The authors deliver reliable techniques and dishes for real home cooks. They encourage you to experiment, taste, play with your food, and discover again why cooking and eating are so fascinating and fun.

Food It's undeniably become the social media generation's runway supermodel, its glitzy cover girl. Yet long before putting our dinners and desserts on digital display became the norm, the concept of "sharing" a meal symbolized uniting and bonding as friends or family. In #MaximumFlavorSocial, award-winning culinary artist Adrianne Calvo uses her years of rich experiences, unwavering commitment to building personal connections with her fans, and inseparable relationship with food to bridge its past and present roles in helping to bring people together. Her unmistakable passion and a willingness to be fully transparent with her creative process allows Chef Adrianne to vividly illustrate how the unique fusion of food and social media has produced remarkable results in her career and created rewarding relationships with her continually expanding fan base. Thinking outside of the traditional cookbook "box," #MaximumFlavorSocial takes you on a journey that begins at Adrianne's childhood dinner table and eventually delivers you to the birthplace of her mouth-watering Maximum Flavor delicacies, Chef Adrianne's Vineyard Restaurant and Wine Bar. Along the way, #MaximumFlavorSocial examines the social media communication that Chef Adrianne enjoys with her fans, intertwining revealing looks at some of the online accolades that have constantly motivated her to reach new heights with a select sampling of the amazing fruits of that inspiration: The palate pleasuring recipes that have made Chef Adrianne's a can't-miss fine dining destination for a global array of devoted "foodies"! Featuring the thoughtful yet lighthearted first person perspective of one of today's most accomplished young chefs, #MaximumFlavorSocial is a deliciously fun ride befitting the Maximum Flavor it celebrates!

Miami-based celebrity chef, author, and restaurateur Adrianne Calvo has compiled her 100 finest recipes in her latest and greatest publication! Dive into a world of Maximum Flavor and find out what Chef Adrianne's most delicious dishes are in her fifth cookbook, The A-List: Vol. I and II, a two-part voyage into culinary excellence!

Alex Talbot and Aki Kamozawa, husband-and-wife chefs and the forces behind the popular blog Ideas in Food, have made a living out of being inquisitive in the kitchen. Their book shares the knowledge they have gleaned from numerous cooking adventures, from why tapioca flour makes a silkier chocolate pudding than the traditional cornstarch or flour to how to cold smoke just about any ingredient you can think of to impart a new savory dimension to everyday dishes. Perfect for anyone who loves food, Ideas in Food is the ideal handbook for unleashing creativity, intensifying flavors, and pushing one’s cooking to new heights. This guide, which includes 100 recipes, explores questions both simple and complex to find the best way to make food as delicious as possible. For home cooks, Aki and Alex look at everyday ingredients and techniques in new ways—from toasting dried pasta to lend a deeper, richer taste to a simple weeknight dinner to making quick “micro stocks” or even using water to intensify the flavor of soups instead of turning to long-simmered stocks. In the book’s second part, Aki and Alex explore topics, such as working with liquid nitrogen and carbon dioxide—techniques that are geared towards professional cooks but interesting and instructive for passionate foodies as well. With primers and detailed usage guides for the pantry staples of molecular gastronomy, such as transglutaminase and hydrocolloids (from xanthan gum to gellan), Ideas in Food informs readers how these ingredients can transform food in miraculous ways when used properly. Throughout, Aki and Alex show how to apply their findings in unique and appealing recipes such as Potato Chip Pasta, Root Beer-Braised Short Ribs, and Gingerbread Soufflé. With Ideas in Food, anyone curious about food will find revelatory information, surprising techniques, and helpful tools for cooking more cleverly and creatively at home.

Luscious is a collection of over 60 recipes covering 25 years of "food I fed my family." To Vermont author Kate Laud, family dinners are the foundation of the day and they deserve to be documented in an artfully photographed cookbook. Luscious spans the spectrum from comfort food to birthday cakes to holiday traditions. Whether borrowed from friends or tested through trial and error, the recipes all were awarded praise by Kate's household. Recipe and front cover photo art by Oliver Parini. Back cover art by JC Stahl. When food is delicious and served with love, it becomes Luscious.

As seen in Food52, Los Angeles Times, and Bloomberg Two masters of composition—a chef and a perfumer—present a revolutionary new approach to creating delicious food. Michelin two-star chef Daniel Patterson and celebrated natural perfumer Mandy Aftel are experts at orchestrating ingredients. Yet even in a world awash in cooking shows and food blogs, they noticed, home cooks get little guidance in the art of flavor. In this trailblazing guide, they share the secrets to making the most of your ingredients via an indispensable set of tools and principles: • The Four Rules for creating flavor • A Flavor Compass that points the way to transformative combinations • The flavor-heightening effects of cooking methods • “Locking,” “burying,” and other aspects of cooking alchemy • The Seven Dials that let you fine-tune a dish With more than eighty recipes that demonstrate each concept and put it into practice, The Art of Flavor is food for the imagination that will help cooks at any level to become flavor virtuosos.