In the original dust jacket. Blue cloth binding with white title on the spine.

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For conditions, please view our photographs. A nice clean rare copy from the library gathered by the famous Cambridge Don, computer scientist, food and wine connoisseur, Jack Arnold LANG. Jack founded the Midsummer House, Cambridge’s paramount restaurant. This dining experience is hidden amongst the grassy pastures and grazing cattle of Midsummer Common and perched on the banks of the River Cam. The Midsummer House experience is imaginatively curated to delight and amaze, so our surprise set menu changes regularly and is our playground to showcase our reverence for purity of flavour and natural seasonal ingredients.

          Jack obtained this unsigned book from Charlie Trotter

Chef Charlie Trotter has done it again, bringing his now-classic seafood recipes—including tilapia, salmon, oysters, and shrimp—from his award-winning restaurant to your kitchen

Charlie Trotter’s Chicago restaurant is praised in the food press from coast to coast. Now the master of culinary innovation tests new waters, with astonishing new dishes featuring freshwater fish and seafood. Dishes include Oxtail-Stuffed Baby Squid with Cremini Mushrooms, Mustard Oil, and Oxtail Braising Juices; Wild Striped Bass with Stinging Nettles, Wild Mushroom/Balsamic Emulsion, and Hot and Sour Golden Beet Sauce; Steamed Lake Superior Whitefish with Fiddlehead Ferns and Potato-Apple-Celery Purée; Tuna-Crab Roll; and Tuna “Tartare”s with Avocado, Crushed Black Sesame Seed Vinaigrette, and Coriander Juice.

The groundbreaking organizational structure of CHARLIE TROTTER’S SEAFOOD reflects the chef’s characteristic visionary style and holistic approach to dining—the recipes are presented according to the wines with which he recommends they be served. Included are more than 100 recipes using common and exotic fish, 75 evocative duotones that convey the drama of the fishing industry and grandeur of the fish themselves, and Trotter’s signature larger-than-life photos of every dish.

Charlie Trotter (September 8, 1959 – November 5, 2013) was an American chef and restaurateur. His best-known restaurant, Charlie Trotter’s, was open in Chicago from 1987 to 2012.

• Charlie Trotter’s restaurant in Chicago opened in 1987. It was named as the 30th-best restaurant in the world by Restaurant Magazine, and 5th-best in the United States in 2007. In 2010 Charlie Trotter’s was one of three restaurants in Chicago to be awarded two stars by the Michelin Guide. In the following year’s Michelin Guide, the restaurant again was rated with two stars. On December 31, 2011, Trotter announced that the restaurant would close in August 2012, citing a desire to travel and to pursue a master’s degree.

• Trotter also owned Trotter’s To Go at 1337 W. Fullerton, a high-end delicatessen and catering store in Lincoln Park, Chicago. This closed in July 2012.

• In 2008, Trotter opened his second namesake restaurant in Las Vegas known as Restaurant Charlie. The restaurant garnered extraordinary praise from critics and received the Michelin Guide One Star award in 2009. The restaurant also received the 2009 James Beard Award for “Best New Restaurant”. Within the restaurant was a smaller, private bar known as Bar Charlie in which diners were seated overlooking the kitchen preparation and received hands-on experience. It closed in March 2010.

• In 2004, Trotter opened C, a seafood restaurant in Los Cabos, Mexico. It closed in November 2008.

• Trotter had planned to open a restaurant in New York City in a new building being built at One Madison Park, but a foreclosure crisis prevented it.

• In 2014, Trotter’s son, Dylan, and Trotter’s mother, Dona-Lee Trotter, announced that the nonprofit Trotter Project would open in the original Charlie Trotter’s restaurant space on Armitage Avenue. Though the buildings had been put on the market after the restaurant closed in 2012, they were taken off the market. As of 2024, the project’s stated mission is: “The Trotter Project nourishes dreams, transforms lives and empowers communities through food, education, and community initiatives”

On November 5, 2013, Trotter’s son Dylan found him unresponsive in their Lincoln Park home. Trotter was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead as a result of a stroke. Former understudy Graham Elliot called Trotter a “mentor, trailblazer, philosopher, artist, teacher [and] leader.” Charlie Trotter’s spirit of mentorship continues via The Trotter Project, a charitable organization created by family, co-workers and friends including Homaro Cantu, Trotter’s mother Dona-Lee, sister Anne, brothers Scott and Tom, and his son Dylan.