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"'A remarkable book.... food is treated with reverence, with understanding and, above all, with care' - Sunday Times"
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'Her books are stunningly well written ... full of history and anecdote' Observer
French Country Cooking - first published in 1951 - is filled with authentic and splendid recipes drawn from across the regions of France. Showing how each area has a particular and unique flavour for its foods, derived as they are from local ingredients, Elizabeth David explores the astonishing diversity of French cuisine.
Her recipes range from the primitive pheasant soup of the Basque country to the refined Burgundian dish of hare with cream sauce and chestnut puree. This rich and enticing book will delight and inspire cooks everywhere.
Elizabeth David is the woman who changed the face of British cooking. She introduced post-war Britain to the sun-drenched delights of the Mediterranean and her recipes brought new flavours and aromas into kitchens across Britain.
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You can taste the food as you read recipes and anecdotes,
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This review is from: French Country Cooking (Cookery Library) (Paperback)
As with all of Elizabeth David's books, this is not a list of weights and measures, but of ingredients and expected results.This is not a book for kids in a hurry, as you need to read it as a gastronomic autobiography first, and then go back and try the recipes. In style it has the prose style of a "Miss Jean Brodie" with the "chuck in a bit of this and that" of Jamie Oliver! Above all she perfectly describes the robust tastes and smells of rural French cuisine.
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Traditional recipes from the saviour of english cooking.,
By crispycat@potluck8.fsnet.co.uk (Watton, Norfolk) - See all my reviews
This review is from: French Country Cooking (Cookery Library) (Mass Market Paperback)
Elizabeth David's books have this incredible ability to send you to the supermarket.The recipes in French Country Cooking are exactly as the title proclaims simple peasant style country dishes.Yet as ever David wrote in a vivid but impatient style,almost demanding to know why we didn't eat in this hearty flavoursome style and what we were going to do about it.Do what i did ,buy the book and start cooking.
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Elizabeth David's Gift to Posterity,
This review is from: French Country Cooking (Cookery Library) (Paperback)
French Country Cooking complements her four major works as available in splendid Folio editions. For anyone genuinely interested in the culinary arts will discover in this book a wealth of material and recipes for country dishes which provide the inspiration - as Miss David wanted - for one's own experimentation in the kitchen. She provides, posthumously, starter ideas for the individual either to follow or to develop according to his/her own tastes. She is for the twentieth century, and our own, what Hannah Glasse, Eliza Acton and Isabella Beeton were to the nineteenth century - incomparably rich in sound ideas.
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