On the Line: Inside the World of Le Bernardin by Eric Ripert and Christine Muhlke

  • Wild Alaskan and smoked salmon with apple, celery, and baby watercress and jalapeño emulsion

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    • Categories: Appetizers / starters; American
    • Ingredients: apples; salmon; smoked salmon; parsley; baby watercress; shallots; jalapeño chiles; celery
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  • ISBN 10 1579653693
  • ISBN 13 9781579653699
  • Published Nov 04 2008
  • Format Hardcover
  • Page Count 240
  • Language English
  • Countries United States
  • Imprint Artisan

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Take one top New York restaurant, add danger, drama, and dialogue, toss in their best recipes, and you have a cooking classic.

How does a 4-star restaurant stay on top for more than two decades? In On the Line, chef Eric Ripert takes readers behind the scenes at Le Bernardin, one of just three New York City restaurants to earn three Michelin stars. Any fan of gourmet dining who ever stole a peek behind a restaurant kitchen's swinging doors will love this unique insider's account, with its interviews, inventory checklists, and fly-on-the-wall dialogue that bring the business of haute cuisine to life.

From the sudden death of Le Bernardin's founding chef, Gilbert Le Coze, to Ripert's stressful but triumphant takeover of the kitchen at age 29, the story has plenty of drama. But as Chef Ripert and writer Christine Muhlke reveal, every day is an adventure in a perfectionist restaurant kitchen. Foodies will love reading about the inner workings of a top restaurant, from how a kitchen is organized to the real cost of the food and the fierce discipline and organization it takes to achieve culinary perfection on the plate almost 150,000 times a year.

Meanwhile, Le Bernardin's modern French cuisine, with its emphasis on seafood, comes to life in sophisticated recipes, including 'Striped Bass with Sweet Corn Puree, Grilled Shishito Peppers, Shaved Smoked Bonito, and Mole Sauce', and 'Pan-Roasted Cod with Chorizo, Snow Peas, Piquillo Peppers, and Soy-Lime Butter Sauce'.

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