Dirt Candy: A Cookbook Flavor-Forward Food from the Upstart New York City Vegetarian Restaurant

by Cohen, Amanda; Dunlavey, Ryan; Hendrix, Grady

• ISBN13: 9780307952172
• ISBN10: 0307952177
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-08-21
• Publisher: Clarkson Potter

Summary

Finally, an all-vegetable cookbook to eclipse all others, with inspired recipes and cool graphic-novel-type art, from the upstart New York City restaurant Dirt Candy.Amanda Cohen does not play by the rules. Though she's a devoted vegetarian chef, she hates veggie burgers and dares to build elaborate and fantastic meals with ingredients usually relegated to side dishes. Just as she revolutionized vegetarian cooking with her thimble-size Dirt Candy restaurant, she's going to make waves with her first cookbook: Dirt Candy: A Cookbook, a first-of-its-kind, with inventive vegetarian and vegan recipes and edgy art.Not your average vegetarian cookbook, Dirt Candy: A Cookbook includes the compelling narrative of the Dirt Candy restaurant illustrated in graphic novel form throughout, from its creation to feeding celebrity regulars. And Amanda's recipes, like her famous Stone-Ground Grits with Tempura Poached Egg, are indulgent and craved by vegetarians and omnivores alike. In fact, all of her dishes appeal to anyone looking for flavour-forward food, including Fennel Salad with Grilled Cheese Croutons, Broccoli Rabe Fettuccini, and Popcorn Pudding with Butterscotch Sauce.Dirt Candy: A Cookbook will break ground in the cookbook category, setting a new standard with its hip look and fresh approach.

Author Biography

AMANDA COHEN is the chef-owner of Dirt Candy, an all-vegetable restaurant located in New York City’s East Village that is recommended by the Michelin guide. Cohen, who has written about food for Saveur, Eater, Salon, and Esquire, was the first vegetarian chef invited to compete on Food Network’s Iron Chef America. She and her restaurant have been featured in the New York Times, Food & Wine, and The New Yorker.
 
RYAN DUNLAVEY is a New York City–based artist whose work includes The Comic Book History of Comics, MODOK: Reign Delay, Tommy Atomic, and the Xeric and ALA award-winning Action Philosophers.
 
GRADY HENDRIX has written for Variety, Slate, Playboy and is coauthor of The Magnolia League, a young adult series from Little, Brown. He is married to Amanda Cohen.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Pickles
Soups
Salads
Appetizers
Sauces
Entrees
Pastas
Desserts
Acknowledgments
Index