21 Mar Gilded Fork Cookbook Weekly Roundup 3/21/09
Testing for our Gilded Fork Cookbook continues, and we have so many wonderful kitchen helpers offering their interpretations of our dishes! One of our ardent supporters, and a veteran cookbook writer herself, Pat Churchill, a New Zealander who lives in Melbourne, Australia, blogged about the recipes she tested for us at Cooking Down Under. One of my favorite photos of hers is also one of my favorite recipes in the book, Minted Pea Purée Canapés in Puff Pastry Vol-au-Vents.
Another wonderful recipe tester is the incomparable Andrea Meyers, who blogged about her process and the resulting photos on her popular blog at www.AndreasRecipes.com. One of the dishes she tested was Chef Moni’s Caramelized Apple Bread Pudding.
And as I mentioned last week, we have a number of Personal Chefs who are helping us with the cookbook (and actually making many of our recipes for their clients). Lisa Brisch, owner of Dinner Thyme Personal Chef Service offered this photo of our Bon Temps Crab Cakes with Rémoulade.
Robyn Barber, owner of Barber’s Bistro Personal Chef Service whose Café Brulot photo we featured last week, also offered this fabulous interpretation of our Shrimp Ceviche.
The same recipe was tested by Deborah Mele of Italian Food Forever. here’s one of Debi’s photos:
Debi also offered us a beautifully simple yet perfectly composed photo of our Shrimp & Avocado Canapés:
Next week, I’ll have more news and photos as the cookbook continues to shape up. I can’t say it enough, we have had so many wonderful people contributing to make this project a success, and we really love them. The creativity and passion that’s expressed by people who love great food is really inspiring. An example is the wonderful Jaden from Steamy Kitchen. After interacting online for some time, we finally met in person this week. Jaden was visiting New York from Tampa, and attended our Food Blogger Playdate, and not only brought me truffles and black garlic to play with, she also helped out by photographing some of the dishes we were making that afternoon. I’ll share some of her photos next week, along with some I took myself for the book.