Rich Table: A Cookbook for Making Beautiful Meals at Home

by Sarah Rich, Evan Rich, Alanna Hale (Photographer)

From Sarah and Evan Rich, the proprietors of Michelin-starred Rich Table—one of San Francisco's most coveted reservations—this debut cookbook brings recipes from the restaurant together with the food the Riches cook for friends and family at home. With humor and inventiveness, these delicious recipes merge the duo's sensibilities (hers Louisiana, his New Jersey) with a respect for the ingredients of Northern California into food that you'll love, wherever you like. Full-color photographs capture the rustic elegance of the food and the restaurant, while 85 meticulously tested recipes span salads, vegetables, meat and fish, sweets, drinks, and the pasta dishes that send diners into raptures. This is thoughtful, innovative cooking for those who want to set a rich table at home.

Genres: Cookbooks, Food, Cooking, Nonfiction

495 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 18, 2018

Reviews

[Scarlett O.H. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice recipes but could have used more pictures of the finished dishes in my opinion.

[Arianna G. · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked seeing the recipes in this book, but can say with confidence I will never make any of them. The stories in between chapters were the best part to me and I would def. want to eat at this restaurant. It's just not what I'm looking for in a cookbook.

[Lucylu57 · Rating 2 out of 5]

Full of recipes that would make an excellent fine dining experience, but off-puttingly intricate for the home cook.

[Liquidlasagna · Rating 3 out of 5]

As for the comments on the Douglas Fir Powder for making
Douglas Fir Powder Sourdough Bread

I found this on the internet:

I think that they are referring to the needles of the tree - dried and ground into a powder, much like you would do any other herb (eg fennel, rosemary).

On page 267 of the book it says "you can substitute another ground dried herb or seed, such as fennel, for the douglas fir."

[someone else found teabags of herbal tea that was 100% Douglas Fir, and figured that they would grind that up in a mortar and pestle]

[Mandy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Whomp Whomp.

*Stands on a soapbox with a megaphone*

IF YOU ARE CREATING A COOKBOOK YOU NEED TO HAVE PHOTOS.

Point Blank.
Periodt!

Like, more than just one every eight recipes.

Also, I have to agree with others are saying. These dishes are something I would order out in a fine dining restaurant, but it's almost laughable to think any home cook would have any of these items on hand.

[Mary · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you have Douglas Fir powder in your pantry and regularly buy bone marrow, you’ll be the type of cook who will find this cookbook accessible. If, like me, you don’t regularly age your own beef or keep kombo on hand, you may enjoy reading the struggle/history of Sarah and Evan Rich that interweaves with the recipes.

[Adrienne · Rating 2 out of 5]

Beautiful Meals, yes but not for making at home.

[Janet · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun to read their stories and I bet the restaurant is great, but not a single recipe I'd make in this one.

[Stephanie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Cookbook over reaches with unusual ingredients and elaborate recipes

This cookbook is quite elaborate and true to its name, very rich, recipes. It requires some ingredients that are unusual. Some of the food is quite intricate and complicated, and seems like it would be better without the addition. For example, sourdough bread with pine extract: fresh sourdough bread is delicious without elaborate additionss.

[(a)lyss(a) · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book isn't quite what I expected.

While a cook book, it's also full of interviews. There's information about the recipes and the people behind them.

There are some nice pictures in the book, but not as many as I was hoping for. A lot of the recipes are time intensive and the instructions are fairly high level, not a book for new cooks. The recipes are in both metric and cups. There's a variety of recipes and some that I'm interested in trying.

[Rhonda Lomazow · Rating 5 out of 5]

A lovely cookbook combining memories of Sarah & Evans love story meeting while working in a New York Reasturant .Memories that lead up to their opening their Michelle rated restaurant that I would love to dine in.This book with beautiful photographs phenomenal recipes is a warm wonderful read.
Thanks edelweiss for advance readers copy.

[Ella · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not for everyday cooking 😕

[Suzanne Wynnell · Rating 3 out of 5]

Do you ever really finish a cookbook? This is an interesting book, but the recipes are not for the novice or casual cook.

[Juli Anna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Invaluable, I am sure, to fans of the restaurant, but these recipes are too fussy and (frankly) too rich for me.