Product Description

With 500 recipes for dishes ranging from Oven Roasted Asparagus to Rhubarb Gratin, Rozanne Gold provides the most complete guide to quick and flavorful cooking ever published. The book contains clear, concise instructions and is organized by category (vegetables, fish, meats, salads etc.) and arranged by ingredient within each chapter, making the book accessible. Special sections on party food and hors d'oeuvres, drinks, and menus make this book perfect for the entertaining market as well.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #397545 in Books
• Published on: 2003-10-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 336 pages

From Publishers Weekly
In her latest installment of the 1-2-3 cooking series, Gold, columnist for Bon Appétit, shares her simple yet effective recipes for cooking delicious cuisine without the bother of having to amass a plethora of ingredients. Although she insists that every cook must have a supply of basic food items in her pantry such as puff pastry and lemon olive oil, Gold believes that a sumptuous meal does not need, and may even be spoiled by what she calls "ingredient overload." For Gold, "the realization that a minimum of ingredients could maximize taste by allowing pure flavors to shine" led her to create dishes like Maple Glazed Salmon Steaks and Heirloom Tomato Salad with Lemony Tahina. Appetizers, entrées and desserts can all be prepared according to her three-ingredient rule, and the large selection of salads, soups, fish, pasta, poultry, meat, and cakes will satisfy readers.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author
Rozanne Gold is one of today's most influential food writers and chefs. As the award-winning author of eight cookbooks and Bon Appetit's "Entertaining Made Easy" columnist, the acclaimed "diva of simplicity" has taught a generation of home cooks and professional chefs to keep it simple. Gold is a five-time nominee and three-time winner of the James Beard Award and winner of the 2001 IACP award for Healthy 1-2-3. Gold was first chef to New York mayor Ed Koch and is currently chef-director of the Joseph Baum & Michael Whiteman Company, best known for re-creating New York's magical Rainbow Room and the former Windows on the World. Gold, who has cooked for presidents and prime ministers, continues to create menus and food concepts for restaurants around the world.

Customer Reviews

just what I expected
I ordered a copy of this book from The Good Cook cook book club. The description sounded really intriguing--only 3 ingredients for each recipe (not including salt, pepper, and water). What a beautifully simple idea! The book is gorgeous, and the recipes sound very fresh and tasty. Can't wait to try them. As a seasoned cook who is also a busy person and has to cook on the fly, I can tell that this is a well-thought-through and elegant approach to cooking--just my cup of tea--using fresh and wholesome recipes rendered very creatively.

1-2-3 is not a-b-c, but it is fabulous!
Do not be fooled into thinking that because every one of these 500 recipes has only 3 ingredients, (excluding salt, pepper and water) that the recipes are quick and easy. Some are. What could be simpler than mixing mayo and wasabi, spreading it onto salmon fillets and shoving it in the oven for 10 minutes? However, the 18-hour slow-cooked pork, while very easy, needs 6 hours absorbing its spices, and 18 hours in a very slow oven. Not quick. And the pears Belle Helene need you to poach some pears, make sorbet with the others, stuff the pears with sorbet and top the lot with chocolate. Neither quick nor all that easy. Nor does the book reduce pantry space with its reduced ingredients; you'll want to stock up with garlic oil and hunt down pomegranate molasses, for example.
What the book does well is give you a feel for how ingredients work in a dish. Once you've sautéed asparagus in sesame oil, you'll never look back. If you're a beginner cook, you may find the book less useful, as it assumes you have basic cooking techniques. If you're an innovative and enthusiastic cook, you'll be poring over it for hours and producing some rather spectacular results.

Cooking 1-2-3
I use this book many times each week. It is easily the best book in my busy household. The recipes are easy to follow and they give me a sense of accomplishment when I produce something so delicious. I am going to get all her other books. Home made meals really are the best!