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New Tastes from Texas
A revised, beautiful, full-color companion book to Stephan Pyles's "New Taste from Texas" series on public television, updated with 40 additional recipes from the second season of 13 new programs.
191 pages, Paperback
First published July 28, 1998
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January 17, 2009
I'm a Texan, and love the type of food Stephan is famous for. I lived at Blue Mesa, Chuy's, and other Texan institutions when I lived there. HOWEVER-- that is when the food is served to me in a restaurant.
When you're cooking it, using THIS book, it is an exercise in frustration!!! I was having a Southwestern dinner party, and finally got around to preparing some of the many wonderful sounding recipes in here.
THIS is one of those frustrating cookbooks that can't just give you a full recipe. Each recipe has ingredients that are SEPARATE recipes on their own, and the prep steps for them is often just about as long as the other full length recipe! So that for each recipe, you see things like "cactus puree (see p. 58), masa dough (see p. 62)," in addition to the other ingredients. After enough of these, you get really freaking tired of flipping back and forth and back and forth!
Plus, the Heaven and Hell cake was a big, fat flop. I am a helluva cook, but the cake was a disaster. We began calling it "World Trade Center 7." I sold the cookbook to a Half Price Books not long after. I don't need the hassle. Try again, Stephan. Chefs may love this book. Real people trying to use it will be much less impressed.
When you're cooking it, using THIS book, it is an exercise in frustration!!! I was having a Southwestern dinner party, and finally got around to preparing some of the many wonderful sounding recipes in here.
THIS is one of those frustrating cookbooks that can't just give you a full recipe. Each recipe has ingredients that are SEPARATE recipes on their own, and the prep steps for them is often just about as long as the other full length recipe! So that for each recipe, you see things like "cactus puree (see p. 58), masa dough (see p. 62)," in addition to the other ingredients. After enough of these, you get really freaking tired of flipping back and forth and back and forth!
Plus, the Heaven and Hell cake was a big, fat flop. I am a helluva cook, but the cake was a disaster. We began calling it "World Trade Center 7." I sold the cookbook to a Half Price Books not long after. I don't need the hassle. Try again, Stephan. Chefs may love this book. Real people trying to use it will be much less impressed.
November 3, 2012
It seems that Mr. Pyles took the influences of Texan food and tried to make it gourmet. Though I might enjoy eating some of these dishes in a restaurant, they're too expensive and time consuming to consider making at home.
March 3, 2009
I love reading cookbooks. Lots of great ideas, some are above my head... I just don't see myself cooking lamb in the near future.
February 16, 2016
Wonderful, seemingly flavorful, mouth-watering.... This boy should be cooking for me!
Great photos, clear directions, but a tad bit more time consuming that I'm willing to spend cooking.....
Great photos, clear directions, but a tad bit more time consuming that I'm willing to spend cooking.....
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