Awards

• Winner of James Beard Foundation Book Awards (General/Professional) 2004

Overview

Chef and proprietor of one of New York's most successful restaurants, Manhattan's Union Pacific, Rocco DiSpirito has taken the world of cookery by storm, with appearances on everything from David Letterman and Good Morning America to the Food Network. Now he shows fans and new readers alike how to create bold, intriguingly delicious food through combinations of ingredients both mundane and exotic, using the four flavours (sour, sweet, bitter and salty) as basic building blocks, making for a sophisticated but easy to replicate cuisine. Illustrated in full-colour.

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Rocco DiSpirito, chef and proprietor of Manhattan's Union Pacific and Rocco's restaurants, attended the Culinary Institute of America at age sixteen, then studied at the Jardin de Cygne in Paris. He has worked at the Adrienne in New York, and was chef de partie at Aujourd'hui in Boston. Eventually, Rocco joined Lespinasse's opening team. In 1997, DiSpirito opened Union Pacific, where the ""poetry and complexity"" of his dishes earned three stars from the New York Times. He stars in Melting Pot Mediterranean on the Food Network, starred in the NBC series The Restaurant, is a regular guest on the Today show, and has appeared on many other TV shows, including Good Morning America, Live with Regis and Kelly, The View, and The Late Show with David Letterman. He lives in New York City. Kris Sherer has written articles on food, restaurants, and agriculture for various publications and websites and is the former administrative assistant to DiSpirito. Kris attended L'Ecole des Arts Culinaires et de l'Hotellerie in Lyon, France. She lives in Rhinebeck, New York.""

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