Joan Roca

Award-winning chef Zineb Hattab presents a master class in bold, flavorful, plant-based cooking Chef Zineb 'Zizi' Hattab has earned global acclaim for her Michelin-starred vegan restaurant, KLE, in Zurich. In her debut cookbook, she turns her attention to home cooking, revealing how to create deeply satisfying plant-based meals using technique and imagination. Vegan Vegan! offers a practical framework for building flavor with intention. With Hattab’s guidance, home cooks will learn how to incorporate umami, layer acidity, manipulate texture, draw aroma from spices and herbs, and understand the cues that guide seasoned chefs. The book’s eclectic recipes put these skills to good use, offering ample options for everyday meals and special occasions. More than 100 dishes include savory Ramp Gnocchi; Sobrasada with Pine Nuts; billowy Glazed Sweet Potato Milk Buns; decadent Almond Baklava; comforting Plum Tart with Cottage Cheese and Cardamom Syrup; and a luscious Chocolate Coffee Loaf Cake. Dietary symbols throughout the book – gluten-free, dairy-free, nut-free, 5 ingredients or fewer, and 30 minutes or less – allow easy navigation according to dietary needs and preferences. Vegan Vegan! also includes recipes for 30 pantry staples, such as plant-based mayos, sauces, condiments, spice blends, and aromatic foundations. These kitchen essentials are designed to create depth, balance, and structure without relying on animal products. A must-have for vegans, vegetarians, and anyone interested in sustainable, plant-based eating, Vegan Vegan! is an invitation to cook boldly, joyfully, and often.

Cook with Joan Roca teaches step-by-step, with over 2,000 photographs, the main techniques for preparation, cooking and preservation of foods. He also explains the essential basics and foundations of culinary skills. This book shares twenty-five years of professional knowledge in an easy, visual and educational manner: boiling, frying, curing, pickling, blanching, marinating, grilling, smoking, and many other essential techniques that you can put into practice with a selection of easy, delicious recipes. This is a definitive guide to the secrets of cooking. The book demonstrates every aspect of cookery: how to organize the weekly shop, the basic tools, the essential cuts, taking care of food, seasonal products, tricks and advice to optimize your cooking and the best way to conserve ingredients, plus a selection of simple recipes that put all the techniques described in the book into practice. In these pages one of the world’s greatest chefs teaches you everything you need to know to become a truly accomplished culinary professional.

Founded in 1966 by Vittorio Cerea, Da Vittorio is today one of the most beloved restaurants in Italy. The first-ever cookbook from the Michelin three-star institution, this volume presents fifty never-before-published recipes adapted for discerning home chefs. Nestled in the foothills between Milan and Bergamo, Da Vittorio s renown lies in its artful seafood dishes and locally sourced ingredients. A blend of Italian tradition and culinary creativity, their cuisine is at once sophisticated and authentic, innovative and classic. From paccheri pasta with three different types of tomatoes and a fritto misto of fish and vegetables, to a chocolate-hazelnut cake, the recipes featured in this volume are accompanied by mouthwatering photographs and insightful anecdotes from the Cerea family.

El Celler de Can Roca is the three Michelin starred Catalan restaurant in Spain which was opened in 1986 by the Roca brothers, Joan, Josep and Jordi. In 2015, it was once again named the best restaurant in the world by the Restaurant magazine. The Times restaurant critic A.A. Gill compared the restaurant to former restaurant El Bulli, which was once ranked as the number one restaurant in the world, saying that it was an outstanding kitchen, and part of the great confident wave of new Spanish food that is complex, technically exhausting, aware of the landscape, history and politics. The first edition of El Celler de Can Roca The Book was published in Spanish in a giant format weighing an incredible 5 kilos and retailing at 90 euros. This new smaller, redux edition is appearing in English for the first time. An amazing book, this is the definitive work about El Celler de Can Roca. Fully illustrated in colour throughout it gathers the thoughts of writer Josep Maria Fonalleras in A day at El Celler. Here is the history, philosophy, techniques, values, sources of inspiration, creative processes, of this band of extraordinary chefs with over 90 detailed recipes, and a collection of the 240 most outstanding dishes from the 25-year history of this magnificent restaurant. An open door to the secrets of El Celler de Can Roca, revealed in 16 chapters and organised according to the sources of inspiration that nurture the Roca brothers: Tradition, Memory, Academia, Product, Landscape, Wine, Chromatism, Sweet, Transversal Creation, Perfume, Innovation, Poetry, Freedom, Boldness, Magic, Sense of Humour.