Crave

A beautiful and innovative cookbook by the award-winning executive chef of Bastide--one of the top-rated restaurants in Los Angeles. For top chef Ludo Lefebvre, cooking is a sensual process that involves all five senses at every stage of preparation. In Crave, he offers more than one hundred original, elegant, and unbelievably delicious recipes that teach us the joy--and skill--pf cooking with the senses. Lebvre offers groundbreaking techniques for contrasting and balancing spices; he shows how to choose meat and produce and how to test food through touch; he teaches the difference between the sound of butter and oil that's ready for cooking and the sound of burning; he gives visual clues that can enhance presentation; and he introduces recipes that tantalize the sense of smell to heighten the experience of a dish. These inspiring recipes will encourage you to slow down and become fully absorbed as you learn to cook with all five senses. See: Oysters on the Half Shell with Red Beet Jelly and Shallot Cream Touch: Fried Stuffed Tomato Beignets Smell: Chicken Etouffee in Dried Verbena and Curry Leaves Hear: Roast Beef with Long Pepper and Spiced French Fries Taste: Lemon Sorbet with Saffron With Lefebvre's highly sensual approach to every culinary endeavor, Crave invites us to make home cooking a rich and rewarding experience.