Hello,
What would you recommend for an ambitious at home cook who has cooked out of Julia Child's book and Thomas Keller's Ad Hoc? Currently I'm back and forth between Eleven Madison Park and The French Laundry. I took them out of the library and enjoy both, but I'm back and forth. I still need to learn a good amount of technique and I feel The French Laundry has helpful information in it, but at the same time I'm pretty good at figuring things out so I'm wondering if the creativity of Eleven Madison Park might be more beneficial. I'm also asking you guys as you all probably have more experience with these books then the 4 days I've had them out of the library.
Any comparative opinions of these two books? And I realize they each have their own narrative, but I don't care as much about that as that is the one thing I will be taking away from them while I have them checked out from the library. From a cooking and education/development perspective, any strong opinions?
Thank you!
What would you recommend for an ambitious at home cook who has cooked out of Julia Child's book and Thomas Keller's Ad Hoc? Currently I'm back and forth between Eleven Madison Park and The French Laundry. I took them out of the library and enjoy both, but I'm back and forth. I still need to learn a good amount of technique and I feel The French Laundry has helpful information in it, but at the same time I'm pretty good at figuring things out so I'm wondering if the creativity of Eleven Madison Park might be more beneficial. I'm also asking you guys as you all probably have more experience with these books then the 4 days I've had them out of the library.
Any comparative opinions of these two books? And I realize they each have their own narrative, but I don't care as much about that as that is the one thing I will be taking away from them while I have them checked out from the library. From a cooking and education/development perspective, any strong opinions?
Thank you!
