Gourmet Breakfasts for the GENIUS serves up recipes woven around a descriptive and enlightening narrative. More than just a list of ingredients and step-by-step instructions, they include helpful tips, charts, and definitions to assist you in fashioning the ideal gourmet breakfast.
Author Faiyaz Kara, a food critic for the Orlando Weekly, employs the recipes from a who's who of culinary giants--experts and respected culinarians whose intelligence is only matched by their artistry. They've won James Beard Foundation Awards, cooked for movie stars, royalty, and presidents, and have appeared on numerous television shows. Each has contributed unique and original recipes for this book, so if you want that "most important meal of the day" to wow, amaze, and dazzle, pick up a copy and let a bit of its genius wear off on your cooking skills.
Contents
Part 1 - The Pros of Protein
Chapter 1 - The Egg
We take a crack at whisking up some decadent mid-morning meals.
Chapter 2 - Breakfast Bovinity
An entire chapter devoted to the much-maligned, yet utterly irresistible, bovine.
Chapter 3 - Repast Ruminants
A focus on the sheep, goats, and deer that seem to get second-class treatment.
Chapter 4 - Of Fowl & Hen
Poultry struts into the gourmet breakfast spotlight.
Chapter 5 - Swine Before Pearls
Pork. It's the most widely consumed meat in the world.
Chapter 6 - Poetry in Ocean
We comb the depths to reveal the gourmet breakfast possibilities.
Part 2 - Breads, Spreads, and Batters
Chapter 7 - The Flip Side
Rustic hotcakes have been a popular and nourishing staple since the Neolithic period.
Chapter 8 - The Dough Also Rises
This chapter rolls in the dough.
Chapter 9 - In a Jam
Be it spread or syrup, this chapter lays it on thick.
Part 3 - Soup to Nuts
Chapter 10 - Breakfast MD
We dress cereal grains the nines and give them a little culinary swagger.
Chapter 11 - Meatless Mornings
Flesh-free recipes specifically designed for the vegan and vegetarian gourmand.
Chapter 12 - The Soup Kitchen
We demonstrate what the Campbell Soup Company knew all along - a bowl of broth is good food, day or night.
Chapter 13 - Luxe Liquid Breakfasts
It's time we took a moment to focus on an entirely different state of matter - liquids.
Part 4 - For Richer, For Poorer; In Sickness and in Health
Chapter 14 - For the Bold and the Bibulous
Boozy breakfast beverages and potent pre-noon potables are the main feature.
Chapter 15 - The Morning After
These post-coital and après-tippling dishes satisfy two conditions - of fuel as a furtherance of foreplay and as a sponge for alcohol.
Chapter 16 - Special Deliveries
Gourmet meal preparations that become a part of the celebratory fete.
Chapter 17 - Shallow Pockets, Chichi Tastes
Gourmet breakfasts to prepare when economics make it next to impossible to source or acquire the finest ingredients.
Part 5 - The Genius Touch
Chapter 18 - Kitchen Manipulatives
Handy and handsy kitchen implements to help you execute proper-good proper-posh breakfasts.
Chapter 19 - Kitchen Electrics
A healthy dose of technology does not a gourmet breakfast make, but it can sure help.
Chapter 20 - The Master Minds
Recognizing the genius of each of the individuals who played a part in birthing this book.
