In his debut cookbook, James Beard Award-winning chef Dan Kluger shares 190 recipes to help home cooks master flavor and technique Dan Kluger, a chef celebrated for his simple yet flavorful food, knows there’s more to mastering cooking than just following directions. So with each of the innovative, elegant recipes in his debut cookbook, he includes a valuable lesson that applies beyond the tasty … beyond the tasty dish. For example, master the art of mixing raw and cooked versions of the same ingredient while preparing a Sugar Snap Pea Salad with Manchego Vinaigrette.
From homemade pantry items to vegetable mains, meats, and grains, this book is not just sophisticated recipes but a master class of lessons for more flexibility and innovation in the kitchen.
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Being fortunate enough to live in Dan Kluger’s neighborhood, Loring Place — a legacy of a kitchen in many ways — I am blessed to have a home away from home. Dan’s food and this book are filled with beauty, simplicity, big flavor, and color. He is the Wizard of Oz to our family and has been our home away from home for some time now. Bring him into your home with this book.
What a joy to behold the flourishing career of Dan Kluger, who has worked so diligently to translate his passion for hospitality into becoming one of the most exciting culinary figures in his field. Dan spent years studying with the best, and now the best wants to cook at his side—and you can, too, with Chasing Flavor. This is gutsy, earthy, soul-satisfying cooking, bursting with confidence and flavor, and the straightforward recipes will make you a hero in your home kitchen.
I finally have the Dan Kluger cheat code with this book! When I can’t make it to Loring Place, it’s nice to know that I can recreate some of his magic at home, and teach my cooks some of his hard earned culinary wisdom. Dan has mastered the blend of texture, acidity, heat, and seasonality in food. Trust me: You want this book in your home or professional kitchen.
In Chasing Flavor, Dan Kluger captures the essence of his magnificent New York City restaurant, Loring Place, showing how tastes are layered in each deceptively simple dish. As a home cook, the genius of the book is that I am able to replicate one component—like a sauce or dressing, or the entire recipe. Either way, Dan is helping me to up my cooking game!
I’d happily follow Chef Dan Kluger and his robust, vegetable-forward food to the ends of the earth, but with this book, I no longer have to go to such extremes. He is a thoughtful, patient teacher with the rare ability to break down his craft into the most craveable, user-friendly dishes that will make you look like a star. Chasing Flavor is a gift to the world of cookbooks, and I, for one, will be grateful to use it for years to come.
Since I first hired Dan to be the chef at Core Club, I have always known him to be a passionate, thoughtful and enthusiastic cook. With his focus on fresh ingredients and technique in Chasing Flavor, you will learn how to jump into any recipe and cook fearlessly.
Chasing Flavor?? Dan Kluger ‘caught’ flavor long ago! I’ve been eating his food in his restaurants for over a decade. Now he’s showcasing all of the ways he builds, layers, and creates his tantalizing dishes for all of us to make at home. I’ll be firing up his Fried Shrimp with Szechuan Salt and Chile Aioli tonight!
I knew right away that Dan Kluger was a great chef when I saw him shopping at the Union Square Green Market three times a week. That is where we started a collaboration that lasted many years and many restaurant openings. Dan is a master of taking seasonal ingredients and allowing them to shine on the plate. His book Chasing Flavor is an approachable guide to creating balanced and bright dishes. The techniques he shares will guide you through home cooking and will get you close to feeling like you are dining in his restaurant.
Dan’s cooking is beloved by so many because it is equal parts exotic and familiar. It takes a true expert to know (and to teach us move-by-move in this essential guide) that simple ingredients and simple techniques are the foundation of the perfect bite. Dan’s genius is to use small but brave additions to make that bite sublime. Get ready for some delicious kitchen fun, led by the master of knowing just when a recipe needs a little something unexpected to be just what you wanted.
This book of Dan Kluger’s is everything I hoped it would be, and more. It’s informative, utterly gorgeous, and one I will keep out on my kitchen counter for years to come. He’s a chef who truly expresses himself through memorable food, and it’s why I continue to chase him wherever he goes.
Chasing flavor is something that Dan Kluger has been doing for years, but luckily for us he’s mastered how to catch it. This book is an instant cornerstone of my kitchen. Dan gives great lessons on building flavor through techniques like charring or balancing sweet, sour, salty, and spicy. Chasing Flavor helps us take everyday pantry items and unlock their flavor and texture, turning ingredients we see as ordinary into extraordinary dishes — in the simplest ways. Dan is one of the great chefs and people of our generation. If you love flavor, buy this book.
There is no one who knows how to build and balance flavors more than Dan Kluger. And there is no one who has educated my palate more. He divulges all his identifiably acidic, sweet, salty, spicy, and textural secrets in digestible takeaways — schooling us not only in the why, but also in the how.
Chasing Flavor by Dan Kluger is an amazing book. It is clear why this author is a James Beard award winner. I picked up this book because I was intrigued by the title and the emphasis on flavor. I was not disappointed. I think the author has a unique approach to cooking and flavor that even home cooks can benefit from. He includes normal recipes that you would expect, but he also includes smaller, fairly easy recipes that explain how the ingredients can be modified in small but big ways. For example, I learned a trick about how to serve air popped popcorn and my husband loved it so much. I’m fairly sure we’ll be using that recipe for life. I highly recommend this book and I think many readers would enjoy it and benefit from the author’s approach. I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher with no obligations. These opinions are entirely my own.