Twelve Recipes
Twelve Recipes by Cal Peternell is an illustrated cookbook published by HarperCollins on October 21, 2014. This book serves as a comprehensive kitchen manual, offering essential recipes and techniques designed to empower home cooks. Peternell, the chef of San Francisco’s renowned Chez Panisse, shares his insights and experiences, focusing on core foods and dishes that form the foundation of a successful cooking repertoire.
Readers will find a structured approach to cooking that builds skills progressively, covering everything from basic items like toast and eggs to more complex dishes such as pasta and cake. Each recipe is accompanied by tips on necessary ingredients and tools, along with variations to enhance culinary understanding. The book combines practical cooking methods with personal anecdotes, creating a narrative that connects food with everyday life. With its vibrant photographs and illustrations, Twelve Recipes is not just a cookbook but a warm invitation to explore the joys of cooking.
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Winner of the 2015 International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) Cookbook Award
Forewords by Alice Waters and Michael Pollan
In this dazzling, full color cookbook and kitchen manual filled with lush photographs and beautiful drawings, the chef of Alice Waters’ Chez Panisse offers basic techniques and essential recipes that will transform anyone into a confident home cook.
When his oldest son was leaving for college, Cal Peternell, the chef of San Francisco’s legendary Chez Panisse, realized that, although he regularly made dinners for his family, he’d never taught them the basics of cooking. Based on the life-altering course of instruction he prepared and honed through many phone calls with his son, Twelve Recipes is the ultimate introduction to the kitchen. Peternell focuses on the core foods and dishes that comprise a successful home cook’s arsenal, each building skill upon skill—from toast, eggs, and beans, to vinaigrettes, pasta with tomato, and rice, to vegetables, soup, meats, and cake.
Twelve Recipes will help home cooks develop a core repertoire of skills and increase their culinary confidence. Peternell tells you what basic ingredients and tools you need for a particular recipe, and then adds variations to expand your understanding. Each tip, instruction, and recipe connects with others to weave into a larger story that illuminates the connection between food and life. A deeply personal book, it was written by the chef alone and it glows with warmth and humor as he mulls over such mundane items as toast and rice to offer surprising new insights about foods that only seem exceedingly ordinary. It’s a book you’re as likely to keep by your bedside as your stovetop. With Peternell as your guide, the journey is pure pleasure and the destination is delicious.
Twelve Recipes features gorgeous color photos and inset illustrations by Peternell’s wife and sons (all artists), and forewords by celebrated chef Alice Waters and New York Times columnist and bestselling author Michael Pollan.
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