Publication date: 2000
Price: $38.23
Review River Cafe Cook Book Green / Ebury Press:
Publication date: 1997-09
Dewey code: 641
Price: $21.95
Review Traditional Spanish Cooking / Garnet Publishing, Ltd.:Includes 270 recipes for traditional Spanish dishes, with inspired introductions.
Creator: Simon Griffiths
Publication date: 2008-10-01
Dewey code: 641
List Price: $35.00
Price: $58.72
Review Autumn in Piemonte: Food and Travels in Italy's Northwest / Hardie Grant Books:The culinary heart and soul of the beautiful and culturally fascinating Piemonte region of northwest Italy—from Crissini con le Noci to Fritatta Gialla e Verde, and from tiny countryside trattorias to opulent Torino cafes—is explored in this alluring account that is equal parts memoir, local history, and recipe collection. Located between France, Switzerland, and the eastern portion of Italy, the area is home to some of the world's best produce and known for its autumnal bounty—wild mushrooms and truffles, rice harvests from the River Po, and specialty cheeses from tiny, mountain dairies. Secrets of the agriculturally rich Po Valley and tales of the spectacular capital of Torino are coupled with anecdotes about friends, family, and the importance of preparing and sharing good, quality food. Lavish color photographs capture the bustling culture and illustrate the splendor of the region, while also displaying some of the delectable recipes, including Anchovies with Salsa Verde, Taglierini with Fonduta and Truffle Oil, and Nougat Semifreddo.
Publication date: 2004-06-30
Dewey code: 641
List Price: $82.95
Price: $60.55
Review Vega Sicilia (Fondos Distribuidos) / Grupo Anaya Comercial:
Authors
- Judith Drynan
- Pasquale Carpino
Publication date: 1985-01
Dewey code: 641.5945
Price: $17.95
Review Recipes from Pasquale's Kitchen / Doubleday Canada Ltd:
Publication date: 1930
Review New French cooking / A.A. Knopf:
Publication date: 1996-10
Dewey code: 641
Price: $29.95
Review The Laird's Kitchen: Three Hundred Years of Food in Scotland / Stationery Office Books (TSO):
Authors
- Elisabetta Piazzesi
- Salvatore Giardinetto
Dewey code: 641
List Price: $20.95
Price: $60.00
Review Pizza and Neapolitan Cookery: Pizzas and Calzoni, Sauces, Pasta, First Curses, Meats and Fish, Vegetables, Fried Foods, Eggs and Desserts / Bonechi Books:
Publication date: 1963
Review Between meals: An appetite for Paris / Longmans:New Yorker writer A. J. Liebling recalls his Parisian apprenticeship in the fine art of eating in this charming memoir. A man of Rabelaisian appetite, with the exquisite palate of the true gastronome and the literary flair to match, A. J. Liebling (1904-1963) was a formidable eater and a remarkable man, and his nostalgic recitation of his years and meals in Paris is a pleasure to read, dream on, and drool about. Liebling treasured a good appetite as a prerequisite for writing about food, as his accounts of substantial meals (two portions of cassoulet, one steak topped with beef marrow, and a dozen or so oysters, for example) attest. For the poised, precise, literary, and humorous flavor of his writing, you need only crack open the book-any page will do. Liebling recounts how to dine superbly without being lead astray by too much money, and he digresses magnificently on the evils of abstemiousness ("No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane"). In this age of diets and pragmatic health care, it's refreshing to read such an inspired and inspiring ode to pleasure. [+]As a means of savoring a love affair with Paris, sparking an interest in a trip to France, restructuring your priorities for the trip you've already planned, or gearing up on the flight over for the gastronomic debauches to come, Liebling is unsurpassed. -Stephanie Gold.
Publication date: 2005-06-30
Dewey code: 641
Price: $69.95
Review 1080 Recetas De Cocina/ 1080 Cooking Recipes / Alianza Editorial Sa:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2006-11-24
List Price: $150.00
Price: $125.30
Review Paris Bistro Cookery (The Kegan Paul Library of Culinary History and Cookery) / Taylor and Francis:Ou sont les bistros d'antan? Many visitors who arrive in Paris expecting to eat well in the bistros the city was once famous for, find many have closed or turned into sushi bars. But although these small restaurants with zinc counters serving delicious traditional spécialitiés de la maison and plats du jour under the watchful direction of the Patron have all but disappeared from Paris, they live on in the pages of this delightful book. It offers a hundred recipes from fifty of the best authentic Paris bistros, collected in the 1950's when these establishments were at their height. Part guidebook and part cookbook, this volume gives the address and description of each bistro as it was, and its colourful denizens, followed by its signature recipes. A work to savour.
Authors
- Maggie Beer
- Stephanie Alexander
Publication date: 2003-09
Dewey code: 641
List Price: $21.95
Price: $61.89
Review Tuscan Cookbook / Laurel Glen Publishing:Fans of Italian food will be transported by this book to Tuscany and immersed in its culinary traditions, which emphasize fresh, seasonal ingredients cooked with a light hand to preserve flavors. Central to the cuisine are olive oil, bread, tomatoes, wine, and grilling over an open flame. Because the regional style is steeped in history, every dish here tells a story, whether Roasted Rabbit with Onions, Pancetta, and Thyme; Porcini in Grape Leaves; Gnocchi with Sage and Burnt Butter; or Amaretti-Stuffed Peaches with Blood Orange Juice. The authors, both experienced cooking teachers, make the recipes accessible for the home cook and provide a fascinating tour through traditional Tuscan kitchens from Florence to Sienna. This cookbook is fully indexed by course and main ingredients, and contains 300 color photographs of ingredients, finished dishes, as well as images of Tuscan culture, architecture, and the beautiful countryside. When Australian chefs Stephanie Alexander and Maggie Beer arrived in Tuscany to run a cooking school, they had no idea how much fun they were going to have. Their Tuscan Cookbook is the result of those magical two months. Meals revolved around basic ingredients: bread, tomatoes, olive oil, and wine. The first lesson was: "The fruit and vegetables were so fresh that they had to be used immediately: when one is surrounded by produce picked when ready to eat this is exactly what one must do!" Students and teachers alike learned to produce sumptuous meals based on what the market had that morning. One day it might be Grilled Squab with a Gratin of Squash or perhaps Herbed Pasta with Fresh Tomato and Red Onion Sauce. [+]Another day is might be Rotolo di Spinaci preceded by an antipasto with mozzarella-stuffed zucchini flowers and marinated mussels. The accompanying photos of the dishes and Tuscan life are as tantalizing as the recipes. -Dana Van Nest.
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1997-05-19
Dewey code: 641.594575
Price: $25.00
Review Flavors of Puglia / Broadway:Dazzling combinations of colorful, earthy vegetables. Comforting soups with beans, grains, and fragrant herbs. Simple seafood dishes prepared with fish and shellfish straight from the sea. Pasta adorned with fresh, flavorful sauces. Food that embraces the humble abundance of Puglia, from olive groves, wheatfields, vineyards, gardens, and the blue waters of the Adriatic and Ionian Seas. In this first-ever cookbook devoted to the foods of this bountiful region, located at the heel of the Italian boot, Nancy Harmon Jenkins combines her masterful knowledge of the Mediterranean with the recipes and traditions of Pugliese home cooks. Featuring more than 100 recipes, for every course from the antipasti to dessert, Flavors of Puglia introduces American home cooks to the aromas and flavors of the cuisine of Puglia. Taking a culinary tour of this remarkable region, Jenkins offers recipes for classic Pugliese dishes including tiedda, a casserole made with mussels, potatoes, tomatoes, and zucchini; and orecchiette, Puglia's famous ear-shaped pasta, tossed with pungent broccoli rabe and dressed with a sprightly mix of oil, garlic, and red pepper. Other recipes include panzerotti, deep-fried tarts filled with onion-olive stuffing or a spicy pork filling; stewed black olives served with chunks of country-style bread for sopping up herb-scented olive oil; calzone, a two-crusted pizza with olives, leeks, and a hint of anchovy; and fresh fish and shellfish served on their own, in casseroles, or seafood stews. Jenkins offers graceful descriptions of Puglia's landscape and introduces readers to local fishermen, bakers, pastamakers, olive oil producers, and winemakers who produce the best food the region has to offer. [+] A detailed section for travelers offers restaurant and hotel suggestions and provides a list of dishes and food products that are specialties of the region. A resource guide and extensive notes on choosing ingredients round out this splendid cookbook, which will win readers over to this charming and, as yet, undiscovered region of Italy. The realization that Italy is shaped like a boot is about as old a notion as footwear itself. But how often is the heel of that boot, the region called Puglia, ever considered? Rarely, to be sure. It's not just the glorious, far-reaching history of Puglia that begs to be explored, but also the living culture and the living foods. Nancy Harmon Jenkins, author of the Mediterranean Diet Cookbook, has at least taken on the food of Puglia, and through that portal we catch glimpses of the country's people, culture, and history. For Jenkins is no mere cookbook author, and Flavors of Puglia is no bottomless sump of recipes cast willy-nilly upon the page. She brings a keen intellect to her work as well as a passion for food, people, and the connections that can be made at a well-laid table-connections unlike any others. She is an anthropologist of the human soul as revealed through food, and the recipes she selects push the reader into a much deeper understanding of the soul of Puglia than would otherwise be possible. And the bonus? The sheer simplicity and deliciousness of it all. "The cuisine of Puglia was shaped by the cuisine of poverty," Jenkins reports. But the region is unusual for the way the poor and the wealthy eat the same dishes, the same foods; "the rich simply eat more," as Jenkins says. So the point of the food is to take a few ingredients-never a lot of meat-and maximize the flavors. The results, both heavenly and healthy, turn the cook back to the origins of good food and diet. Jenkins's great trick is that she can make you smell the dish prepared on the page and even see the ocean change color as the sun fades and night embraces the land.
Authors
- Francois Pierre La Varenne
Publication date: 2006-06-06
Dewey code: 641.5944
List Price: $80.00
Price: $62.09
Review La Varenne's Cookery: The French Cook, The French Pastry Chef, The French Confectioner / Prospect Books (UK):These three books by Francois Pierre de la Varenne (c. 1615-1678), who was chef to the Marquis d'Uxelles, are the most important French cookery books of the seventeenth century. They were the first French cookery books of any substance since Le Viandier almost 300 years before, and they ran to thirty editions in 75 years. The reason for the success was simple: these were the first books to record and embody the immense advance which French cooking had made, largely under the influence of Italy and the Renaissance, since the fifteenth century. Some characteristics of medieval cookery are still visible, but many have disappeared. New World ingredients make their entrance. A surprising number of recipes for dishes still made in modern times (omelettes, beignets and even pumpkin pie) are given. The watershed from medieval to modern times is being crossed before our eyes in La Varenne's pages. So important was this book that English cooks of the time immediately bought copies and one (anonymous) even translated it into English in the middle of the Puritan rule of Oliver Cromwell. This translation, as is the original, is extremely difficult to understand: there are difficult words, omissions, mistranslations, and other opacities. [+]Terence Scully has solved all modern readers' problems by undertaking a modern translation with detailed commentary of the original French texts. His work takes cognisance of the early English translation, as well as not ignoring contemporary works available to those early cooks for purposes of comparison and contrast. Terence Scully is Emeritus Professor of French at Wilfrid Laurier University. He specialises in medieval French language and literature, and is the author of The Art of Cookery in the Middle Ages, and has translated Le Vivendier, Le Viandier, and the treatise on cookery by Chiquart. He is also author of many articles and other writings on French philology.
Publication date: 2004-03
Price: $15.95
Review Mangiamo! Let's Eat / KCTS Television:Our past meets the present around the dinner table. Italian chef Nick Stellino invites you to savor the pleasures of the kitchen and the family table. He shares his love of family and good food, with innovative yet easy-to-prepare culinary creations that evoke the traditions of his native Sicily. The dishes are elegant yet quickly prepared, using affordable ingredients that can be found at most supermarkets. Nick also shares useful tips for preparation and presentation, along with warm personal stories that recall the family kitchen of his childhood.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-08
Dewey code: 947
List Price: $59.99
Price: $59.99
Review The Taste of Conquest: The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice: Library Edition / Playaway:The smell of sweet cinnamon on your morning oatmeal, the gentle heat of gingerbread, the sharp piquant bite from your everyday peppermill. The tales these spices could tell: of lavish Renaissance banquets perfumed with cloves, and flimsy sailing ships sent around the world to secure a scented prize; of cinnamon-dusted custard tarts and nutmeg-induced genocide; of pungent elixirs and the quest for the pepper groves of paradise. The Taste of Conquest offers up a riveting, globe-trotting tale of unquenchable desire, fanatical religion, raw greed, fickle fashion, and mouthwatering cuisine–in short, the very stuff of which our world is made. In this engaging, enlightening, and anecdote-filled history, Michael Krondl, a noted chef turned writer and food historian, tells the story of three legendary cities–Venice, Lisbon, and Amsterdam–and how their single-minded pursuit of spice helped to make (and remake) the Western diet and set in motion the first great wave of globalization. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the world’s peoples were irrevocably brought together as a result of the spice trade. Before the great voyages of discovery, Venice controlled the business in Eastern seasonings and thereby became medieval Europe’s most cosmopolitan urban center. Driven to dominate this trade, Portugal’s mariners pioneered sea routes to the New World and around the Cape of Good Hope to India to unseat Venice as Europe’s chief pepper dealer. Then, in the 1600s, the savvy businessmen of Amsterdam “invented” the modern corporation–the Dutch East India Company–and took over as spice merchants to the world. Sharing meals and stories with Indian pepper planters, Portuguese sailors, and Venetian foodies, Krondl takes every opportunity to explore the world of long ago and sample its many flavors. The spice trade and its cultural exchanges didn’t merely lend kick to the traditional Venetian cookies called peverini, or add flavor to Portuguese sausages of every description, or even make the Indonesian rice table more popular than Chinese takeout in trendy Amsterdam. [+]No, the taste for spice of a few wealthy Europeans led to great crusades, astonishing feats of bravery, and even wholesale slaughter. As stimulating as it is pleasurable, and filled with surprising insights, The Taste of Conquest offers a fascinating perspective on how, in search of a tastier dish, the world has been transformed.
Authors
- Carolina Bechara Navratilova
Publication date: 2007-06-30
Dewey code: 641.86
List Price: $59.95
Price: $59.95
Review Chantilly: Reposteria Francesa Con Sabor a Tropico/ French Bakery With Tropical Flavor:
Publication date: 2008-04-08
Dewey code: 641
List Price: $71.99
Price: $63.56
Review Bravo! The Stylish Man's Guide to Italian Cooking / Xlibris Corporation:
Publication date: 1986-01
Dewey code: 641.65655
List Price: $49.95
Price: $61.95
Review Tempeh Production: A Craft and Technical Manual (Soyfoods Production, No. 3) / Soyfoods Center:Beautifully illustrated and immensely informative, "The Book of Tempeh" showcases this hearty, versatile ingredient in a host of delectable recipes.
Authors
- John Harrisson
- Hubert Keller
Publication date: 1996-08
Dewey code: 641.5944
List Price: $35.00
Price: $149.99
Review The Cuisine of Hubert Keller / Ten Speed Press:This is a collection of 150 recipes by Hubert Keller, which blends a classic French approach to food with modern ideas about healthy eating.
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