A collection of Rockenwagner's inventive German cooking with a California flair, featuring recipes from his popular California restaurants and bakeries. This cookbook is filled with fantastic versions of the chefs singular California-European cooking that made his beloved restaurants and cafes so famous (LA Weekly). One of Eater Nationals Most Anticipated Cookbooks of 2014 One of Tasting Tables Best Upcoming Cookbooks One of CNN Underscored's Best Cookbooks for Traveling the World From Your KitchenThis modern German-Californian cookbook from longtime Los Angeles chef and restaurateur Hans Röckenwagner features sections on bread-making (yes, pretzel bread!), holiday treats, and bar snacks, along with the most popular recipes from his several Los Angeles restaurants, including 3 Square Cafe on famed Abbot Kinney Boulevard and Cafe Röckenwagner in Brentwood. From fresh, light salads inspired by the Santa Monica Farmers Market, where Röckenwagner shops weekly, to such hearty German classics as spätzle and schnitzel, to the breads and baked goods for which he is renowned, Das Cookbook shares all of Röckenwagners best recipes, all created, tested, and perfected for the home cook.
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Product Details
Dimensions: 203 x 276mm
Publication Date: 27 Nov 2014
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9798887980690
About Hans Rckenwagner
Hans Röckenwagner's background spans thirty years of cooking in Germany Switzerland Chicago and Los Angeles. In the 1980s he won international fame for his fine-dining restaurant in Santa Monica Röckenwagner; today he owns several LA-area bakery/cafes and a large wholesale bakery. Hans is known for his individuality innovative dishes and his craftsmanship in designing and building his restaurants (he is also a master woodworker). This is his second cookbook. Jenn Garbee is a food reporter and editor who has written for the Los Angeles Times LA Weekly Cooking Light Saveur and more. An expert recipe tester and developer Jenn has a culinary degree from Le Cordon Bleu and has worked in professional kitchens across Los Angeles. She is also the author of Secret Suppers and the co-author of the 2015 St. Martin's Press book Tomatomania! Wolfgang Gussmack has been Hans's chef de cuisine since 2012. A native of Graz Austria Wolfgang started his culinary career cooking spätzle for his family's restaurant and gasthaus. This experience earned him a spot in Austria's only two-star Michelin restaurant and subsequently led him to renowned kitchens in Italy and France before he came to Los Angeles. Photographer Staci Valentine is based in Los Angeles; her other cookbooks include The Perfect Peach.