FOODHEIM
A Culinary Adventure [A Cookbook]
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- $23.99
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- $23.99
Publisher Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From one half of the cult comedy duo Tim & Eric comes the culinary bible for modern food freaks, showing you how to throw epic parties, suck the marrow out of life, and cook better than your grandmother.
ONE OF THE TEN BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker • ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR: New York Post • “A book with all the recipes to Wareheim’s insanely delicious secret sauces? And a sneak peek at the man behind the curtain?? I’ll take two please . . . extra crispy!!!”—Jack Black
Director and actor Eric Wareheim might be known for his comedy, but his passion for food and drink is no joke. For the last fifteen years he has been traveling the world in search of the best bites and sips, learning from top chefs and wine professionals along the way. His devotion to beautiful natural wine, the freshest seafood crudos, and perfectly cooked rib-eyes is legit. And now he wants to share with you everything he’s learned on this epic food journey.
In Foodheim, Wareheim takes readers deep into his foodscape with chapters on topics like circle foods (burgers, tacos), grandma foods (pasta, meatballs), and juicy foods (steak, ribs). Alongside recipes for Chicken Parm with Nonna Sauce, Personal Pan Pep Pep, and Crudite Extreme with Dill Dippers, you will discover which eight cocktail recipes you should know by heart, how to saber a bottle of bubbly, and what you need to do to achieve handmade pasta perfection at home.
Written with award-winning cookbook editor Emily Timberlake and featuring eye-popping photographs and art chronicling Wareheim's evolution as a drinker, how to baby your pizza dough into pie perfection, and more, Foodheim is the ultimate book for anyone who lives to eat.
Praise for Foodheim
“We are all searching for greatness, and Eric is what we are searching for in ourselves. Through his searching we don’t need to search: we have found. Eric is my Martha Stewart, my mother. He’s the maître d, the Emeril Lagasse, the Andre Agassi, the Dennis Rodman. He’s true love and commitment to the craft of the food. He is food.”—Matty Matheson
“Eric has written an instant classic that will command prime real estate in every young culinary enthusiast’s kitchen. People will say about Foodheim what past generations have said about Joy of Cooking, ’This book taught me how to cook.’ If this book existed as a resource for me when I was making my bones, I would surely be more successful today. Hail, Foodheim!”—Kris Yenbamroong, chef and owner of NIGHT + MARKET
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Wareheim, half of the comedy duo Tim & Eric, cracks jokes as often as eggs in his rowdy culinary debut. Throughout, the comedian's voice takes center stage: "Most grandmas are wise as fuck," reads the introduction, for instance, to a chapter on comfort foods. Even the organization is unorthodox: a chapter on "circle foods" includes the "pork dork," a round of fried loin cradled between toasted disks of white bread, while pizza is awarded its own section. Though there's one green smoothie that Wareheim claims cured his allergies, most of this food is, like his cacio e pepe pasta, "deep, dank, creamy." Recipes are largely straightforward, and, jokes aside, this is a surprisingly informative volume, with a copious section on wine that covers everything from shopping for a bottle to opening Champagne with a saber. Still, there's no theme beyond what Wareheim (self-dubbed "Heimy") likes to eat—such as a list of 10 pastas he's enjoyed in Italy, New York, and Spain. While great fun for existing fans, this may not draw a lot of converts to the "Complete Heimy Experience."
