Renowned Chef Enzo Fargione - Pens Cookbook, but not your ordinary cookbook ‘Visual Eats’
In Visual Eats: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Modern Italian Cooking, Chef Enzo shows food aficionados and home cooks that they can create the same elaborate dishes that are served in high-end restaurants for their own guests. With beautiful photos and step-by-step instructions, Visual Eats carefully lays out the steps to prepare these professional dishes at home. Hosts who want to amaze their guests can even create dishes like Eggplant Popsicles, Ham and Peas in a Toothpaste Tube, and Enzo’s signature dish, Four-Minute Smoked Branzino Carpaccio in a Cigar Box, which emits a puff of smoke when opened by surprised diners.
Amidst these crowd-pleasing recipes, Chef Enzo sprinkles in stories from his home in Turin, Italy where he grew up in a traditional Italian home surrounded by family and lots of food. He also shares the history of Italian foods and how they came to be so popular here in the U.S. -- and Enzo sheds some insight into the camaraderie and competition among world-famous, professional chefs who are his friends. Visual Eats is a new kind of cookbook for today’s educated foodie.
Award-winning Chef Enzo is well-known as an innovative food craftsman who creates state-of-the-art dishes that amaze diners nightly in his Washington, D.C. restaurant, Elisir.
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Seth Tibbott – Founder, Tofurky - Meat-Free Option for Thanksgiving
The iconic (in health food circles) vegetarian brand Tofurky, based in Hood River, Oregon, founded some 20 years ago by Seth Tibbott and still family-owned, even though so many of Seth's competitors have been acquired by big food companies over the years. A passionate animal rights advocate whose brand first attained fame via an answer on "Jeopardy," of all things, and which initially gained traction as a meat-free option during the Thanksgiving season, Tofurky today continues growing by double digits annually, offers lines of pizza, deli slices and the world's first vegan quiche, among many other products, and soon will relocate to what is only the second LEEDS (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified Platinum food manufacturing plant in the country.
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