:Crab,Green Mango, Pineapple and Green Pepper SaladSmoked Fish Platter with Currants, Grated Cheese and Fennel and MolassesCaramel Spread with Passion FruitLiegoise Waffles ( He even differentiates and provides recipes for regional variants)Salad of Fresh Button Mushrooms with Shiso Leaves and Salmon CaviarBeef and Sardine GonzoFresh Goat Cheese Crepes with Honey and AlmondsChilled Verbena InfusionOrange and Cardamom CoffeeGrapefruit Zest with Yogurt and Lavender HoneyZucchini PestoCherry Tomatoes With PastisFresh Raspberries with ParmesanNote: Photography is lush but rarely of the dish at hand. Mostly of ingredients, process and the like. I kind of liked it.I rarely leave reviews but this one so deserves a good one. It's a great tome and refreshing to one's cooking to read. You also get a great education with each recipe - the chef has educational and instructive notes for the chef about recognizing good produce, techniques and more.September 7, 2013 - The reviews below don't do this book justice, take a look at reviews in Europe...Pierre Gagnaire Home Recipes Twist