FRIED & TRUE

Tuesday, August 05, 2014

FRIED & TRUE
More Than 50 Recipes for
AMERICA'S BEST
Fried Chicken and Sides
Lee Brian Schrager with Adeena Sussman
Photographs by Evan Sung

OVERVIEW: Whether your prefer it cold out of the fridge or hot and crispy on a buttery biscuit. You will find your new favorite fried chicken recipe in Fried & True. Serving up more than 50 recipes for America's most decadently delicious food. Lee Schrager has left no stone unturned in his quest to find America's best fried chicken. From four-star restaurants to roadside fry shacks, you'll learn how to brine your bird, give it a buttermilk bath, batter or even double batter it, season with loads of spices, and fry it up to golden perfection.

AUTHORS AND PHOTOGRAPHER: LEE BRIAN SCHRAGER is the founder of the Food Network South Beach and New York City Wine & Food Festivals. He is also the vice president of corporate communications and national events at Southern Wine & Spirits of America and the author of The Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival Cookbook. A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, Lee has appeared on Today and Rachael Ray and serves on the board of directors for the Food bank for New York City. He lives in Miami and New York City.
ADEENA SUSSMAN is a food and recipe developer who has been published in Food & Wine, Martha Stewart Living, Cooking Light, Health, Self, and Every Day with Rachael Ray, and on Epicurious.
EVAN SUNG is a prominent food, lifestyle, and travel photographer based in Brooklyn. His work appears regularly in the New York Times and he has worked on cookbooks with some of the top chefs from around the world.

MY REVIEW: Review a book about fried chicken? I didn't think so! I wondered what could be said about fried chicken that I didn't already know. I love it and have been watching it cooked and eating it all my life. But then I saw some of the pictures and read a few pages of the book and found myself saying, "Wow. This is a book I need to look into.

I haven't been disappointed. The photography is excellent, the recipes are wonderful and the reviews of the restaurants are outstanding. I will certainly be trying some of the recipes and hopefully someday I will be able to visit some of the restaurants.

If you like fried chicken, and who doesn't, you will want to get this book. You will probably end up buying a few extra copies for friends.

(I received this book from Blogging For Books in exchange for a fair and honest review.)