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Zuni Cafe, a San Francisco favorite, made Gourmet's list of the top 50 restaurants in the US for 2006. It's quite an honor for the restaurant, but seeing such lists can be disappointing for people who don't live near any of the winners. The solution is to pick up some of their cookbooks and try the dishes at home. The Zuni Cafe Cookbook provides everything you would need to know to make any of the many dishes from the restaurant in your own kitchen.
The book, written by Zuni's chef-owner Judy Rodgers, is as well put together as the dishes themselves are. It opens with some of Rodgers' thoughts about cooking and ingredients, so every reader will have a good idea of the philosophies behind the recipes before getting into the cooking. It puts your in the right frame of mind and actually makes you want to spend time, sometimes copious amounts of it, working the recipes.
Some recipes are more obscure than others, and some are perfectly good choices for the home cook, but the book as a whole should be interesting to any cook or foodie even if they only ever use it to make one dish. The one recipe you must try from the book, if you get it, is for the Zuni Roast Chicken with Bread Salad, which is one of the most popular and most well-known dishes at the restaurant.
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9-30-2006 @10:57AM Angela Pitt said... I love this cookbook. The Roesmary-Grilled Chicken
Liver and Bacon Toasts is one my favorite apprtizers.
I like the Chicken Bouillabaise. One of my favorite desserts is the Shortcake with Summer Fruit. The Cheese and Wine section of the book is very informative. The Zuni Cafe Cookbook is a permanent part of my cookbook collection.
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9-30-2006 @2:26PM Spitzmaus said... Having eaten at Zuni many times, I can recommend this cookbook for its authenticity and accessibility. One can ignore the recipe that don't appeal yet still find plenty of choices. The Fried Eggs in Bread Crumbs is my quick-fix supper of choice, the Roast Chicken (mentioned above) perfect; the Sea Bass with Leeks, Potatoes, and Thyme seems cut-and-dry (and it is), but the finished dish may well be one of the best you'll ever make. Many consider the restaurant's hamburger the best in San Francisco -- and yes, the "secret" method is included in the book.
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10-02-2006 @2:43PM anita said... I'd also heartily recommend the Mock Porchetta as a must-try recipe. It's easily as simple as the roast chicken, and a bit less ho-hum in the end result.
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