Seven Fires: Grilling the Argentine Way

By Francis Mallmann, Peter Kaminsky

Categories: Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Argentine chef Francis Mallmann's 2009 cookbook, written with Peter Kaminsky, celebrates the open-fire cooking of Patagonia and the gaucho tradition. It is organized around seven fires: the parrilla grill, the chapa griddle, the infiernillo, or "little hell," the clay oven, the rescoldo method of cooking in embers, the iron-cross asador and the caldero, or cauldron. Recipes for beef, lamb, fish, vegetables and desserts sit alongside Mallmann's stories of cooking outdoors.

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• Tim Ferriss: “there were a handful of cookbooks that really inspired me when I was working on the Four Hour Chef ... But Seven Fires, which was by Francis Mallmann”