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The DotCom Chef
by Andrea Lynn Swengel
What the Great Chef says about The DotCom Chef:
"Finally, thanks to the Internet, even amateur chefs will be able to cook with great ingredients from small producers. This is a big step in home cooking thanks to The DotCom Chef. Good luck to the home cooks!"
Chef André Soltner
Dean of Classic Studies
The French Culinary Institute
New York City
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About The DotCom Chef:
Get great compliments on your cooking when you use these wonderful recipes featuring the freshest and finest ingredients from artisan producers around the world delivered fast and easy, right to your door, with the convenience of the Internet.
Simple, easy-to-fix, flavor-filled dishes created to take advantage of healthy, natural and organic specialty ingredients grown, harvested and prepared by artisans of the food revolution taking place worldwide.
Every recipe features the author’s tested recommendations for great purveyors you can trust. Plus, tips on how to save time and money shopping on the Internet.
Wonderful ingredients that only the celebrated chefs have used are now ‘yours for the clicking.’ Here’s what other Great Chefs say . . .
“You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of the season, those are the moments that define the cook's year. I get more excited by that than anything else.”
“I am committed to using only the finest and freshest products. People have come to expect that, and I will never let them down.”
“You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.”
“The kitchen is a country in which there are always discoveries to be made.”
About the Author:
Andrea Lynn Swengel pursues her passions for food writing, recipe creation and cooking in West Des Moines, Iowa. For many years, she was a test kitchen chef for the Emmy Award-wining television writer and director, John Beyer, who pioneered one of the first celebrity chef TV cooking series: Great Chefs of the World; Great Chefs of New Orleans; Great Chefs of the Southwest; Great Chefs Jazz Brunches; and others (www.greatchefs.com). Beyer’s monumental culinary work showcased the dishes of chefs who would soon reach legendary, worldwide stardom, including Emeril Lagasse, Bobby Flay, Lidia Bastianich, Todd English and many others.
Andrea designs and develops original recipes using little-known ingredients for her own repertoire of dishes and for those of other cooking professionals. She characterizes her signature creations as, “Layers of fresh flavors from layers of fine ingredients.”
The Miracle of Fresh, Artisanal Ingredients is Yours:
Just for you—the curious and passionate cook—The DotCom Chef opens the exciting and limitless world of incredible ingredients, from the smallest artisan producers of little-known Spanish mountain-region cheeses, to the highest quality southern-coastal Italian olive oils, to the amazingly fresh and still-dewy morning harvests from exotic herb growers and suppliers in the U.S.
The world of fresh, organic, hard-to-find, hand-made, small production, specialty foods is exploding and growing. Thousands of purveyors are available to you online ‘at the click of a mouse.’ But knowing which suppliers to use and which products to buy can be daunting for enthusiastic cooks who want to explore and expand their repertoire of favorite dishes. The DotCom Chef eliminates all the mystery . . . all the confusion . . . and gives you sure-thing recipes using sure-thing ingredients from sure-thing purveyors.
A test kitchen chef, recipe developer and Internet searcher for the best possible ingredients, Andrea Lynn Swengel offers you a collection of proven heirloom recipes along with recommendations for top food purveyors she personally orders from, tests and finds to have the very finest, artisan-quality products and outstanding customer service.
Inside are Tips for Shopping for Food on the Internet, including smart ways to save money on shipping costs. Also included is a huge alphabetical listing of ingredients with a convenient guide to all the specialty food purveyors who sell these hard-to-get products on the Internet.
Every recipe gives you recommendations and website addresses for specialty ingredients chosen for each dish. Andrea has selected and recommended Internet food purveyors for you based on customer feedback and her own positive experience shopping for ingredients online. Al the work is done for you . . . all the research has been accomplished . . . just ‘Click and Cook’ and let the compliments flow!
