Traveling TV foodie frontman Adam Richman serves up an eclectic culinary collection in "Straight Up Tasty: Meals, Memories, and Mouthfuls from My Travels"

Straight Up Tasty: Meals, Memories, and Mouthfuls from My Travels

The much anticipated first cookbook from Adam Richman, the irrepressible host of Man vs Food and NBC’s Food Fighters, delivers what his fans have been waiting for: a heaping helping of over-the-top flavors with a side order of the erudite humor that is his trademark.

Having eaten his way from coast to coast and around the globe, Adam Richman has learned more than a little bit about what makes food taste good. He draws on all that knowledge and his lifelong dedication to seeking out memorable flavors and eating experiences in this high octane collection of dishes that are, quite simply, straight up tasty.

The more than 100 diverse, dazzling, and downright delectable recipes reflect the flavor combinations, techniques, and ingredients Adam has encountered in his nonstop travels, all translated into easy-to-use recipes perfect for the home cook, and all given a distinctive Richman spin. But Straight Up Tasty is much more than a scrapbook of Adam’s culinary expeditions; it offers the perfect foodie flavor bomb for every occasion from a crowd-pleasing spread for game day to a turbocharged holiday feast.

Along the way he holds forth on topics as diverse as where to encounter the nation’s best burgers and why the best thing on a restaurant menu isn’t always what you might think; delivers helpful advice on kitchen prep in haiku form; and recounts the history of chocolate in rhyming couplets.  And did we mention Candied Bourbon Bacon? You’ll find those delectable tidbits and oh so much more in Straight Up Tasty, a cookbook that could only have come from the passionate palate and irrepressible enthusiasm of America’s ambassador of flavor, Adam Richman.

MY REVIEW:  Traveling TV foodie frontman Adam Richman serves up an eclectic culinary collection in "Straight Up Tasty: Meals, Memories, and Mouthfuls from My Travels". With over 100 unique recipes, this cookbook is bold, brash, and bemusing--just like the author himself. He combines the food from his family and friends with the "flavor combinations, techniques, and ingredients" gleaned from his travels and taste-filled experiences from around the world. Richman advises that "Straight Up Tasty" is a "road map to great eating", loaded with food, facts, and fun. Here are some of the recipes that will fuel you up for own tasty travels: "Bacon and Cheddar Frittata"; "Creamy Tomato Soup with Grilled-Cheese Sandwich Dumplings"; "Chili-Frito Sloppy Jose with Sliced Avocado and Crunch Pickled Onions"; "Smoked Salmon Dill Dip"; "Homemade Pizza"; "KFJ Casserole Pie"; "Grandma's Home-Style Brisket"; "French Farmhouse-Style Simple Roasted Chicken"; "Easy Lemon-Butter Salmon"; "Spaghetti Pie"; "Edamame-Roasted Corn Succotash"; "Mom's Spinach Pie"; "Twice-Baked Sweet Potatoes"; "Southwest Relish"; "Salted Caramel Candy Apple Tarts"; and "Win-the-Bake-Sale Chocolate Cake". While "Straight-Up Tasty" definitely has a casual, "guy-food", feeling, there is something there for everyone.

Book Copy Gratis Clarkson Potter Publishing via Blogging for Books 


 

ADAM RICHMAN grew up in the food Mecca of New York City and began his love affair with food early on, sampling all of the diverse culinary specialties The Big Apple had to offer. From samosas to sushi, even at a young age, Adam had a desire to taste it all.
 
Years later, as an undergraduate at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, Adam began a food journal to document the standout food establishments he was discovering throughout the Southeastern U.S. Though he majored in International Studies, his love of all things edible naturally drew him into the culinary world after graduation. Subsequently, he built a solid resume working in nearly every echelon of the restaurant world, from coast-to-coast and from the counter to the kitchen. Though he never trained professionally, Adam was able to gain invaluable on-the-job experience in the various restaurants he worked in.
 

After earning a master’s degree in Fine Art from Yale University’s School of Drama, Adam traveled the United States acting in many regional theaters. The nature of his work allowed him to feed his appetite for the best local dishes across America – all of which found their way into his food journal. In 2008, Adam began hosting “Man v Food” for the Travel Channel, which quickly became their highest rated show. With “Man v Food Nation”, “Adam Richman’s Best Sandwich in America” and “Fandemonium” Adam not only hosted but co-Executive Produced.  His next show on Travel Channel, Man Finds Food, in which he stars and produces, will premiere April 1, 2015.

  
In 2014 he hosted NBC’s new food competition show “Food Fighters,” which delivered the biggest regularly scheduled week-one to week-two gain in it’s demographic for any new series on the Big 4 networks in several years. The second season will premiere in 2015. 

Adam’s first book, “America the Edible” (Rodale Publishing), hit stands November 9, 2010 and his second book “Straight-Up Tasty” (Clarkson Potter), will be on stands May 12, 2015. Adam is a board member of the Armed Services Foundation and in 2009 and 2012 he won the CableFax award for Best Host. Aside from TV, Adam has acted in numerous theater productions in NY and a variety of TV shows.

He currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.
http://www.theadamrichman.com/