The food at Armstrong's Table 8 is so diverse and interesting that it makes better sense to serve many small portions than only one or two large ones. This is a most useful cookbook with lots of practical advice for use in the home kitchen. It is marred by some mindless editor's insistence that cutesy words, made with the number 8, be inserted throughout, e.g. innov8, pl8, celebr8, cre8 and l8 night. Despite this annoyance, there are enough novel ideas shared in this text to make it a worthy add More...

I checked this out from the library and was disappointed once I saw the recipes. The idea is that you make a few of these little plates for dinner. On a weeknight, these recipes are complicated enough that I would only have time for maybe one of the dishes. It's visually gorgeous but not realistic for my lifestyle.

(Big quibble for me: the author cooks at a restaurant in California called Table 8. So he has incorporated the number 8 into title headings: "Innov8" and " More...