The Simply Great Cookbook: Recipes and the Experience of Fine Dining from the Kitchens of Chuck Muer
Aug 222013
The Simply Great Cookbook: Recipes and the Experience of Fine Dining from the Kitchens of Chuck Muer
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Title: The Simply Great Cookbook
Author: Muer, Chuck
Publisher: Momentum Books Llc
Publication Date: 1992/05/01
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Binding Type: PAPERBACK
Library of Congress: 92015339For years discriminating diners from Florida to Michigan have enjoyed the Chuck Muer style to fine food and ambiance. Now they can reproduce that experience in their own kitchens. Muer’s chefs have carefully rescaled their finest secret recip
List Price: $ 19.95
Price: $ 39.70
A great cookbook,
This is a terrific and generous cookbook from the wonderful Muer restaurant tradition. Our family has dined at many of the Muer restaurants; for example, Charley’s Crab in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Grand Councourse in Pittsburgh, Gandy Dancer in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Chuck Muer was a fabulous restaurateur and his and his wife’s tragic deaths in a sailing accident during a major hurricane was, and remains, a great loss to those who shared their taste and enthusiasm for the kind of food and dining they and their staffs provided. This cookbook (and the second one, too) is a great cookbook but also a beloved legacy. If you have fond memories of dining at a Muer restaurant, you will be delighted to find many of the “classic” recipes here. If you have never dined in one of their restaurants when the Muers still owned/operated them, you will love the recipes that will be new to you. The recipes are just great, not too difficult, and easily accomplished by the home cook.
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Great recipes recreate the restaurant flavors.,
I worked a summer at Chuck Muers restaurant in St. Clair, Michigan. The River Crab. I guess I was one of the few people who didn’t steal the recipe book when I left. I always wished I had copied down some of the great recipes. The House Bread and the Charlie’s Chowder simply knock people over at potlucks. If you remember eating here years ago and no longer have access to the real thing you will enjoy this cookbook.
I still have fond memories of drinking coke from an old scallop bucket and eating yesterdays bread that went unused while scrubbing bags of oysters in the big steel sink.
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I wanted to like it…I really did.,
Kruse & Muer (a Chuck Muer and Bill Cruse joint restaurant) is my wife’s and my favorite restaurant. In fact, when we got married we had our wedding dinner there (small, second wedding for us). So, when my wife found this cookbook, we had to have it.
Unfortunately, our two favorite recipes were no where to be found…Maryland Chicken (Chicken stuffed with seafood) and their Bread (I can’t explain it except to call it Heaven). I could get by the Chicken recipe not being in there but the bread?!?!, travesty. That bread is so popular that K&M sells it individually. Luckily, my wife found a knockoff recipe on the net. Just wish we would have saved the $10 and found it first.
Oh well, even the best don’t succeed everytime. I still love your restaurants Mr. Muer!
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