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Working the Plate: The Art of Food Presentation | 
 enlarge | Author: Christopher Styler
Creator: David Lazarus
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  32 reviews
Sales Rank: 9313
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 9.2 x 1
ISBN: 047147939X
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5
EAN: 9780471479390
ASIN: 047147939X
Publication Date: September 25, 2006
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Condition: Book and Cover in Excellent Condition
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Product Description
Feast your eyes.
Long awaited by professional chefs, this groundbreaking guide to food presentation will also delight and inspire culinary students and sophisticated home cooks. Acclaimed food writer and culinary producer Christopher Styler describes seven distinctive plating styles, from Minimalist to Naturalist to Dramatic, with several striking examples of every genre. Each plating suggestion is accompanied by clear instructions along with color photos of step-by-step techniques and finished plates. Complete with essays on plating from ten leading chefs and recipes for the dishes featured, this book is a work of art in itself--a must for the kitchen shelf.
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Good first attempt at a subject July 15, 2008
First of all, I am a professional chef. I enjoyed this book, but I doubt this book would have as much value for a home cook as it did for me.
The book is broken up into sections based on four "styles" of food presentation. Each style consists of a series of plates presented from actual chefs from their restaurant menus. Each "plate" comes with a large picture of the plate, a description of the dish's philosophy, and three smaller pictures, each with captions, highlighting one or two of the elements to plating that dish. Additionally, each chef is profiled sharing the reasons they believe in their particular plating style.
There is a section at the end of the book that gives the actual recipes for each of the plates presented. I didn't read them all, but they seemed incomplete, even within dishes (possibly the chef wouldn't release the recipe for a particular element to a plate). I was not so upset with this since I did not buy the book for any recipes.
I was mostly disappointed that all of the elements to plating each dish weren't included. Basically one or two (more often than not one) key techniques to each dish were highlighted in the three smaller photos. Because I am a chef I could complete most of these dishes but my girlfriend was baffled when I asked her until she had seen me do the missing step. Some of the techniques are used on multiple dishes and were maybe omitted because they would be redundant in the book or they may have seemed obvious to the author, but others should have definately been included since they are not common nor included elsewhere in the book.
Overall, this book had to get three stars because, though I learned from it, a person who hasn't been to culinary school nor worked in a high end kitchen would not be able to recreate all these dishes. However, the photography was absolutely stunning, and this will definately remain on my coffee table for people to thumb through.
I think this is a good first stab at modern plating techniques. I very much appreciate the fact that the author/chef and publisher attempted a book like this and I hope someone else will follow up with a more scientific and complete attempt.
 working the plate May 24, 2008
This book has opened my eyes on some great ideals and will help me through some plating issues while I am in school and for many plates to come. Plus my family really enjoys the fancy plating instead of the normal drop your food in the plate and go. Recommend this book to any culinary student or individual who just wants to dress up thier plates for dinner or any meal for that matter.
to you intend to kill someone? April 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
do you really want to kill your son's mother-in-law?
she will drop dead when you invite her to have dinner and perform any of the suggestions given in this gorgeous book.
buy it and try!
 Don't waste your money. March 30, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
All the bad reviews of this book are accurate, written by people who have submitted multiple reviews. The 5 star reviews are non-believable, and are all written by people who have never submitted any other reviews. Perhaps they were written by the authors family?
ART OF PLATING??? Don't think so... February 22, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I was so disappointed because you'll think this kind of books would teach you new styles and artistic things, but many of the recipes (80%) are the same old things we all can do at home!!. I don't need to buy a book to learn how to place a piece of meat next to the rice, or how to twirl pasta, come on!!!. I was expecting so much more. The pictures don't show you the whole process,it only show some steps of the recipe.. at the end I felt I wasted my money.
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