Tyler's Ultimate: Brilliant Simple Food to Make Any Time
by Tyler Florence
from Clarkson Potter

Editorial Review:

As his millions of fans know from watching him on Food Network, Tyler likes to rock the kitchen with big, bold flavors and sophisticated yet accessible fare. Whether you're dishing up a family favorite like spaghetti and meatballs or pulling out all the stops with a succulent tenderloin steak topped with spicy crab salad, Tyler Florence believes every meal can-and should-be the ultimate dining experience. At last, in Tyler's Ultimate, he shows us how to get these spectacular results in much less time.
Tyler believes the ultimate meal brings together good food, good friends, and good times-with Tyler's Ultimate as your guide you can elevate any gathering to a cause for celebration and every family meal to an occasion worth savoring. In his travels around the world for his Food Network show, he's sampled countless versions of classic dishes, taking an ideal technique from one, a perfect ingredient from another. Here he gives you the best of the best.
Make no mistake: Tyler's approach here may be simplified and the ingredients list streamlined, but your palate will never feel compromised. These recipes are packed with zesty flavors, yet easy to pull together and always straightforward enough for even novice cooks. Because Tyler believes that the little details separate a good meal from a "wow!" experience, his recipes feature bright, exciting flavors that sing on the tongue yet don't require fancy equipment or exotic ingredients. Tyler has collected all his most trusted and best-loved recipes for the ultimate collection of go-to meals, including can't-miss versions of the dishes we all crave most: the ultimate burger, French onion soup, beef stew, macaroni and cheese, and chocolate mousse, plus exciting new discoveries that will find a permanent home in your cooking repertoire.
Filled with recipes for sensational, all-American food, Tyler's Ultimate is the all-around, everyday great cookbook his fans have been waiting for.

TV chef Tyler Florence brings a direct, regular-guy charm to cooking that is equally straightforward, simple and good. In Tyler's Ultimate, he offers 100-plus recipes for just this kind of food---"ultimate" versions of dishes like onion soup, crab cakes and spaghetti carbonara, as well as more innovative fare like Chicken Paillard with Fresh Fig Salad and Blue Cheese, Grilled Leg of Lamb with Lemon Chickpea Puree and Greens, and Coconut Shrimp with Basmati Rice, Apricots, and Lime. His desserts, all tempting, include the likes of Chocolate Banana Bread, and Almond Semifreddo with Spiced Honey Dried Fruit. Many of the dishes in this concise collection reflect a thoughtful winnowing of ingredients and technique to produce food that is not only delicious, but can be prepared on a regular basis. Some of Florence's inventions---like Watermelon Gazpacho with Chile and Feta Cheese, which is entirely accomplished in a blender---are ingenious. Photo-illustrated throughout, "Ultimate" is for cooks who want their kitchen work to be as easy as possible, but who also require good cooking---dishes that capture fully their flavor potential. --Arthur Boehm

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• "Ultimate" is indeed Ultimate
  As a fan of his Food Network show I was excited to get the cookbook. We tried three of the recipes from this cookbook for Christmas Eve and they were outstanding. He truly can call these recipes "ultimate". The recipes are easy to follow and produce wonderful dishes full of flavor, multi-layered, very interesting. Give it a try!

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  This is a gift, therefore I do not have a review on this book. The transaction went very smoothly.

• Good Stuff
  I don't know if they're the ultimate but Tyler's recipes certainly are easy and delicious. I noticed other reviews don't like his "guy" language but I think it gives things a different vibe. I'm a cookbook collector and this is one I use often.

• Very pleased with my purchase. Husband really loved as gift.
  Big fan of Tyler and the book was all that we hoped it would be. Would highly recommend to anyone who needs a good cook book.