The Lutece Cookbook – $245

The Lutece Cookbook

Here is the long-awaited cookbook from Andre Soltner, for decades the chef-proprietor of Lutece, New York’s most famous restaurant. Here is a record of all the wondrous dishes with which he dazzled his faithful customers for more than thirty years – 333 recipes, carefully worked out, brought together for the first time.
Soltner was the chef at New York City’s four-star Lutece for more than 30 years. Although he sold the restaurant this year, few people could imagine it without him, for Soltner, with his wife, really made Lutece, and, as he says, it was his life. Devotees will be especially glad to have this cookbook. It is really a recipe book and Soltner’s autobiography in one, a record of how real French food and dining were introduced in the United States. Lutece is known for perfect renditions of classic dishes, and they are all here, with newer ones as well. Many of the recipes are neither everyday fare nor the type of food most people would cook today, but this is both a history of a much-loved institution and a cookbook, to read as much as to cook from.