The GQ Men’s Cookbook

A few days ago I received a review copy from Edition Fackelträger about the just released
GQ Men’s Cookbook
. At first, the sender Gentlemen’s Quarterly, i.e. the classic lifestyle magazine that has been published in the U.S. since the 1960s and, incidentally, in Germany only since 1997, appears to be a somewhat strange, perhaps even somewhat trying bracket. The table of contents then directly shows the broad spectrum: over 100 recipes from a total of 78 different protagonists such as Heston Blumenthal, Heinz Beck, Giorgio Locatelli, Jean Denis Le Bras and Gordon Ramsay are spread over the 224 pages. The original British edition is published under the (in my view) much more appealing title GQ Eats:
The Cookbook for men of seriously good taste.

At second glance, when leafing through the book, the positive impressions outweigh the negative ones. Some excellent dishes have been brought together, at least almost every page without exception appeals to me. Certainly also a credit to the very straightforward photographs, mostly by Romas Foord and Ben Anders. A big focus here is British cuisine, of course, but also a lot of bar food, then suddenly really complex and elaborate recipes in the “Michelin star recipes” category.

Maybe not the most classic of all cookbooks, also unsuitable for vegetarians, but apart from that a nice concept with extremely much variety and great, unusual suggestions and ideas from the other side of the channel.