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Ad Hoc at Home: Family-Style Recipes

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As a novice cook, I appreciated that this oversize book has lots of full-colour illustrations that detail tasks I've never been quite sure about, like how to properly truss a chicken or cut it into eight pieces. It has detailed instructions for beginners but plenty of inspiring recipes that are more challenging. It was not nearly as intimidating as I thought a Thomas Keller cookbook would be, and if you like to read cookbooks and spend time a bit of time in the kitchen, I highly recommend it. It's more than pretty enough to keep on your coffee table, too.

This cookbook is great to have in the collection. Wonderful recipes, beautiful images and it isn't completely full of crazy high end ingredients. Perfect for cooking family style meals.

This book is absolutely fantastic! Although I do usually want a cook book that has a picture for every dish, Keller demonstrates his love for food with such passion that after the first few recopies I hardly noticed the lack of visuals. This isn't to say the there are no pictures, in fact the photos that are present in the book are hands down some of the nicest food photography I have seen.

Everyone should own this book.

Loads of sexy food pictures, insights into kitchen methodology, and a great section on pantry items. This hefty book gets hauled off the shelf so often it might count as exercise. Which is comforting given the amount of butter Thomas Keller suggests.

Every recipe I've made has turned out beautifully. It's a nice change from the Bouchon and French Laundry books that I don't even browse unless I have an entire weekend and an extra few hundred dollars to devote to the kitchen!

A huge book with more info than most. Excellent very informative info on basic to complex cooking techniques and recipes. Easily worth every penny. If I were to pick one book to have in the home this would be it, little bit of everything.

I just think you cannot go wrong with a book with Thomas Keller's stamp on it. This is instructional and very useful. It guides me through much of my menu planning and preparation.

Doug Murray