The NoMad Cookbook by Daniel Humm and Will Guidara
The book by the duo behind New York restaurant Eleven Madison Park has accessible and playful recipes from their casual eatery, NoMad
This is the second cookbook by Daniel Humm and Will Guidara on my crowded bookshelves. The partners (business, not romantic) are better known as the chef (Humm), restaurateur (Guidara) and co-owners of Eleven Madison Park, a Michelin three-star restaurant in New York, which, in the latest World’s 50 Best Restaurants list, came in at No 3 and also won the Art of Hospitality award.
After the success of EMP Eleven Madison Park, the two branched out into more casual dining with the NoMad Restaurant in The NoMad Hotel. It wasn’t a decision they took lightly. In the introduction to The NoMad Cookbook , Guidara writes, “Some of our favourite restaurants are those that, once opened, are fully realized and will live forever without change. But EMP is not like that. It’s a project that we will never be done with, a concept that is always in motion. Still, in 2010, after four years of very focused attention, we realized that it was time for us to begin the process of building our second restaurant.
Eleven Madison Park: The Cookbook
“The prospect of another restaurant is so exciting, but scary as hell. Your second act can determine if you’re the next Rolling Stones or the next Vanilla Ice. We knew we wanted the new place to be more casual than EMP – its louder and looser sibling – but that was really all ...”
They found what they were looking for in a project that was to be the NoMad Hotel.
