From the culinary genius Peter Gilmore, one of the top 50 chefs in the world, comes this much anticipated book. Quay's stunning design and photography perfectly echoes Peter's nature-based philosophy and the organic presentation that is synonymous with the fine dining experience at Quay. Peter's recipes, including the irresistible eight-textured chocolate cake and his signature guava snow egg, will take you on an inspirational adventure, exploring flavour, texture and technique. Start with a single component, build to a show-stopping dish, or simply enjoy the visual and culinary journey. Key points: signature recipes from Quay, named Restaurant of the Year in The Australian Gourmet Traveller and the Sydney Morning Herald's Good Food Guide for the third time in 2013; recipes are broken into approachable individual components making them easier to recreate in a home setting
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Peter Gilmore has been the executive chef of Quay restaurant since August 2001 and in that time has elevated the restaurant to 29th on The World s 50 Best Restaurants list. In 2012 Peter was awarded Chef of the Year in The Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide and his creative and original food has brought international accolades for Quay. His unique philosophy is 'food inspired by nature' and he encapsulates this in his picture perfect dishes that celebrate nature's beauty and diversity.
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By Danny Marbella
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Having received this great publication for a Christmas present in 2010 it has taken me nearly a full year to really understand this highly complex book....
It is fantastic but any amature chef really will struggle with this book.
It is very hard work, please read on and I will try to explain a little...
This celebration of nature may prove a little tricky for cooks who want to follow recipes in Quay to the letter. One salad lists more than 40 separate ingredients, while another calls for four different kinds of violets. Gilmore refused to cut corners for the book, but by the same token he says a bit of flexibility is key when it comes to choosing how to cook from it. "There's a dish of white asparagus with a curd and nuts and something like 15 different herbs and buds on it, but it'll still be really nice with just the curd and the nuts and two or three normal herbs." If you can't get strawberry guavas for the snow egg, you could try using white peaches. "It's meant to be inspiration as much as anything else."
The book gives alternatives for home kitchens not equipped with restaurant kit such as combi-ovens and sous-vide machines, but by and large, it pulls no punches. If you want to follow things to the letter, start stocking up on your borage buds and digging through seed catalogues for miniature sour Mexican cucumbers now. Peter Gilmore wants to leave you with this guarantee. "If someone is going to take the time to make the Quay chocolate cake, I want it to taste like the Quay chocolate cake, even if it takes them four hours to make it." He stops and thinks a moment. "Okay, it'll take eight hours. But it will taste like the Quay chocolate cake."
I must admit it has been worth the effort, trust me....
It is fantastic but any amature chef really will struggle with this book.
It is very hard work, please read on and I will try to explain a little...
This celebration of nature may prove a little tricky for cooks who want to follow recipes in Quay to the letter. One salad lists more than 40 separate ingredients, while another calls for four different kinds of violets. Gilmore refused to cut corners for the book, but by the same token he says a bit of flexibility is key when it comes to choosing how to cook from it. "There's a dish of white asparagus with a curd and nuts and something like 15 different herbs and buds on it, but it'll still be really nice with just the curd and the nuts and two or three normal herbs." If you can't get strawberry guavas for the snow egg, you could try using white peaches. "It's meant to be inspiration as much as anything else."
The book gives alternatives for home kitchens not equipped with restaurant kit such as combi-ovens and sous-vide machines, but by and large, it pulls no punches. If you want to follow things to the letter, start stocking up on your borage buds and digging through seed catalogues for miniature sour Mexican cucumbers now. Peter Gilmore wants to leave you with this guarantee. "If someone is going to take the time to make the Quay chocolate cake, I want it to taste like the Quay chocolate cake, even if it takes them four hours to make it." He stops and thinks a moment. "Okay, it'll take eight hours. But it will taste like the Quay chocolate cake."
I must admit it has been worth the effort, trust me....
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By Minder
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is a beautifully crafted recipe book with stunning photography. A word of caution before committing to a purchase - this is a cookbook from the best restuarant in Australia. Quay is also listed in the San Pellegrino Top 50 Restuarants in the World (at #26 in 2011). In addition, the style of cooking that best describes Peter Gilmore's menus is nature based cuisine. This puts Peter Gilmore's work in a similar vein to Michel Bras and Rene Redzepi. With all that in mind, don't expect the recipes to be accessible. If cooking were that simple, I'd have a Michelin Star. Instead, buy this book to be inspired by the work of a chef who is at the top of his game.
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
More of a collector's gem than an actual cook book, as most of the recipes are very difficult, and a lot of the ingredients impossible to get. But beautiful and inspirational.
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I was lucky enough to have aquired both this and the noma cookbook recently and I can comfortably say that Quay beats it hands down in terms of what I'm looking for in a cookbook. Read more
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