Girl and the Goat chef and Top Chef winner Stephanie Izard debuted her cookbook, Girl in the Kitchen, earlier this month. Izard launched the cookbook with a celebrity chef-studded party at Salvage One Oct. 5.
Chefs from Chicago restaurants including Lillie’s Q, avec, Chalkboard and GT Fish & Oyster were at cooking stations preparing interpretations of Izard’s recipes for guests to sample.
Girl in the Kitchen is packed with recipes for gourmet nibbles like grilled lamb-stuffed calamari with shallots and fennel potato soup with lobster and blood oranges, as well as simple classics like shrimp, corn and green tomato salad and four-cheese macaroni with apples and bacon. So now, if you can’t get a table at Izard’s always-bustling West Loop eatery, you can stage your own episode of Top Chef at home by whipping up a few of her award-winning dishes. To purchase a copy of Girl in the Kitchen or to learn more about Izard’s book tour, visit www.goat-tour.com.