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Amanda Hesser noted that she was pleasantly surprised at the way the duality of Geoffrey Zakarian's Town/Country: 150 Recipes for Life Around the Table played out. It sounds like it works a lot better than Tiffani's "dual" menu in the Top Chef Finale. The book features 65 ingredients, each prepared in both a "town" and a "country" manner. Predictably, the "town" preparation is more involved and uses more unusual ingredients, meaning that the dishes are definitely more along the lines of what you would see in a trendy restaurant than at a friend's home. The "country" recipes are decidedly homier, yet still with an undeniable elegance. Chef Geoffrey Zakarian named the book after his two New York restaurants, Town and Country, and the differing styles of the restaurants and the recipes are designed to compliment each other; each pair of recipes shows the versatility of the ingredients by presenting them in two different ways. Hesser, rightly, points out that some of the recipes are not for amateurs, but for the ambitious home chef, this book presents a variety of impressive, delicious options.

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