The 4-Hour Chef Total Culinary Immersion Resources

 

SHORT TV

MOVIES
- Documentaries
- Non-Documentaries
MAGAZINES
TRAVEL COOKING KIT
BOOKS

Short TV

• Escape to River Cottage and Return to River Cottage.
• Heston Blumenthal’s “Search For Perfection”
      – Perfect Roast Potatoes
      – Perfect Steak
• Top Chef season 6, episode 13: “Goodbye to Vegas”
• After Hours with Daniel (Daniel Boulud)
• A Day in the Life (Morgan Spurlock series)

Movies

DOCUMENTARIES

• Jiro Dreams of Sushi (Japan)
• A Matter of Taste: Serving Up Paul Liebrandt (USA)
• Pressure Cooker (USA)
• Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers (USA)
• Kings of Pastry (France, Netherlands, United Kingdom)
• Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven (USA)
• The Restaurateur (USA)
• Eat This New York (USA)
• El pollo, el pez, y el cangrejo real (Spain)

NON-DOCUMENTARIES

• Ratatouille (USA)
• Julie & Julia (USA)
• Eat Drink Man Woman (Taiwan, USA)
• Tampopo (Japan)
• Babette’s Feast (Denmark)
• Like Water for Chocolate (Mexico)
• Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (France, Germany, Spain)
• Big Night (USA)
• The God of Cookery (Hong Kong)
   

Magazines

• Cook’s Illustrated
• The Art of Eating
• Gastronomica

Travel Cooking Kit

• Polder Kitchen Timer
• Polder Probe Thermometer
• Miyabi Kaizen 6″ Chef’s Knife
• Dexas Heavy Duty Gripp Mats

Books

• Becoming a Chef by Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page
• Mission Street Food by Anthony Myint and Karen Leibowitz
• The Whole Beast: Nose to Tail Eating by Fergus Henderson
• White Heat by Marco Pierre White
• The River Cottage Meat Book by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
• La Technique by Jacques Pepin
• The River Cafe Cookbook and variants by Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers
• Culinary Artistry by Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page
• The Kitchen Diaries: A Year in the Kitchen with Nigel Slater by Nigel Slater