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Cooking 1-2-3:
500 Fabulous Three-Ingredient Recipes

by Rozanne Gold

Description:
This comprehensive volume contains the very best recipes from Gold's award-winning 1-2-3 cookbook series, featuring exquisitely simple dishes, each made with only three ingredients. Designed to make everyday cooking effortless, this definitive tome contains 500 recipes, including 150 brand new ones and hundreds of new recipe ideas.
     Gold is known as the "diva of simplicity," and her singular approach focuses on ingredients of uncompromising quality. The result is food that bursts with fresh, clean, resounding flavors. Each recipe features concise, easy-to-follow directions, and all are organized by category-vegetables, fish, meat, pasta and grains, soups and simple breads, eggs and cheese, and more-making shopping and meal preparation easy as 1-2-3.
       As Bon Appétit "Entertaining Made Easy" columnist, Gold knows how to entertain simply and with great style. She includes special sections on drinks and party food and hors d'oeuvres, and has created 30 delicious menus that provide the promise of abundance without the burden of hours of preparation.
     This is the "Gold standard" for simple, original, and satisfying food-perfect for the way we live today.

Review
Wow,what a gold-mine! Rozanne Gold is a genius and genie when it comes to flavors. I'd recommend this book to aspiring chefs to understand flavor systems as well as home cooks who want a little sophistication in their menus. This is NOT open a can or box and dump cooking---far from it. This is a collection of recipes developed over nearly a decade by a chef who looks at minimalism just as an artist or poet does. My favorite recipes are cornish hen under a brick,wine dark short ribs, and chocolate truffle torte. But with 500 recipes I'll bet I'll find more. She even makes turnips sound good.
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