Melissa Clark

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About Melissa Clark

Food writer and cookbook author Melissa Clark is staff reporter for the New York Times Food section, where she writes the popular column “A Good Appetite” and appears in a weekly cooking video series.

Melissa has written 42 cookbooks, including her latest, Dinner: Changing the Game, published by Clarkson Potter. Other books include collaborations with some of New York City’s most celebrated chefs, including Daniel Boulud (Braise), David Bouley (East of Paris), Andrew Feinberg (Franny’s), Claudia Fleming (The Last Course), Bruce and Eric Bromberg (Blue Ribbon Cookbook), and former White House pastry chef Bill Yosses (The Perfect Finish).

Her work has been honored with awards by the James Beard Foundation and IACP (International Association of Culinary Professionals), and has been selected for the Best Food Writing series. Melissa is a regular guest on the Today show and Rachael Ray. She has also been a judge on Iron Chef America. She’s been a frequent guest host on the NPR radio show The Splendid Table and is a regular guest on The Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC.

Born and raised in Brooklyn, Melissa lives there with her husband and daughter. She loves anchovies, radishes, chicken feet, and lox but not in that order.

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Dinner in French: My Recipes by Way of France: A Cookbook 10/03/2020

by Melissa Clark

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The beloved author of Dinner in an Instant breaks down the new French classics with 150 recipes that reflect a modern yet distinctly French sensibility.

“Melissa Clark’s contemporary eye is just what the chef ordered. Her recipes are traditional yet fresh, her writing is informative yet playful, and the whole package is achingly chic.”—Yotam Ottolenghi

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • Delish • Library Journal

Just as Julia Child brought French cooking to twentieth-century America, so now Melissa Clark brings French cooking into the twenty-first century. She first fell in love with France and French food as a child; her parents spent their August vacations traversing the country in search of the best meals with Melissa and her sister in tow. Near to her heart, France is where Melissa's family learned to cook and eat. And as her own culinary identity blossomed, so too did her understanding of why French food is beloved by Americans.

Now, as one of the nation's favorite cookbook authors and food writers, Melissa updates classic French techniques and dishes to reflect how we cook, shop, and eat today. With recipes such as Salade Nicoise with Haricot Vert, Cornmeal and Harissa Soufflé, Scalloped Potato Gratin, Lamb Shank Cassoulet, Ratatouille Sheet-Pan Chicken, Campari Olive Oil Cake, and Apricot Tarte Tatin (to name a few), Dinner in French will quickly become a go-to resource and endure as an indispensable classic.

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Dinner: Changing the Game: A Cookbook 07/03/2017

by Melissa Clark, Eric Wolfinger

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200+ inventive yet straightforward recipes that will make anyone a better and more confident cook, from a James Beard Award–winning chef

“Everything I want for my dinner—dishes which are familiar but fresh, approachable but exciting.”—Yotam Ottolenghi

Dinner has the range and authority—and Melissa Clark’s trademark warmth—of an instant classic. With more than 200 all-new recipes, Dinner is about options: inherently simple recipes that you can make any night of the week.

Each recipe in this book is meant to be dinner—one fantastic dish that is so satisfying and flavor-forward it can stand alone—maybe with a little salad or some bread on the side. This is what Melissa Clark means by changing the game. Organized by main ingredient—chicken, meat, fish and seafood, eggs, pasta and noodles, tofu, vegetable dinners, grains, pizza, soups, and salads that mean it—Dinner covers an astonishing breadth of ideas about just what dinner can be. There is something for every mood, season, and the amount of time you have: sheet pan chicken laced with spicy harissa, burgers amped with chorizo, curried lentils with poached eggs, to name just a few dishes in this indispensable collection. Here, too, are easy flourishes that make dinner exceptional: stir charred lemon into pasta, toss creamy Caesar-like dressing on a grain bowl.

Melissa Clark’s mission is to help anyone, whether a novice or an experienced home cook, figure out what to have for dinner without ever settling on fallbacks.

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Dinner auf Französisch: Meine Rezepte mit französischem Charme (German Edition) 01/10/2021

by Melissa Clark, Anne-Katrin Grube

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Der New-York-Times Bestseller der bekannten Food-Kolumnistin
"Eines der besten Kochbücher des Jahres 2020."
– Library Journal
Auf eine Reise quer durch Frankreich nimmt dieses herrlich bebilderte Kochbuch mit und führt von der Provence über die Bourgogne in die Bretagne bis zu den Pyrenäen. Es erkundet Bauernmärkte, Fischerdörfer und Sterne-Restaurants, bringt Rustikales wie Croque Monsieur und Feines wie Krebsfleischpasta auf den Tisch und verführt zum Selbermachen von Lavendellimonade oder unwiderstehlicher Mayonnaise.
Die beliebte New York Times-Bestseller-Autorin und Frankreich-Kennerin Melissa Clark hat der butterreichen Haute Cuisine einen Frischekick verpasst und die Klassiker der französischen Küche für eine zeitgemäße, gesundheitsbewusste Ernährungsweise neu interpretiert. Entstanden ist ein Repertoire an 150 ausgefallenen wie praktischen Gerichten von Entenbrust mit Feige über die klassische Tarte Flambée bis hin zur Erdbeer-Champagner-Suppe und unzähligen weiteren genialen Köstlichkeiten…
Melissa Clarks Dinner auf Französisch ist nicht nur eine Hommage an das Land, sondern hat das Zeug zu einem neuen Kochbuch-Klassiker für Französische Küche!
"Melissa Clarks zeitgemäßer Blick trifft genau das, was gerade gefragt ist. Ihre Rezepte sind traditionell und dennoch frisch, ihr Schreibstil ist informativ und gleichzeitig verspielt – ein bestechend elegantes Gesamtwerk."
– Yotam Ottolenghi, Bestseller-Kochbuchautor

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The Perfect Finish: Special Desserts for Every Occasion 17/03/2011

by Bill Yosses, Melissa Clark

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The acclaimed pastry chef’s long-awaited collection of stunning-to-behold yet simple-to-make desserts for every occasion.

Most of us don’t have the time to make dessert, and when we do, it is for holidays, birthdays, or a special brunch. Here, selected from his personal repertoire of five thousand recipes, are the eighty best desserts Bill Yosses has ever made, each tailored to our contemporary lives.

The Perfect Finish is playfully organized by occasion: “I’ll Bring Dessert” features recipes easy to pack for potlucks; “Straight from the Oven” includes fruit pies best served warm; and “Pick-Me-Ups” spotlights brownies and chocolate chip cookies that will brighten your day. For the adventurous, Bill groups his guaranteed-to-impress desserts—including his signature warm vanilla cake—in a chapter inspired from his days in one of Manhattan’s finest restaurants, Bouley. Bill also demonstrates technique and unfamiliar ingredients and explains how to store and transport desserts. This is a book for every taste and every experience level, with color pictures of nearly all the beautiful finished desserts.

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