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Charlie Trotter's

Charlie Trotter's
Chef Charlie Trotter
Chicago
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Charlie Trotter is known as a perfectionist. How else can you describe a chef who can write a whole cookbook on one type of ingredient (vegetables, seafood), an entire guide on knife skills or simply a book on the concept of excellence? His eponymous restaurant is creeping up on a quarter-century but shows no signs of age. Foodies still flock to Trotter's unassuming Lincoln Park brownstone for contemporary American cuisine—and never get served the same dish twice!

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Cookbooks
• Charlie Trotter Cooks at Home
• Charlie Trotter's
• Charlie Trotter's: A Pictorial Guide to the Famed Restaurant and Its Cuisine
• Charlie Trotter's Desserts
• Charlie Trotter's Seafood
• Charlie Trotter's Vegetables
• Charlie Trotter's Meat and Game
• The Cook's Book
• Cooking With Patrick Clark: A Tribute to the Man and His Cuisine
• Gourmet Cooking for Dummies
• Home Cooking with Charlie Trotter
• The Kitchen Sessions With Charlie Trotter
• Knife Skills: In the Kitchen
• Lessons in Excellence from Charlie Trotter
• Lessons in Service from Charlie Trotter
• Lessons in Wine Service with Charlie Trotter
• Raw
• Wild Sweets: Exotic Dessert & Wine Pairings
• Workin' More Kitchen Sessions With Charlie Trotter

Recipe
• Lamb Rack with Cumin-Scented Porcini Mushrooms and Golden Raisins

Products
• Chef's Story DVD

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GAYOT'S RESTAURANT AWARDS

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