大廚在滿足你的點單前，先填飽了誰的胃？
《Family Table》讓你不出門就能學到知名主廚的後場秘技！
每天餐廳開門營業之前，廚師經常要輪流幫同仁準備員工餐。這些餐點做法通常很簡單，必須就著當日食材即興演出，最麻煩的就是得同時滿足每位廚師挑剔的舌尖。
本書作者之一，也是在餐廳擔任廚藝指導的Michael Romano衡量諸多條件，從眾家知名食肆裡的員工餐中挑選出最適合在家烹煮的餐點，例如Mama Romanos義式千層麵、泰式牛肉；小蕃茄烤比目魚等。每道食譜皆佐以餐廳無名英雄故事和這些創意料理的誕生過程。豐富的內容，不僅讓人讚嘆食物的美妙，同時還能感受在家開伙的快樂，一窺餐廳後場的趣味人生。
歡迎加入《Family Table》，盡情享受從餐廳到家庭的美食無接縫體驗！（文／博客來編譯）
Some of the Best Food You’ll Never Eat in a Restaurant
Danny Meyer’s restaurants are among the most acclaimed and beloved in the nation: Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern, Maialino, Blue Smoke, The Modern, and more, winners of an unprecedented number of James Beard Awards for outstanding food and hospitality. Family Table takes you behind the scenes of these restaurants to share the food that the chefs make for one another before they cook for you.
Each day, before the lunch and dinner services, the staff sits down to a “family meal.” It is simple, often improvised, but special enough to please the chefs’ discerning palates. Now, for the first time, the restaurants’ culinary director, Michael Romano, coauthor of the award-winning Union Square Cafe Cookbook, collects and refines his favorite in-house dishes for the home cook, served alongside Karen Stabiner’s stories about the restaurants’ often-unsung heroes, and about how this imaginative array of dishes came to be. Their collaboration celebrates food, the family itself, and the restaurants’ rich backstage life.
Some of the recipes are global and regional specialties: Mama Romano’s Lasagna, Dominican Chicken, Thai Beef, Layered Huevos Rancheros, and Southern Cola-Braised Short Ribs. Many highlight fresh produce, like Michael Anthony’s Corn Soup, Barley & Spring Vegetables with Pesto, Grilled Halibut with Cherry Tomatoes, Sugar Snap Peas & Lemon, and Plum & Apricot Crisp with Almond Cream. There are homey dishes like Turkey & Vegetable Potpie with Biscuit Crust and Streusel-Swirl Coffee Cake, and inventive, contemporary takes, like Cornmeal-Crusted Fish Tacos with Black Bean & Peach Salsa and a delightfully tangy Buttermilk Panna Cotta with Rhubarb-Strawberry Compote. What all these recipes have in common is ease and perfection.
Family Table is an invitation from the restaurant family to you: Please join in.
