Review by Barb & Ron Kroll
Bobby Flay's Throwdown! More Than 100 Recipes from Food Network's Ultimate Cooking Challenge
(Clarkson Potter) ISBN 978-0307719164 0307719162
This Food Network cookbook contains 102 cook-off recipes from Bobby Flay's Throwdown! Ultimate Cooking Challenge TV show. In each cooking competition, celebrity chef Bobby Flay challenges cooks who specialize in American regional cuisine, ranging from pulled pork sandwiches to sticky buns.
Organized by type of American regional cuisine in Food Network episodes of Throwdown!, each chapter describes a cooking competition. For example, in the chapter on sticky buns, Bobby Flay competes in a sticky bun cooking competition with Joanne Chang, owner of Flour Bakery in Boston.
Judges taste-test Bobby Flay's sticky buns with orange honey brown sugar glaze and toasted almonds and Joanne Chang's sticky sticky buns.
The chapter includes the reasons judges selected the winner (Joanne Chang's pecan sticky buns), both recipes, and her biography.
A sidebar includes contact information for the competing chef in each chapter of Bobby Flay's Throwdown! e.g., Joanne Chang's phone number and the website for Flour Bakery.
Quotes from cooks describe their reactions to competing with Bobby Flay in the Throwdown! Food Network show.
Color photos depict dishes made from Bobby Flay's recipes, as well as the signature recipes of the American regional cooks. Other photos show Bobby Flay and each chef during the Food Network Throwdown! cooking competition.
Bobby Flay's Throwdown! helps you re-create cooking competition recipes for American regional cuisine. The 272-page Bobby Flay cookbook contains restaurant signature recipes, including Mike's Deli eggplant Parmigiana from David Greco, in Bronx NY, and San Antonio puffy tacos from Diana Barrios Trevino.
Bobby Flay's grilled rib eye with molasses mustard glaze. Tony Luke's traditional Philly-style cheesesteak. Bobby Flay's toasted coconut cake with coconut filling and coconut buttercream. Jasper Alexander's Hattie's southern fried chicken. Delilah Winder's seven-cheese mac and cheese. Bobby Flay's caramel apple cheesecake. Jeff Nathan's Sephardic chicken soup. Bobby Flay's gingerbread cupcakes with caramelized mango buttercream. Drew Cerza's Bourbon Street buffalo wings. Bobby Flay's honey rum baked black beans.
Chef Bobby Flay owns two Bar Americains, three Mesa Grill Restaurants, five Bobby's Burger Palaces and Bobby Flay Steak. He hosts several Food Network cooking shows in addition to Throwdown! with Bobby Flay.
Stephanie Banyas is Bobby Flay's business assistant and co-author of four Bobby Flay cookbooks. Miriam Garron is a Food Network sous-chef.
