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Bobby Flay’s Throwdown!: More Than 100 Recipes from Food Network’s Ultimate Cooking Challenge

Name: Bobby Flay’s Throwdown!: More Than 100 Recipes from Food Network’s Ultimate Cooking Challenge
Author: Bobby Flay
ISBN: 9780307719164

by Bobby Flay

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Overview

Are you ready?

Every week on Throwdown!, celebrity chef and restaurateur Bobby Flay goes head-to-head with cooks who have staked their claim as masters of an iconic dish—buffalo wings, chicken cacciatore, or sticky buns, for example—even though he may never have cooked these things before. The results are always entertaining—and delicious. In his first-ever cookbook collaboration with Food Network, Bobby shares the recipes and fun from his popular show.

For each episode, both Bobby’s recipe and his challenger’s are included, comprising a cross-country tour of regional specialties and good-hearted competitive spirit. Travel to San Antonio for puffy tacos, Philadelphia for cheesesteaks, Harlem for fried chicken and waffles, and Charleston for coconut cake. Try both dishes to pick your favorite, or challenge friends and family to a battle of your own. Either way, you’ll find tons of fantastic flavors in this best-of-the-best book from the first seven seasons of Throwdown!.

The ultimate companion cookbook to one of America’s favorite food shows, Bobby Flay’s Throwdown! lets home cooks and fans in on the action, featuring favorite Throwdown! moments and behind-the-scenes peeks alongside beautiful, all-new color food photography created just for this book. So if Bobby Flay ever strolls into your backyard asking “Are you ready for a Throwdown?” you definitely will be!

Synopsis

About the Author, Bobby Flay

BOBBY FLAY is the chef-owner of three Mesa Grill restaurants, two Bar Americains, Bobby Flay Steak, and five Bobby’s Burger Palaces. He is the host of numerous popular cooking shows on Food Network, from the Emmy-winning Boy Meets Grill and Grill It! with Bobby Flay to the Iron Chef America series and Throwdown! with Bobby Flay. A New York Times bestselling author, he is also the food correspondent for CBS’s Early Show and a contributing editor at Parade magazine. This is his tenth book. His website is www.bobbyflay.com.

STEPHANIE BANYAS has been Bobby Flay’s business assistant since 1996. She is the co-author of Bobby Flay’s Burgers, Fries & Shakes; Bobby Flay’s Grill It!; Bobby Flay’s Mesa Grill Cookbook; and Bobby Flay’s Grilling for Life. She lives in New York City with her beloved cat, Emily Rose.

MIRIAM GARRON has been the sous chef of Food Network since 2003. Prior to working in television, she edited three cookbooks in the MinuteMeals series. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York, the center of the universe.

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From Barnes & Noble

One of the Food Network's most exciting shows is Throwdown! With Bobby Flay. Each week, the grill king challenges a cook or chef at his or her specialty; the dishes include hot dogs, quiche, sticky buns, buffalo wings, chicken tikki masala, or Kentucky hot browns. Bobby Flay's Throwdowns! recreates those hard-fought competitions in words, pictures, and, not least, more than 100 recipes, but it also adds a new dimension: It provides both competitors' recipes for several dishes, thus allowing you to cook and judge yourself! One throwdown that everybody wins.

Publishers Weekly

A famous chef walks into an eatery and says, "Hey, prepare your signature dish and let's see if I can make a variation worth televising." That, in essence, is the concept behind Throwdown! the Food Network reality show that premiered in 2006, the fifth of seven Flay vehicles to appear on the network. This companion volume is one part recap and one part cookbook. For true fans of the show, Flay recounts each episode in his trademark cocky prose ("I heat things up with Jamaican jerk jockey Nigel Spence") and in doing so provides a tasty travelogue of eateries, from Asian dumplings at the Good Fork in Brooklyn, N.Y., to chile cheeseburgers at the Buckhorn Tavern in San Antonio, Tex. Whether by accident or by design, his cook-off lineup is a treasure trove of comfort food. Meatloaf, mac 'n' cheese, wings, lasagna, cupcakes, and matzo ball soup are all in the battle: 51 items in total, with Flay and a competing chef each providing their own recipe, for a total of 102 recipes. The author has never met a dish that he didn't want to sauce, and this proclivity is much in evidence, including a black pepper vinegar sauce over pulled pork and a balsamic glaze over a roasted vegetable meatloaf. (Oct.)

Library Journal

Flay (Bobby Flay's Burgers, Fries, and Shakes), who can also be seen on Food Network's Boy Meets Grill and Iron Chef America—here writing with his assistant and frequent coauthor, Banyas, and Food Network sous-chef Garron—covers seasons one through seven of Throwdown! with Bobby Flay. Recipes (e.g., Bobby Flay's Peach-Blackberry Pie, Terri Wahl's Red Velvet Cupcakes, and Sohui Kim's Pork and Chive Dumplings) include photos, an introduction to the episode, and both Flay's and his competitors' recipes. This part fan book, part cookbook will appeal to those who watch the show. With a ten-city tour and national publicity—expect demand.