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Ten culinary icons picked the next generation of talent and included the chefs’ stories, photos, and recipes in Coco. Thank Amazon for overnight shipping.
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Book Review by Eatmedaily.com
Be warned: Phaidon Press's new book Coco: 10 World-Leading Masters Choose 100 Contemporary Chefs (Amazon) will suck you in. As its neatly descriptive subtitle so concisely notes, this is a book filled with profiles of 100 up-and-coming chefs, as selected by ten "Masters": Ferran Adria, Mario Batali, Rene Redzepi, Alice Waters, Jacky Yu, Gordon Ramsay, Fergus Henderson, Shannon Bennett, Alain Ducasse, and Yoshihiro Murata. Each of the young chefs gets a few hundred words of praise from a Master, a handful of beautiful photographs of them and their work, and a representative menu complete with recipes. And thanks to that massive quantity of information — narrative, visual, and technical — this is a book that you can dip into, flop open to a random page, or read backwards. It's a riot of glorious information.