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THE KITCHEN TABLE: BRENNAN'S OF HOUSTON

By Executive Chef Randy Evans
Photography by Jay Stevens


The Kitchen Table is the experience of enjoying dinner in the private dining room  within the kitchen of Brennan's of Houston - ringside! From that vantage point, in command central of that superlative restaurant, friends of Brennan's of Houston can observe the line cooks, the dishwashers, the salad and pastry chefs as they move with snappy efficiency and athletic energy around the gleaming kitchen festooned with copper pans. For groups of as many as ten, the chefs prepare customized tastes from the lavish menu over which Executive Chef Randy Evans presides.

THE KITCHEN TABLE: BRENNAN'S OF HOUSTON (Bright Sky Press/November 2006/$29.95) by Executive Chef Randy Evans opens with "Diaries of the Kitchen Table", customers' telling what they saw, heard, tasted and learned while dining in the center of the action. Following are chapters corresponding to the seven courses served at The Kitchen Table, from lagniappe through dessert and including "the forgotten course", cheese. At the heart of it all are the recipes created for this one-of-a-kind experience. Some of the recipes included are:
- Oyster Rockefeller Soup
- Creole Gravlax
- Venison Beer Hamburgers
- Texas Bobwhite Quail with Honey Balsamic Gastrique
- Pan Seared Foie Gras.and more!

Each recipe is carefully detailed and user-friendly, enabling at-home cooks to re-create The Kitchen Table experience in their own homes. The stunning photographs by Jay Stevens will make anybody who cracks the spine want to immediately fire up the stove and make each mouthwatering recipe.