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Crazy Water, Pickled Lemons: Enchanting Dishes from the Middle East, Mediterranean and North Africa [Hardcover]

Diana Henry
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15 Aug 2002 1840005017 978-1840005011
This selection of recipes forms an collection of dishes from lesser explored areas of the Mediterranean, North Africa and the Middle East. Divided into 12 chapters based on ingredients, the author introduces the home cook both to unsual indgredients and to unsual ways to cook with old favourites. Each dish is unusual, either because it uses "exotic" ingredients such as flower waters, pomegranates and cardamom, or because of its unusual use of ingredients, such as "Middle Eastern Orange Cake", made almost entirely of pureed whole cooked oranges. Several dishes are unsual simply because of their names, consider "Ice in Heaven", or the "Crazy Water" of the title.


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  • Hardcover: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Mitchell Beazley (15 Aug 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1840005017
  • ISBN-13: 978-1840005011
  • Product Dimensions: 26.2 x 19.4 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (53 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 609,114 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Henry's taste is impeccable, and her food looks gorgeous." The Independent" --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Diana Henry writes on food for numerous magazines, including House and Garden, Food and Travel, BBC Good Food Magazine and The English Home. She spent 12 years as a TV producer, making high-profile food programmes, most notably with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. Diana also worked closely with Antonio Carluccio on his Vegetable book.

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A Mediterranean Delight 25 Jan 2012
Format:Hardcover
I've had this book for two whole weekends and I can't wait for next weekend to get back in the kitchen with it. I don't use cookbooks anywhere near as often as I used to, as I can simply search for a recipe on line in much less time than it would take to search my bookshelves, but this book offers something much more.

Each chapter starts with a wonderful essay about the upcoming ingredients, telling tales of eating meals in Spain, Greece, Iran, Turkey and more. These are each written with real love not only for the food, but the people. The chapters are arranged unconventionally, with titles such as "Food From The Hearth", "Fruits Of Longing" and "A Bowl Of Fresh Herbs", inviting you in. Most of the dishes I've made so far I've never even heard of, let alone tasted. One upside is that no-one will know if they've gone wrong, they have no frame of reference.

So far I've made a refreshing grapefruit and Campari granita, a Turkish pizza with pomegranates, and flatbreads with onions and Italian cheese. I've made my own cheese from yogurt and there's lemons pickling in the kitchen. I have big plans for anchovies and an Iranian style mezze meal next weekend.

Diana Henry assumes that you want to cook, are happy to experiment, and won't mind a few things going wrong. With one Spanish shrimp and noodle dish she'd warned me how not to mess it up, but then offered handy rescue tips for when I'd ignored that advice. The recipes are written clearly, with the instructions in a sensible order, no getting half way through before you discover you need an element of a dish to have been prepared 24 hours ago and no unnecessary 'banter' in the directions to take you off track.

I'm just a little bit in love with Crazy Water, Pickled Lemons, and my family is delighted with the affair I'm having, it's working out great at dinner time.
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61 of 64 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars lyrical with outstanding recipes 14 Nov 2002
By A Customer
Format:Hardcover
There are several reasons I love this cookbook. First of all, every single recipe I've cooked so far (five, after owning it for 2 weeks) has been absolutely delicious. They really make you want to cook and eat. Secondly, Diana Henry's evocative essays and useful cooking tips have already expanded the range of flavours in my kitchen. If you've ever been intrigued by orange blossom water or pickled lemons, say, but didn't know how to use them, this book will inspire you to explore their possibilities, as it has for me. Thirdly, the wonderful photographs mean this is a beautiful cookbook, without being untouchably 'posh'. The food is 'home cooking' (ie approachable) but also adventurous. One of the best cookbooks of the year so far.
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38 of 40 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars A Mediterranean Jewel 10 Sep 2002
Format:Hardcover
What a wonderful book! This is a must-have for anyone who enjoys the food of the Mediterranean and is looking either for a different take on familiar ingedients or to be introduced to a whole host of new ones.
Diana Henry's fantastic recipes are interspersed with pages of tantalising and mouthwatering prose as well as carefully chosen literary quotations. This is a book that easily makes great bedside reading and should not just be confined to the kitchen.
Individual chapters deal with ingredients such as herbs, spices, fruit, nuts and even flower waters. Exciting recipes with exotic names beckon - how does "Rhone Ferryman's Beef with Camargue Red Rice" sound? Or even "Ice Heaven"? I can't wait to try dishes like "Lemon and Basil Ice Cream" or "Arab Andalusian Monkfish with Saffron, Honey and Vinegar" to name but two. In fact so infectious is Diana Henry's enthusiasm that I defy anyone who buys this book not to want to cook from it at the first opportunity.
I hope that there are many more publications to come!
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Good cook book
Excellent book with superb recipes and information. It contained all the info I wanted with recipes that were new to me.
Published 2 months ago by Bob - B
3.0 out of 5 stars Let down by design
A strange, intriguing title for a book that sets out to intrigue and enchant, showcasing many dishes from the Middle East, North Africa and Mediterranean. Read more
Published 3 months ago by I. Darren
5.0 out of 5 stars A lasting treasure.
This is one of my most treasured books - not just my favourite recipe book.
I bought my copy as a student, and took it with me from place to place over the years. Read more
Published 5 months ago by A Person
5.0 out of 5 stars Better Late Than Never
Why oh why didn't I buy this before? It's brilliant. The recipes are to die for. Buy it - and experience page after page of deliciousness!
Published 7 months ago by Once Upon a Cook
5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous cookery book
A stunning, appetising and entertaining cookery book that provides a range of inspiring recipes with a Mediterranean flavour. Read more
Published 7 months ago by S. Lumley
4.0 out of 5 stars Unusual, Evocative
This is a wonderful cookbook, packed with unsual and massively evocative recipes. Cooking and eating from this book has the potential to take you on a culinary journey -- whether... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Scheherazade
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic. A must!
This is a truly fantastic cookbook that I have returned to time after time since I received it. The recipes come from all over the Mediterranean and the Middle East, from Turkish... Read more
Published 11 months ago by J. Milton
5.0 out of 5 stars A delightful culinary book full of magic!
Having recently read and reviewed Diana Henry's book 'Roast Figs, Sugar Snow' and thoroughly enjoyed it, I was delighted to see that her previous book 'Crazy Water, Pickled Lemons'... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Mara Greenwood
4.0 out of 5 stars great
I really like this book, to me it is more a reader of a cookbook for its evocative writing that inspires as Diana Henry talks about her enthusiasm for travel from her kitchen, and... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Thinker
5.0 out of 5 stars Diana Henry doesn't seem to put a foot wrong......
I adore Diana Henry's books. Her recipes are delicious, well thought out, and (thus far) unfailingly successful. I return to Diana's books time and time again. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Pompom
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