Authentic Norwegian Cooking
Norway is a fascinating and culturally-rich country--covered in snow for more than half the year, strewn with mountains that limit land cultivation, and populated with friendly, sincere people. And now you can enjoy all of Norway's finest traditional foods with Authentic Norwegian Cooking. With more than 300 recipes gathered from throughout Norway, this comprehensive cookbook is easy to use, boasts recipes for every occasion, provides the history of the dishes, and includes a complete index and recipe titles in English and Norwegian. Included among full-color photographs are the recipes for delectable dishes, such as: - Pickled mackerel - Marinated salmon - Stuffed cabbage leaves - Lamb roll - Bergen pretzels - Spinach pie - Rhubarb soup - Thick rice pancakes - Sweet cardamom bread - Marzipan cake - And more! Author Astrid Karlsen Scott also provides tips for throwing parties, a helpful guide to temperatures, weights, and conversions, and excellent resources for even more Norwegian cooking. Heralded as "magnificent" by Ingrid Hovig Espelid, Norway's Julia Childs, now you, too, can enjoy Nordic dining any day of the week!
Flavours of Greece
Rosemary Barron's Flavours of Greece was first published in 1991 and has never gone out of print. It is now generally regarded as the most authentic and authoritative collection of Greek recipes. It was chosen as an Editor's Choice in The New York Times in the year of its publication and it is the only recipe book listed in The Rough Guide to Greece and The Rough Guide to the Greek Islands. Rosemary is about to open an international cookery on Kythira teaching traditional Greek cuisine and to coincide with this event Grub Street is issuing a new full color edition of this wonderful book. In this celebration of Greek food Rosemary provides over 250 regional and national specialties, from the olives, feta and seafood of mezes, to delicate lemon broths, hearty bean soups, grilled meats and fish, baked vegetables and pilafs, to fragrant, gooey honey pastries. Greek cooking offers seasonal food perfect for informal eating with family, friends and entertaining. In the 80s Rosemary owned a cooking school based in a 450 year-old village house on the island of Crete. This was the first of its kind in Greece, and described by Vogue magazine in 1982 as 'one of the best cooking schools in Europe'. Her recent courses on Santorini, exploring the foods and flavors of Greek antiquity, have been described by Conde Nast Traveller as 'one of the top ten cookery courses in Europe'. For nearly three decades, Rosemary has organized programs and presented lectures and workshops on culinary matters to a wide variety of audiences. A former President of the International Association of Culinary Professionals, she is currently working with NGOs on the development of food tourism in Romania. She is co-founder of Oxford Gastronomica: The Centre for Food, Drink and Culture at Oxford Brookes University.
Spaghetti Sauces
Eighty authentic Italian recipes are sure to indulge everyone at the table with palate-pleasing flavors. Twirl your fork into a plate of spaghetti topped with Pecorino Romano, Black Pepper, and Crisp Garlic; Mediterranean Pesto with Tomatoes; Prawns with Broccoli Florets and Paprika; Tomato Sauce with Goat Cheese and Basil; or Roasted Vegetables with Balsamic Vinegar. Biba Caggiano is an award-winning author of eight cookbooks and the chef/owner of BIBA Restaurant. Her restaurant is the recipient of many awards and recognition from Food Network Canada, Wine Spectator, Conde Nast Traveler, Gourmet Magazine, and Taste of Italia. She lives in Sacramento, California.
150 Best Tagine Recipes
Authentic yet easy-to prepare recipes that take their inspiration from Morocco. Tagine takes its name both from a Moroccan dish as well as the pot in which the dish is cooked -- typically a large and shallow pot with a conical lid. Tagines involve the slow simmering of meats or vegetables along with a medley of herbs and spices, the result being an aromatic and intoxicating combination of taste and texture. This book offers a comprehensive history of traditional Moroccan tagine cooking, including an extensive "Tagine Know-How" section that answers all possible questions about tagines and cooking with tagines, as well as a "North African Flavor Footprint" section that profiles the 20 herbs and spices that give authentic flavor to these dishes. Home cooks can bring Morocco into their kitchens with these tantalizing dishes: Cinnamon lamb tagine with apricots Honey-ginger vegetable tagine Beef tagine with figs and walnuts Artichoke and shellfish in almond milk Minted lemon whitefish Saffron shrimp tagine with avocados Pomegranate chicken tagine Moroccan vegetable tagine Fiery beef tagine with vegetables. To round off the Moroccan experience of the meal, Pat Crocker also includes recipes for dips, sauces and authentic souk specialties (typical street foods sold in markets), salads and sides as well as the traditional beverages and sweets. With authentic yet easy-to prepare recipes that will please both meat eaters and vegetarians, home cooks can create a true North African taste odyssey.
Le Guide Culinaire
The culinary bible that first codified French cuisine--now in an updated English translation with Forewords from Chefs Heston Blumenthal and Tim Ryan When Georges Auguste Escoffier published the first edition of Le Guide Culinaire in 1903, it instantly became the must-have resource for understanding and preparing French cuisine. More than a century later, it remains the classic reference for professional chefs. This book is the only completely authentic, unabridged English translation of Escoffier's classic work. Translated from the 1921 Fourth Edition, this revision includes all-new Forewords by Heston Blumenthal, chef-owner of the Michelin three-star-rated Fat Duck restaurant, and Chef Tim Ryan, President of The Culinary Institute of America, along with Escoffier's original Forewords, a memoir of the great chef by his grandson Pierre, and more than 5,000 narrative recipes for all the staples of French cuisine. Includes more than 5,000 recipes in narrative form for everything from sauces, soups, garnishes, and hors d?oeuvres to fish, meats, poultry, and desserts Ideal for professional chefs, culinary students, serious home cooks, food history buffs, and unrepentant foodies The only unabridged English translation of Escoffier's original text, in a sleek, modern design For anyone who is serious about French food, modern cooking, or culinary history, Escoffier's Complete Guide to the Art of Modern Cookery is the ultimate guide and cookbook.
Paella
The first comprehensive cookbook on paella - everyone's favourite Spanish dish - by the ultimate paella master, Alberto Herr獺iz. Reveals the origins, traditions, versatility and mouth-watering variety of this incredibly popular dish.
French Classics Made Easy
Classic French food is hotter than ever. But one thing hasn't changed--few of us have the time, the patience, the technique, or the cream and butter allowance to tackle the classics as presented by Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking. The good news is--we don't need to. For the past 40 years Richard Grausman, America's premier culinary teacher, has been training American chefs in a simpler, better way of French cooking, and in French Classics Made Easy--a refreshed and updated edition of his original collection, At Home with the French Classics--he shares all of his extraordinary innovations and techniques. Golden souffl矇s in ten minutes. A light and luscious chocolate mousse that can be made as a cake, a chocolate roll, souffl矇, or pudding. Plus Cassoulet, Boeuf Bourguignon, Coq au Vin, Bouillabaisse, Poached Salmon with Beurre Blanc--in all, 250 impeccably clear, step-by-step recipes in range of anyone who knows how to boil water or dice an onion. When a step isn't critical, Grausman eliminates it. If something can be done in advance, he does it. Plus he's cut the amount of butter, cream, egg yolks, salt, and sugar; the result is health-conscious recipes that don't compromise the essential nature of the dish. Techniques are illustrated throughout in line drawings. It's the grandness of French cuisine, made accessible for both entertaining and everyday meals.
Taste of Romania
Here is a real taste of both traditional and modern Romanian culture in a unique cookbook that combines over 140 traditional recipes with enchanting examples of Romania's folklore, humor, art, poetry and proverbs.
The Spice Necklace
While sailing around the Caribbean, Ann Vanderhoof and her husband Steve track wild oregano-eating goats in the cactus-covered hills of the Dominican Republic, gather nutmegs on an old estate in Grenada, make searing-hot pepper sauce in a Trinidadian kitchen, cram for a chocolate-tasting test at the University of the West Indies, and sip moonshine straight out of hidden back-country stills.Along the way, they are befriended by a collection of unforgettable island characters: Dwight, the skin-diving fisherman who always brings them something from his catch and critiques her efforts to cook it; Greta, who harvests seamoss on St. Lucia and turns it into potent Island-Viagra; sweet-hand Pat, who dispenses hugs and impromptu dance lessons along with cooking tips in her Port of Spain kitchen.Back in her galley, Ann practices making curry like a Trini, dog sauce like a Martiniquais, and coo-coo like a Carriacouan. And for those who want to take these adventures into their own kitchens, she pulls 71 delicious recipes from the stories she tells, which she places at the end of the relevant chapters.The Spice Necklace is a wonderful escape into a life filled with sunshine (and hurricanes), delicious food, irreplaceable company, and island traditions.
Chef Frederic's Best
Food has always been Chef Frederic Pierrel's singular passion. Now, he and his wife, author Deborah Pierrel, present a collection of his favorite classic recipes. With a refined and down-to-earth style, Chef Frederic gives easy instructions to create appetizers, soups, salads, vegetable dishes, main courses, cheese dishes, and desserts; he also shares the art of pairing these creations with wine. Chef Frederic's Best demonstrates how this French chef experiments and plays in markets and kitchens all over the world to find new flavors and develop new recipes, some of which appear as nightly specials and added menu items at the Lakefront, in Mammoth Lakes, California, the restaurant where he has worked as a chef for the last ten years. Chef Frederic Pierrel shares his way of life through his cooking. With anecdotal insights to his outgoing personality and creation of recipes, this cookbook presents a hall pass to cooks everywhere to try and try again without fear.
National Trust Complete Traditional Recipe Book
This classic British cookbook, newly updated and redesigned for 2010, contains a wealth of tempting traditional recipes.Revised, redesigned and updated with a selection of new recipes, this glorious book is a celebration of the very best of British foodContains over 300 delicious traditional dishes, from warming soups to delectable puddingsPacked with mouthwatering colour illustrationsAga instructions for each recipeThis classic British cookbook, newly updated and redesigned for 2010, contains a wealth of tempting traditional recipes. Choose from time-honoured family favourites such as Toad in the Hole or Rice Pudding, or discover local gems from around the country such as Stargazey Pie from Cornwall or Singin' Hinnies from Northumberland. As well as the conventional cooking method, instructions are given for each recipe to be cooked on an Aga.The book also explores the history behind some of the key dishes in British cooking, from 14th-century Macaroni Cheese to 19th-century Mulligatawny Soup, and the introductions to each chapter provide a fascinating account of our culinary traditions and influences. Sarah Edington's research has uncovered long-forgotten but delicious tastes of history from the roots of British cooking.The book's recipes are arranged as follows: soups; fish dishes; meat dishes; vegetables and side dishes; hot puddings; cold puddings; breads, teabreads and scones; jams and preserves; drinks and confectionery.
India Cookbook
India: The Cookbook is the first comprehensive guide to Indian cooking, with over 1,000 recipes covering every aspect of India's rich and colourful culinary heritage. Unlike many other Indian cookbooks, it is written by an Indian culinary academic and cookbook author who lives and works in Delhi, and the recipes are a true reflection of how traditional dishes are really cooked all over India. They have been carefully edited to ensure that they are simple to follow and achievable in western kitchens, with detailed information about authentic cooking utensils and ingredients. Indian food has been hugely popular in the UK for many years, and the appetite for Indian food shows no sign of diminishing. Now, for the first time, a definitive, wide-ranging and authoritative book on authentic Indian food is available, making it simple to prepare your favourite Indian dishes at home, alongside less well-known dishes such as bataer masalydaar (marinated quails cooked with almonds, chillies and green cardamom), or sambharachi kodi (Goan prawn curry with coconut and tamarind). The comprehensive chapters on breads, pickles, spice pastes and chutneys contain a wide variety of recipes rarely seen in Indian cookbooks, such as bagarkhani roti (a rich sweet bread with raisins, cardamom and poppy seeds) and tamatar ka achar (tomato and mustard-seed pickle). India: The Cookbook is the only book on Indian food you'll ever need.
From Kai to Kiwi Kitchen
In the past two decades, cuisine and culinary history have attracted increasing attention, with both popular and academic books reflecting the growth of interest. Recipes are both sensitive markers of the socioeconomic conditions of their times and written representations of a culture's culinary repertoire yet, despite the vast number of cookbooks that survive, they have not been the primary focus of research projects. Acknowledgement of their potential contribution to our understanding of culinary history has been slow. This book is a first in its field.
At Home With Madhur Jaffrey
For all who love the magical flavors of good Indian cooking and want to reproduce effortlessly some of the delectable dishes from that part of the world, here is a groundbreaking cookbook from the multi-James Beard Award-winning author who is revered as the "queen of Indian cooking" (Saveur). By deconstructing age-old techniques and reducing the number of steps in a recipe, as well as helping us to understand the nature of each spice and seasoning, she enables us to make Indian dishes part of our everyday cooking. - First, she tantalizes us with bite-size delights to snack on with drinks or tea. - A silky soup is mellowed with coconut milk; a spinach-and-ginger soup is perfumed with cloves. - Fish and seafood are transformed by simple rubs and sauces and new ways of cooking. - A lover of eggs and chicken dishes, Jaffrey offers fresh and easy ways to cook them, including her favorite masala omelet and simple poached eggs over vegetables. There's chicken from western Goa cooked in garlic, onion, and a splash of vinegar; from Bombay, it's with apricots; from Delhi, it's stewed with spinach and cardamom; from eastern India, it has yogurt and cinnamon; and from the south, mustard, curry leaves, and coconut. - There is a wide range of dishes for lamb, pork, and beef with important tips on what cuts to use for curries, kebabs, and braises. - There are vegetable dishes, in a tempting array--from everyday carrots and greens in new dress to intriguing ways with eggplant and okra--served center stage for vegetarians or as accompaniments. - At the heart of so many Indian meals are the dals, rice, and grains, as well as the little salads, chutneys, and pickles that add sparkle, and Jaffrey opens up a new world of these simple pleasures. Throughout, Madhur Jaffrey's knowledge of and love of these foods is contagious. Here are the dishes she grew up on in India and then shared with her own family and friends in America. And now that she has made them so accessible to us, we can incorporate them confidently into our own kitchen, and enjoy the spice and variety and health-giving properties of this delectable cuisine.
Noma
Ren矇 Redzepi has been widely credited with re-inventing Nordic cuisine. His Copenhagen restaurant, Noma, was recognized as the third best in the world by the San Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurant awards in 2009 and received the unique 'Chef's Choice' award at the same ceremony. Redzepi operates at the cutting edge of gourmet cuisine, combining an unrelenting creativity and a remarkable level of craftsmanship with an inimitable and innate knowledge of the produce of his Nordic terroir.At Noma, which Redzepi created from a derelict 18 th Century warehouse in 2003 after previously working at both elBulli and The French Laundry, diners are served exquisite concoctions, such as 'Newly-Ploughed Potato Field' or 'The snowman from Jukkasj瓣rvi', all painstakingly constructed to express there amazing array of Nordic ingredients. Redzepi's fascination with giving his diners a real taste of their food's environment extends to serving dishes upon pebbles found in the same fields as his produce. His search for ingredients involves foraging amongst local fields for wild produce, sourcing horse-mussels from the Faroe Islands and the purest possible water from Greenland. Redzepi has heightened the culinary themes of seasonal and regionally sourced, sustainable ingredients to an exquisite level, and in doing so has created an utterly delicious cuisine.Noma is an unprecedented opportunity to learn about Redzepi and Noma's history and philosophy, the sourcing of ingredients, the experimentation behind the dishes and the cultural significance of dining at Noma. Accompanying this insight into Redzepi's world will be over 90 of Redzepi's recipes, by far the most comprehensive collection ever published. The book will also feature a series of specially commissioned photographs, illustrating the food and atmosphere of Noma, as well as the Nordic environment that lies at the heart of Redzepi's cuisine.
Save the Deli
David Sax's delightful travelogue is a journey across the United States and around the world that investigates the history, the diaspora, and the next generation of delicatessen. David Sax was alarmed by the state of Jewish delicatessen. As a journalist and lifelong deli lover, he watched in dismay as one beloved deli after another closed its doors, only to be reopened as some bland chain restaurant laying claim to the cuisine it just paved over. Was it still possible to save the deli? He writes about the food itself--how it's made, who makes it best, and where to go for particular dishes--and, ultimately, what he finds is hope: deli newly and lovingly made in places like Boulder, Colorado, longstanding deli traditions thriving in Montreal, and the resurrection of iconic institutions like New York's 2nd Avenue Deli. No cultural history of food has ever tasted so good.
Matzoh Ball Gumbo
From the colonial era to the present, Marcie Cohen Ferris examines the expressive power of food throughout southern Jewish history. She demonstrates with delight and detail how southern Jews reinvented culinary traditions as they adapted to the customs, landscape, and racial codes of the American South. Richly illustrated, this culinary tour of the historic Jewish South is an evocative mixture of history and foodways, including more than thirty recipes to try at home.
Guyana's Tasty Exotic
An introduction to Guyanese cuisine, this book offers up an array of exotic meals. Whether its Cantonese Fried Rice, Curried Chicken, Metemgee, Garlic pork, Pepperpot, or Sherpherds Pie, you will have recipes that represents each type of people from this tiny melting pot nestled in the South American continent. Guyana's rich culture and beauty can be seen in many photographs highlighted in this book, which are meant to bring nostalgia to Guyanese abroad and pride for the ones at home. In addition, Guyana's Tasty Exotic introduces Guyana's clandestine beauty, culture and foods to the world. Deborah's love affair with Guyana is clearly visible in the culinary language and images seen in her presentation of this manuscript. Guyana is a country positively vibrating with an enthuasiasm for life, culture, music and food. It is rich in vegetation, fragrant red rum, and it's vast production of sugar and rice. The typical Guyanese cook has an array of ingredients to choose from, and utilizes them with great skill, thus creating delicious meals for their families. Guyana's cultural Association(GCA) is proud to recommend Guyana's Tasty Exotic. - Malcolm Hall, President of GCA
I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti
From failure to fusilli, this deliciously hilarious read tells the story of Giulia Melucci's fizzled romances and the mouth-watering recipes she used to seduce her men, smooth over the lumps, and console herself when the relationships flamed out. From an affectionate alcoholic, to the classic New York City commitment-phobe, to a hipster aged past his sell date, and not one, but two novelists with Peter Pan complexes, Giulia has cooked for them all. She suffers each disappointment with resolute cheer (after a few tears) and a bowl of pastina (recipe included) and has lived to tell the tale so that other women may go out, hopefully with greater success, and if that's not possible, at least have something good to eat. Peppered throughout Giulia's delightful and often poignant remembrances are fond recollections of her mother's cooking, the recipes she learned from her, and many she invented on her own inspired by the men in her life. Readers will howl at Giulia's boyfriend-littered past and swoon over her irresistable culinary creations.
At Home & in the Mood
In this, his latest book, Luke emphasizes cooking at home, entertaining, barbecuing, simple foods, snacks, food for the family and friends. Contains: Healthy natural foods Favorites and new takes Uncomplicated and easy to cook food 130 recipes Every day food such as sandwiches, wraps, pastas and stews. Mood spreads at beginning of each section with anecdotes and quotes.
