Cooking Like a Master Chef: 100 Recipes to Make the Everyday Extraordinary Hardcover – October 27, 2015

I have been watching masterchef for a long long time, loving every episode of it, and I truly admire the personality of chef Graham Elliot.One year ago, the second time when I went to Chicago, I visited graham elliot bistro by myself and ate so so much that almost cost me 100 bucks(lol). Food there was truly amazing. The best dish I can remember is called Milk & Honey which might be one of the best and most interesting dishes I have ever tasted in my life.I'm currently a college student and living by myself. College life is not easy and sometimes really stresses me out. Cooking to me is a way to release all the stress and to give myself a nice treat. I feel really relaxed when I grab the knives and cook some beautiful food.This book is loaded with useful contents and gorgeous photos and I love those stories about Graham himself. They are truly inspirational! The recipes in the book are creative yet practical and can be easily applied into the daily life.Thanks for this awesome cookbook and hope the best to chef Graham and his gorgeous family.

purchased as a gift for my husband who loves the Master Chef show and enjoyed watching Graham. Graham's book is down to earth and his recipes are for food that I would eat everyday at home, it isn't too complicated and the recipe ingredients are readily available in my local stores.The glimpses into his personal life and learning more about ways to make food taste best!The book has beautiful pictures and easy to follow recipes for the novice and master home chef!

Thank You Graham Elliot! I had the pleasure of meeting Chef Elliot on The First MasterChef Cruise a Couple of years ago. I am an avid cook with a very extensive Cookbook Library. I am alway in search of a Cookbook that I can tell everyone about , and try recipes that I find Exciting.This Cookbook hits the Ball Out Of the Park. I am going to make, and try to perfect every single recipe in this book. I haven't seen o Recipes that have Excited me this Much in Years.

I've gone though this book several times and found some tremendous recipes. I've only tried one so far (The "Spiced" Rice Krispy Treats), which was quite yummy. The recipes are elevated, but most are not so "fru-fru" that the average home cook like myself can't make these (unlike Gordon Ramsey's cook books).Yes, there are some foods that you'll never be able to make (like the truffle flavored popcorn), but I appreciate the ideas these recipes represent. And even if I never make some of them, most contain enough elements that you could easily incorporate into other dishes you might make.Overall, a beautiful and easy to follow book. My only complaint would be that there are a couple recipes that have no corresponding photos. Which is a shame, because I think you always eat with your eyes first, and personally speaking, I'm not going to go out of my way to make a recipe if I have no idea what it might look like. But other than that, this is a great book that will give you many great recipes and ideas. I can't wait to try more.

This is a great book, by my favorite Chef, Graham Elliot of Master Chef. It has some great stories of his life and family and the best recipes I've seen in some time. I love almost all of the recipes, snacks too! I highly recommend this cookbook, for the great cooks and those who just like to cook. The variety of recipes and ides Graham has, makes this book SPECIAL. You should order your book today!!

Love everything about this book except for how it showed up. The pages are easy to read and flip through. Everything is explained as it should be. Great pictures. Book showed up dog-eared @ all 4 corners. While that doesn't affect the performance of the book, one expects a brand new, undamaged item upon purchase. The packaging needs to be bulked up.

Amazing!

I live in a small town and have no access to many of the ingredients unless I order it off the internet. Farro? Forbidden Rice? Sambal? The list of exotic, ridiculously expensive (lobster corn dogs??) or impossible to find ingredients goes on and on.Seriously - I have Wally World or a middle America chain grocery store. The nearest larger town is 2 hours away, has a population of 100,000 people, and still would not have this stuff!I love Graham Elliot as a tv personality, and I am sure he is an amazing chef, but I can't relate to this cookbook. I bet most of these recipes are delicious, but they just aren't what I expected. He seems so down-to-earth on tv and I guess I expected recipes for home cooks with good tastebuds. Instead I got a cookbook for rich home cooks who live in big cities with lots of international grocery options. The best part of the cookbook was the introduction with his story. He is a very likable guy!I did make the olive oil crackers (had to use all purpose flour for all of it since I couldn't find 00 flour). They were just ok. The potato gnocchi with shaved pecorino and brown butter were amazing! Except I couldn't find pecorino (used Romano). Also delicious was the brussels sprout hash with apples, smoked bacon and walnuts (I could actually get all those ingredients!), the carrot cake and the creme brulee.The recipes that I was able to try were good...they were just vastly outnumbered by recipes with "impossible for me to get" ingredients.