This is the debut cookbook from Gabriel Rucker, named as a James Beard rising star. Le Pigeon: Cooking At The Dirty Bird ($30) features a serious but at the same time playful collection of more than 125 recipes from Rucker’s phenomenally successful restaurant in Portland. Dining at Le Pigeon is a culinary experience like no other as it celebrates both end of the cooking spectrum. Buffalo hot wings are taken to a whole new level thanks to sweetbread, simple potato salads become dirty with the inclusion of chicken livers and on the drinks menu you will find $3 Coors rubbing shoulders with premier cru Burgundies. This is the book that charts the rise of Gabriel Rucker to the very top of the food scene in Portland, and what a journey it is.
No great surprise that this is from the same people who brought us Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, this a great new tale that combines, romance, heartbreak and some tentacled mayhem thrown in for good measure. The classic Jane Austen novel is expanded to include new scenes with rampaging octopus’, giant lobsters, two-headed sea serpents […]