10: All the Foods We Love and Ten Perfect
Recipes for Each : Steak. Burgers. Chocolate. Pasta. Ice
cream. Shrimp. The first asparagus of spring, corn and
tomatoes from the height of summer. These are the foods
people love-passionately, unconditionally. Sheila Lukins
identifies 32 of them, from prime rib and other
Important Roasts to perfect Hors d'oeuvres. Then
she obsessively offers the ten very best recipes for
each, and voila: Ten, the dazzling be-all and end-all
cookbook from one of America's most beloved food
writers, coauthor of "The Silver Palate
Cookbook" and "The New Basics Cookbook"
and author, most recently, of "Celebrate ,"
"Ten "is perfection, the peak, a repertoire of
pure crave. "Ten" is the ten best roast
chicken recipes, including Asian-Scented orange Chicken
and Pot-Roasted Chicken Santiago. The ten best burgers,
with a classic Bacon Swiss Burger with Tomato and
Avocado and Jeremiah Tower's extravagant Black
Truffled Burger. Ten best mashed potatoes-you
haven't lived until you try Sheila's silky,
sexy Lobster Mashed Potatoes. The ten best Sunday
dinners, ten best seafood salads, ten best cakes. With
over 300 recipes, including dishes from top chefs, such
as Tom Colicchio's Roasted Rack of Pork, Judy
Rodgers's Zuni Cafe Roast Chicken with Bread Salad,
Anthony Bourdain's Choucroute Garni, Tom
Valenti's Red wine and Tomato Braised Duck, and others.