Cookfight: 2 Cooks, 12 Challenges, 125 Recipes, an Epic Battle for Kitchen Dominance by Julia Moskin and Kim Severson

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    • Categories: Quick / easy; Snacks; Entertaining & parties; Mexican; Vegan; Vegetarian
    • Ingredients: dry-roasted peanuts; ground cayenne pepper; limes
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  • Food52

    In the end, all I really wanted was to get in the kitchen & cook alongside them, sharing laughs, jabs, & a big pile of their Bacon-Fat Gingersnaps. Give peace a chance, ladies. A good read, & epic fun

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  • Serious Eats

    It isn't two books in one—it's a collaborative effort between two clever people, both of whom have risen to the occasion. The book might be based on battle, but everything we've seen is a winner.

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  • Epicurious

    While you are welcome to pick sides, and may find one woman's recipes more appealing, the book's competitive spirit remains friendly, and in the end, it's the reader and home cook that wins.

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  • ISBN 10 0061988383
  • ISBN 13 9780061988387
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  • Published Nov 15 2012
  • Format Hardcover
  • Page Count 288
  • Language English
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher Ecco

Publishers Text

Colleagues.
Friends.
Food obsessives.
Work wives.

New York Times writers Julia Moskin and Kim Severson were all of the former, until legendary Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni challenged them to go head-to-head in a culinary duel—a battle for dinner dominance that turned them into kitchen combatants. Armed with only $50 each, Bruni dared them to prepare a full meal for six, a showdown which he would judge for the newspaper. The thrill of battle proved too exhilarating to resist, and that initial clash turned into a yearlong kitchen war as Julia and Kim faced off to tackle the most vexing kitchen predicaments, from how best to console friends in need through old-fashioned home cooking to conjuring kids' food that keeps both parents and children happy at a party.

CookFight is the delicious result of their brinksmanship, a chronicle of their skirmishes over the course of twelve months and a look at how two very different people—best friends from wildly divergent backgrounds—approach the kitchen. In each heartfelt and hilarious chapter, Kim and Julia confront a new "challenge"—those quandaries all home cooks deliberate, from how to strategize a dinner party (the Fancy Food Challenge) to how to eat more seasonally and locally (the Farmer's Market Challenge). Every recipe, from Julia's Caramelized Corn with Mint to Kim's Carnitas, is a delectable testament to their creativity and savvy—only the reader will be able to call the winner.

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