The Family Meal: Home Cooking with Ferran Adria

by Adria, Ferran (Author), Cillero, Enrique (Translator)

The Family Meal contains 31 menus and 93 recipes for the simple, tasty dishes that the elBulli staff eat for dinner. Includes step-by-step instructions showing cooks how to make everyday classics, featuring quick and cost-effective menus to cook for two, six, 20, or 75 people.

Format: Hardcover, 383 pages

Publisher: Phaidon Press, October 2011

Product Dimensions: 11.5 L × 8.1 W × 1.3 H

Publisher Marketing: The Family Meal is the first home cooking cookbook by the world's greatest chef, Ferran Adria. It features nearly 100 delicious recipes by Ferran Adria that anyone can prepare, inspired by the dishes eaten every day by the staff at his legendary restaurant El Bulli, awarded World's Best Restaurant five times.

The recipes in The Family Meal are easy-to-prepare and meant for family dining at home. From Roast Chicken with Potato Straws, Sea Bass Baked in Salt and Mexican-style Slow-Cooked Pork to White Chocolate Cake and Baked Apples with Whipped Cream, there is a wide selection of everyday classics for every night of the week. The cookbook is also the first by such a renowned chef to ensure that the dishes are affordable and the ingredients are widely available at the local supermarket.

The Family Meal is organized into three-course menus, with appetizers, mains and desserts, so you can prepare a well-balanced meal at home ? without fuss. Each recipe is shown with numerous step-by-step full-color photographs, and conversions on how you can prepare a meal for a small or large group - for 2, 6, 20 or 75 people.

This is the cookbook by Ferran Adria everyone has been waiting for, it is sure to be one of the most talked about and popular cookbooks of the season.

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