Recipes from Alfred Portale Simple Pleasures

Simple Pleasures by Alfred Portale

The 125 recipes include home versions of Gotham classics as well as new recipes straight from Portale’s home kitchen. They’re all simple enough for any home cook, and spectacular enough to impress anyone who tastes them.

Along with the recipes, Portale offers pairing suggestions for building a menu, variations for adapting recipes according to season and personal taste, and flavor-building instructions on how to accent a dish with extravagant extras such as caviar or everyday additions such as flavored oils. In other words, home cooks will learn how to add a Gotham-inspired twist to their own favorite recipes.

A white bowl filled with a beet salad with feta and orange and sliced mint leaves

Beet Salad with Feta and Orange

Sweet, salty, savory–this salad has ‘em all, with each element perfectly in sync with the others. And without any guesswork on your part. That’s a good thing.