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French Provincial Cooking
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eBay item number:185209728725
Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2007
- ISBN
- 9781904943716
- Book Title
- French Provincial Cooking
- Item Length
- 7.9 in
- Publisher
- Grub Street
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 5.3 in
- Genre
- Cooking
- Topic
- Regional & Ethnic / French
- Item Width
- 1.6 in
- Item Weight
- 25.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 528 Pages
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Elizabeth David's books belong in the libraries of everyone who loves to read and prepare food and this one is generally regarded as her best; her passion and knowledge comes through on every page. She was one of the foremost writers on food in the latter half of the 20th century and this book has her most celebrated writing. "French Provincial Cooking" should be approached and read as a series of short stories, as well written and evocative as the best literature. The voice is highly personal and opinionated, sometimes sharp but always true and always entertaining. Here is a long essay on French cuisine, offering background stories and sketches of recipes more than the slavishly didactic type of recipes that most modern readers might be used to today. For many Elizabeth David was the first to introduce us to the French notion of la cuisine terroir, sometimes interpreted as 'what grows together goes together'. For David, this is the heart of regional cooking, and the thing which most distinguishes it from cooking in haute cuisine restaurants where diners arrive at any time or any season and expect to be able to order any well known French specialty. One of the passages which best characterizes David's approach to a lot of cooking is her opening statement on the perfect omelet: 'As everybody knows, there is only one infallible recipe for the perfect omelet: your own.' The book starts with a short essay on each of the major culinary regions of France, starting perhaps not surprisingly with Provence which is blessed an abundance of produce. The largest portion of the book consists of chapters on cuisine by type of dish: Sauces, Hors-D'oeuvres and Salads, Soups, Eggs and Cheese, Pates and Terrines, Vegetables, Fish, Shellfish, Meat, Composite Meat Dishes, Poultry and Game, and Sweet dishes. The book is all the more valuable in that it paints a picture of a cooking style which existed before modern equipment such as the food processor. Most importantly, the recipes work if your aim is to produce the most excellent food imaginable. What initially may seem to be annoying details (e.g., for omelets, eggs 'should not really be beaten at all, but stirred, ' whereas for scrambled eggs, they should be 'very well beaten') are actually secrets to be treasured, that elevate a good dish to a superb one. The lesson is that good food should be done simply, but it takes care, attention to detail, and frequently, time. A hardback edition of "French Provincial Cooking" has been unavailable for many years and Grub Street is re-issuing it because of overwhelming demand. It should become as popular an edition as the best-selling "Elizabeth David Classics."
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Grub Street
ISBN-10
1904943713
ISBN-13
9781904943716
eBay Product ID (ePID)
111433900
Product Key Features
Book Title
French Provincial Cooking
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Regional & Ethnic / French
Publication Year
2008
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Cooking
Number of Pages
528 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.9 in
Item Height
5.3 in
Item Width
1.6 in
Item Weight
25.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Tx719
Copyright Date
2007
Dewey Decimal
641.5944
Dewey Edition
21
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