About this item
Sam Zien celebrates the best way to eat food. What turns chili and cheese into a burger? The bun. Carne asada into a taco? The tortilla. Grilled PB&J into a sandwich . . . well, you get it. It seems that every civilization on Earth has figured out that the best way to eat food is with your hands, using some form of bread as the vehicle from plate to mouth. In Sam Zien's hands, every burger, taco, tortilla, and sandwich is as cheesy, toasty, dripping-with-good-stuff as possible. Between the Buns is an ode to the handheld in every iteration from a man who knows how to stuff a perfect burrito. Zien has made cooking accessible to the masses -- with 3 million subscribers and growing -- through his YouTube show, Sam the Cooking Guy. Now that same charm has been translated to the page, complete with stunning photographs and 100 unapologetically carb-laden recipes that promise to satisfy.
About the Author
Sam ZienI quit a job at a biotech company in 2001 to try to start a travel TV show. The fact that I had zero travel or even television experience didn't seem to matter. I felt I could be at least as bad as lousy people on TV - and maybe even better than others. But a month before a trip to shoot demo footage in Tokyo and Hong Kong, September 11th hit - and that changed everything. So I decided to stick with TV, but switched from travel to cooking. OK, still no experience but did it really matter at this point? I shot a demo and a couple months later ended up with a twice-weekly 2-minute cooking segment on a local morning news program. Sweet. Not paid, but still sweet. The segments caught on and grew into a 30-minute show appropriately named 'Sam the Cooking Guy' - an irreverent mix of humor and easy-to-replicate recipes that have won 15 Emmy awards. Then Discovery Health came along and I ended up producing 'Just Cook This' which featured my same offbeat style with more easy-to-prepare, great-tasting recipes that also happen to be healthy. It's true - healthy doesn't have to taste like crap. I'm still known for my 'big in taste and small in effort' style, and have proven that as a frequent guest on The Today Show (the NY Times called me a regular) . In fact, my visit there with Kathie Lee Gifford has now been watched over 2,500,000 times on YouTube - and Howard Stern called me his 'hero' because of it. For the record I never told her to shut up. And now, with over 2 million subscribers on my YouTube channel - the delicious, fun nonsense continues. I have 3 previous cookbooks, and now am so happy to bring out #4. It's so useable, fun and filled with a ton of great recipes. You're gonna like it :)
