The Four Horsemen: Food and Wine for Good Times from the Brooklyn Restaurant

A Brooklyn hotspot with a Michelin star and an award-winning wine program, The Four Horsemen features distinctly American urban cooking, serving food which draws on many different cultures. It’s not fusion; it is smart and interesting.

This is a talky book, with stories of the restaurant’s founding and growth, lots of advice on ingredients (chef Nick Curtola keeps four kinds of fish sauce on hand), and recipes which provide plenty of contextual clues in case you’re attempting something you have never made before. Which will be most recipes here because the food is rather original.

How so? How about:

• Butter beans with kimchi and salt cod

• Sweet corn salad with pine nut dressing, mint, and peppers

• Poached chicken with jasmine rice and green garlic broth

• Rainbow trout with Asian pear and kohlrabi

• Butterscotch budino with whipped cream and hazelnuts