Big Johns Books for Cooks

Thomas Keller Ad Hoc at Home

pub date: Nov 2009

368 pgs

List price $50.00

Unlike other cookbooks from Thomas Keller:

The French Laundry Cookbook 2009

Under Pressure: cooking sous vide 2008

Bouchon 2004

Which read and feature recipes like they are written for professional chefs.

Ad Hoc at Home is written for foodies, with recipes for...professional chefs!

The book is already a classic, it is beautiful (and heavy!) with lush food romantic

photographs. The recipes are casual but elegant to be served at home. With

company surely, not many foodies would prepare the complex and time consuming

recipes for a Tuesday night dinner. These are recipes for a Sunday Dinner with

family and friends or a meal served on holidays or special occasions.

Ad Hoc the restaurant serves family style mealsthat Keller enjoyed as a boy. However,

Keller adds his own flair to the meals that makethen serveable in a fine restaurant.

These are the recipes that are really served at Ad Hoc. Feel up for a challenge?

This book, while in it's first edition has had many printings as it flys off the shelf. It

is a NY Times best seller. The book is less than 5 months old from it's original printing

but is already very hard to find a 1st edition/ 1st printing for less than $100.00

($200.00 signed), list price is $50.00.

If you can find a 1st/1st in as new condition I think you should grab it, the book is already an instant classic and should only go up in value.

Happy Hunting,

Big John