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The Argentines grill more meat per capita than any nation on earth. Francis Mallmann was raised in the mountains of Patagonia, trained in the great kitchens of Europe, and returned home to become the top chef in Bues Aires and the biggest star on South American food television. In 1995 he gave up cooking fancy food and applied all the lessons of haute cuisine to maximizing flavor and texture with wood-fired cookery. His food is astoundingly bright and vivid with burnt, crusty tastes both rustic and refined. Recipes range across the menu, including n-grilled recipes for what to eat while you're building the fire. Most recipes are adapted for cooking indoors, so this is a cookbook for any season, any kitchen. Francis' seven fires are: Chapa - a cast iron griddle or skillet (the form most used in this book); Little Hell - cooking with fire above and below the food; Parilla - basically what's called barbecuing or grilling in the US; Hor de Barro - cooking in a wood-fired clay oven; Rescoldo - cooking food by burying in hot embers and ashes; Asador - cooking whole pigs or lambs affixed to an iron cross that faces a bonfire; and, Caldero - cooking in an iron cauldron or Dutch oven.Product Identifiers
PublisherArtisan, Artisan Division of Workman Publishing
ISBN-101579653545
ISBN-139781579653545
eBay Product ID (ePID)95713514
Product Key Features
AuthorFrancis Mallmann
FormatWith Printed Dust Jacket, Hardback
LanguageEnglish
TopicFood & Drink: General
GenreFood & Drink: General
Additional Product Features
Place of PublicationNew York
Spine27mm
Content Note250 Colour Photos Throughout
Date of Publication22/04/2009
Country of PublicationUnited States