Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 158234180X
Manufacturer: Bloomsbury USA
Release Date: 2004-09-23
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Editorial Reviews

Product Description:

In this long-awaited cookbook, Anthony Bourdain reveals the hearty, delicious recipes of Les Halles and the provocative tricks of the trade that have made him a celebrated name across the globe.

Before stunning the world with his bestselling Kitchen Confidential and A Cook’s Tour, Anthony Bourdain spent years serving some of the best French brasserie food in New York. With its no-nonsense, down-to-earth atmosphere, Les Halles matches Bourdain’s style perfectly: a restaurant where you can dress down, talk loudly, drink a little too much wine, and have a good time with friends. Now, Bourdain gives us his Les Halles Cookbook, a cookbook like no other: candid, funny, audacious, full of his signature charm and bravado.

So bring a sharp knife, a big appetite, and a willingness to learn, as Bourdain teaches you everything you need to know to prepare classic French bistro fare. While you’re being guided, in simple steps, through recipes like roasted veal short ribs and steak frites, escargots aux noix, and foie gras aux pruneaux, you’ll feel like he’s in the kitchen beside you-reeling off a few insults when you’ve scorched the sauce, and then patting you on the back for finally getting the steak tartare right.

As practical as it is entertaining, Anthony Bourdain’s Les Halles Cookbook is a can’t-miss treat for cookbook lovers, aspiring chefs, and Bourdain fans everywhere.

Customer Reviews

Meez. ’nuff said by mwah
My husband and I went out for dinner with friends and we ended up in a bookstore. Because we were all a little toasted, we wound up with books we already owned. My non-cooking husband went back to exchange them with the instructions “just buy a cookbook.” He came back with Les Halles, and we spent a great evening cooking together. Bourdain just makes it all make sense. I’m a decent cook, but getting everything together at once is always challenging, and his emphasis on thinking out your recipes and having your “meez” en place before starting is just what I needed to tackle the dual projects of getting a great meal on the table and introducing the spouse to basic cooking skills.

A truly wonderful gift by Roadshow1
After perusing the other reviews of this book, it is amazing that so many people think the exact same thing I was thinking. This book is a great gift. I recieved it for Christmas a year ago and believe it is the best present I have ever recieved on that particular holiday. The thing that makes Anthony Bourdain so fun to read and watch on TV is his laid back manner. It is like reading a cookbook that you yourself would write if you had the time and motivation. I have seen very few cookbooks with so many F-bombs, and this makes it unique as well as interesting. It makes you want to try the recipes, if only just to see what he will say next.

The tone is perfect for a book of recipes of French bistro cuisine. The very things that make that kind of food appealing, its simplicity, its quality and it’s focus on available and fresh ingredients are the same things that make it so much of a treat to read or to cook a recipe from. It is honest and forthright, fresh, and sometimes hilarious. It keeps you wanting to read through it more than once. You can also tell that even though he usually comes across as a smart aleck most of the time, that he truly does care about the quality and traditions that make French cooking so great.

well worth getting by Alfonso E. Urdaneta
I’ve probably cooked 80% of the meals in this book with no duds. Well written, funny, easy to follow cookbook written by Bourdain back in the days when he actually cared more about food than being a food celebrity.

Anthony Bourdain’s Les Halles by Andrew J. Munao Sr.
From the beginning of how to make stocks and demi glazes in lieu of purchasing them to the recipes the author has a way explaining each one differently and sometimes funny.

Owning a restaurant for many years and never indulging in Bistro Cooking this book will be a big help. Thank you Anthony for writing it.

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