THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF Copyright © 2012 by Alex Hitz Photographs copyright © 2012 by Deborah Whitlaw-Llewellyn with the exception of those noted in the Illustration Credits. All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. www.aaknopf.com Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hitz, Alex. My Beverly Hills kitchen : classic Southern cooking with a French twist / Alex Hitz.—1st ed. p. cm. 1. Cooking, American—Southern style. 2. Cooking—California. I. Title. TX715.2.S68H58 2011 641.5975—dc23 2012005078 Cover photograph by Deborah Whitlaw-Llewellyn Cover design by Abby Weintraub eISBN: 978-0-30796094-8 v3.1 For Pierre Durand, without whom none of this may have ever happened A host is like a general; calamities often reveal his genius. HORACE, CA. 65 B.C. Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Kitchen Notes Notes on Ingredients Notes on Cookware and Equipment Notes on Techniques, Philosophies, and General Control-Freak Miscellanea 1 Hors d’Oeuvres 2 Soups 3 Salads 4 Eggs, and Cheese, and Grits, and Quiche! 5 Sauces 6 Vegetables and Side Dishes 7 Seafood 8 Chicken, Turkey, and, of All Things, Pheasant
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