Saffron and Sunshine - Hardcover

Luard, Elisabeth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0593043030 ISBN 13: 9780593043035

Publisher: Bantam Press, 2000

Synopsis

Nearly 300 simple, classic Mediterranean dishes are collected together in this cookbook. It includes easy to follow recipes, grouped together according to the principal ingredient, and in every case, complementary dishes are recommended.

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From the Back Cover

Holidays in the sun and visits to Spanish tapas bars and Greek and Turkish restaurants have made us familiar with a way of eating that is remote from the formalities of the three- or four-course lunch or dinner. Those appetizing displays of little dishes, hot and cold, laid out all at once on the table to be dipped into at will - tapas, mezze, antipasti - under whatever name, are less a cuisine and more a way of life. They are food for sharing, offering endless possibilities of cooking single dishes or combining many, some familiar, some new and enticing. Either way, they present a leisurely choice of plenty without excess, of simple perfection without a trace of pretentiousness.

The dishes that comprise these sociable little feasts from the countries along the shores of the Mediterranean have slight variations from place to place and appear under many different names, but they are linked by common traditions and techniques - not least the use of saffron, the edible sunshine that gives many of them their flavour and colour. With the combination of richly evocative description and practical guidance that has made her earlier books modern cookery classics, Elisabeth Luard presents mouthwatering recipes for over 300 of them. They are grouped in chapters according to the principal ingredient, but in every case she recommends complementary dishes for balance and variety.

Saffron & Sunshine contains all the hallmarks of Elisabeth Luard's cookery writing, with delicious, authentic recipes based on the very best simple ingredients. It also offers great flexibility for cooks to serve up excellent food in today's more relaxed, informal style of entertaining at home. Food for vegetarians, slimmers, supper dishes or multiple feasts - all is here in a magnificent collection of recipes to be savoured by both armchair cooks and real cooks.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0593043030
• ISBN 13: 9780593043035
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320