The Recipe: Classic Dishes for the Home Cook from the World's Best Chefs

Great recipes really great inspirations for new dishes, though the book came slightly dented.

I sent my dad a few recipes from this book and he was amazed( he’s a chef) then I ordered it and I’ve made about 8 recipes. They are easy to follow, a bit more time consuming but well worth the time and effort. I would say most of the recipes are intermediate and some more advanced. A-lot very easy. But Definitely not for someone just starting out. And not for someone who wants a meal in 20 min. The recipes are outstanding so far and need to tweak recipes. Some say weird hard to find ingredients but those ingredients are mostly Asian (a few recipes) only. For someone who likes to really cook, mostly fresh and somewhat elegant, you’ll understand and know most of the ingredients like I did. I had to look up maybe 8 (Asian) ingredients and two or three headings of a recipe. High standard cooking. All will greatly impress the palate.

This book takes your favorite childhood recipes and makes them into something a little more sophisticated, yet delicious just the same. Every recipe I've tried so far has been exceptional. Most of them are easy to replicate even for not-so-experienced home cooks. A wonderful discovery that will have a place among my favorite cookbooks.

You can argue all day long whether these are the definitive versions of the dishes contained within this book. No doubt some are. But, in a way it's irrelevant as the versions of the dishes within these pages are so yummy and some so well known and attached to the chef\writer who created them, that what you have here is almost the definitive recipie book for the 20th(21st) century.Someone has said each should be cooked at least once - If you LOVE food and cooking I'll go along with that. In addition to this the presentation is first class. Beautiful photography, sublime print and binding this looks just as good on the coffee table as it does on the kitchen shelf.I bought this book as a bargain, I'd say it's worth it's RRP. It's even good for chef Bingo - a total who's who of food and food writing, they're (mostly) all here, the big chefs & the successful writers. Essential buy.

Looking for inspiration or just how to do it, this book has the answers. some are simple others require skill. they are all there.