Product Description

This year marks the tenth anniversary of Tribeca Grill, one of the best neighborhood restaurants in New York City. Acclaimed chef Don Pintabona shares his dazzling creations in this wonderful new book.

The Tribeca Grill Cookbook celebrates this anniversary milestone with exciting food and flavors from around the world. To complete this collection, Tribeca Grill partners Robert De Niro and Drew Nieporent have provided a Preface and a Foreword, which are accompanied by a peppering of celebrity anecdotes throughout the book.

Filled with more than 120 enticing recipes and dozens of full-color photographs, this cookbook is straightforward, with lots of new twists on old classics. Recipes include Lobster and Mango Tartlets, Crisp Fried Oysters with Asian Vegetable Slaw, Molasses-Cured Pork Loin with Boston Baked Beans, and Tribeca Film Center Peanut Butter Parfait. You'll also find suggestions throughout for the perfect wine for hors d'oeuvres, appetizers, salads, pastas, and entrées.

The Tribeca Grill Cookbook is sure to be a neighborhood classic for your kitchen and the ultimate taste of Tribeca for your table.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1305118 in Books
• Published on: 2000-10-31
• Released on: 2000-10-31
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 2.00 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 272 pages

From Amazon.com
The Tribeca Grill, famously backed by Robert De Niro and Bill Murray, is a Manhattan treasure. Since its birth in 1990, chef Don Pintabona has produced stylish, savory fare that's considered among the city's most attractive. The Tribeca Grill Cookbook presents 125 of Pintabona's most enticing recipes, including many Grill classics such as Tomato-Basil Crostini with Shaved Parmesan, Cilantro, and Sake-Grilled Chicken, and the much-loved Tribeca Chocolate Torte. In chapters that cover a wide range of courses and dish types, including soups, sandwiches, brunches, and risottos, the book offers approachable, painstakingly written formulas. Though some of these, and particularly those for desserts, demand a cooking commitment, many are unfussy, and dishes such as Brook Trout with Pecans, Lemon, and Parsley Brown Butter, and Molasses-Cured Pork Loin with Boston Baked Beans are as simple to make as they are easy to enjoy. With a chapter on wine selection and dozens of color photos, the book should bring the Grill's relaxed spirit and good cooking home to all. --Arthur Boehm

From Publishers Weekly
In his first cookbook, chef Pintabona celebrates a decade spent in the kitchen of Tribeca Grill, the stylish New York City restaurant owned by restaurateur Drew Nieporent and celebrity investors such as Robert De Niro, Bill Murray and Mikhail Baryshnikov. A Culinary Institute of America graduate, Pintabona creates lauded "contemporary American" cooking that draws upon diverse influences: his Sicilian heritage, a stint in France with the legendary Georges Blanc, and his extensive travels throughout Asia. The home cook-friendly recipes are appealingly familiar, yet globally inspired, starring Lemon Thyme Chicken Salad with Beefsteak Tomatoes, Spicy Chickpea and Tomato Soup, and Morel and Foie Gras Bread Pudding. Pintabona also doles out friendly advice (Farfalle with Duck, Wild Mushrooms and Rosemary Cream Sauce "wows guests on a chilly fall evening"), preparation tips, wine suggestions and celebrity triviaAreaders learn, for example, that Mushroom Palmiers were a vegetarian hors d'oeuvre served at Madonna's Truth or Dare premiere party. Accessible, creative and well-conceived, Pintabona's recipes offer readers a chance to eat like the starsAeven if they'll never dine with them at Tribeca Grill. Placed on bookshelves devoted to New York City, this selection will especially pique the interest of Gotham's celebrity-gazers. (Nov.)
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review
"I have known Don Pintabona for many years--I've even worked with him!--and I am very proud of his achievements over the past decade at the Tribeca Grill. This book not only illustrates Don's passion for what he does, but also provides the home cook with a compilation of wonderful recipes to try." --Daniel Boulud

"What marvelous documentation of a wonderful chef's career. I've waited more than fifteen years for Don Pintabona to write it all down--this is definitely a cookbook for my permanent shelf."--Charlie Palmer

"Don Pintabona is a uniquely warm, caring, and passionate person; he has figured out a way to put his personality into all of his great dishes. It is this mixture of home and haute that makes eating at Tribeca Grill such a wonderful experience." --David Burke

"As a chef for over forty years, I have seen young cooks come and go through my kitchen. Don Pintabona was one of the most able cooks and had an interesting energy for his work. I never doubted his success." --Georges Blanc