Books related to New York City

[johung]

Hi all,

I am at the moment trying to assemble a list of cookbooks related to New York (City). The only criteria is one of:

1. The author lives in New York City (or the wider Tri-state area)

2. It is by someone who cooks for/owns a very renowned or landmark restaurant within New York City; or

3. The book is about cuisines native to New York City. (Yeah, it is a hard issue because I'm not sure if you can say there is a native New York cuisine that is not "ethnic" in some sense, as you can confidently say of Neil Perry or Matt Moran being cooks specializing on "non-ethnic cuisine" in Australia)

At the moment, I can think of good authors from this list and I still have to fill up my library are:

1. Alfred Portale

2. Lidia Bastianich

3. Daniel Boulud

4. Eric Ripert

5. Jean Georges Vongerichten

6. David Waltuck

7. Danny Meyer (Union Square Cafe)

8. David Burke

I already have some books by Mario Batali and James Peterson. Anyone can think of anything else that looks good?

Thanks,

Joel

PS: I have also come across really awful books of NYC-based restaurant/cook/author. Patsy's cookbook is one example. Often you start regretting it after buying it.

[weinoo]

A few immediately come to mind:

Molly O'Neill - New York Cookbook

Arthur Schwartz - various

Mark Bittman - various

Nick Malgieri - various

[bluechefk]

how about the Magnolia Bakery books? Amy's Breads books? the cookbook from The Chocolate Bar? Does Zabar's have a book? or the Carnegie Deli?

[I_call_the_duck]

The Balthazar Cookbook. I've renewed it from the library so many times I may as well buy my own copy.

[tupac17616]

Francois Payard

Anthony Bourdain

Suvir Saran

[johung]

Thanks for the help so far. The Bourdain Halles Cookbook is a big and pleasant surprise because I thought he had only written works food commentaries and treatises on kitchen office politics.

Any else would recommend more works?

[Holly Moore]

Long out of print, but still available from Amazon - The Greenwich Village cookbook. It is a 1969 compilation of recipes from over 70 Greenwich Village restaurants of that era, a few of which are still around.

[johung]

Thanks everyone for the contributions.