Gotham Bar and Grill Cook Book / Coffee Table Book. Hardcover. 400 Pages​​​​​

Gotham Bar and Grill Cookbook / Coffee-Table Book by Alfred Portale  • Hardcover  • 400 Pages • Broadway; First Edition (October 13, 1997)  Condition: Excellent (9/10) ————————————————  Home cooks rarely have the chance to learn about cooking firsthand from one of the nation's most revered chefs. In this cookbook, the first of its kind, Chef Alfred Portale offers his readers the opportunity to do just that.    The chef of the Gotham Bar and Grill offers not only recipes, but also a peek into the mind of a chef--sharing a host of suggestions, anecdotes, and advice designed to release the reader from recipe dependence and inspire him or her to think like a chef at home.  Portale reveals the secrets that led to this success.  More than a hundred dishes, comprised of over two hundred recipes, await the reader. Portale has loaded these pages with notes on variations and flavor building that indicate how the recipes might be changed by a substitution of ingredients or enriched with additional elements.   This beautiful book will look great displayed in the living room, dining room or, of course, the kitchen. Vibrant photography, vivid descriptions, and imaginative recipes populate this wonderful volume.   As he says in his introduction, My hope is for you to be able to master these recipes and confidently use them in a variety of dishes and contexts of your own design, perhaps creating your own signature dishes.