Accessible Fine Dining
The Art of Creating Food in Your Everyday Kitchen
“100 weeks ago, I felt like was fucked. I had no money, I felt completely alone. Out of necessity, I created a 7 plates discovery menu to make a bit of money. I thought this temporary manual job would at least get me enough money to eat while figuring out a permanent solution. Little did I know what would happen next!
This off the cuffs temporary solution has grown far beyond my wildest dreams. Not only I was profitable within the first month, but within 6 months one of my plates was featured next to culinary legend Heston Blumenthal as "25 dishes to travel around the world for". I got selected out of 40,000 restaurants all over the world, and I had never even worked as a waiter before.”
“Wow! An incredible book filled with wonder and creativity.
I don't consider myself a good cook. I do consider myself a voracious and adventurous diner. Not only are the insights from someone cooking fine dining in a shack in the Costa Rican jungle likely to be adventurous and worthwhile ones, but I felt that the book helped me understand what some of the elements were that helped to elevate the best meals I've been lucky enough to have all over the world.
By this book giving me ideas and explanations about things like different textures, plating, experimenting with food, surprising the diner and telling a story through the dishes you create I understand more about the wide range of delicious things I have had the pleasure of eating in my life.
More than 'only' the cooking, I think the book taps into some strands of the general philosophy behind Noam's impressive body of work- his constant interest in learning and the magic of the world, his dedication to finding the best way to excellence, but his willingness to break the rules- and the integration of opposites in so many of the things that he does.
If you are looking for more inspiration in the kitchen and to see food with fresh eyes, if you want to feel the passion of someone who cares deeply about food (and the people they serve it to) come bursting off the page- then this is the book for you.” Alex Swallow