"For three years, Eric Wareheim ate a lot of steak. We're talking three steakhouse meals a day, complete with sides and sauces. Towers of onion rings stacked high, bone-in rib-eyes, bubbling pots of lobster mac and cheese, fries and meats drowning in au poivre. His mission in traversing the country was, in part, figuring out how to define the "uniquely American" institution at the center of his new cookbook, "Steak House: The People, The Places, The Recipes.""
"Wareheim, co-author Gabe Ulla and photographer Marcus Nilsson originally set out to document the country's 10 "best" steakhouses, but ended up visiting more than 70 restaurants - and went so far over budget that Wareheim began financing their research himself. It's been a long time, he said, since he's felt that deep passion and conviction for a project. "I could honestly say this project was more work-intensive and longer than any project I've done, any film or TV show I wrote," Wareheim said."
Eric Wareheim ate three steakhouse meals daily for three years while traveling the country to define the uniquely American steakhouse for his cookbook "Steak House: The People, The Places, The Recipes". Co-author Gabe Ulla and photographer Marcus Nilsson joined the work, which expanded from a planned ten steakhouses to more than seventy visits. The research exceeded budget and Wareheim financed part of the work himself. The undertaking demanded more time and labor than any prior film or television projects. Wareheim's background includes entertainment, wine (co-founder of Las Jaras) and a plant-art business. Childhood memories of a mall restaurant called Seafood Shanty influenced his understanding of steakhouse culture.
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