Good Tempered Food - Hardcover

Day-Lewis, Tamasin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1401352332 ISBN 13: 9781401352332

Publisher: Miramax, 2004

Synopsis

GOOD TEMPERED FOOD is quiet, unhurried, unchaotic cooking to be savoured with its natural accompaniments - conversation, music and a glass of wine. This is old-fashioned, slow cooking - the food we love to eat and cook with a new way to think about it. Preparation, marinating, half-cooking it before time, and adding the last minute touches without feeling stressed. It is what proper cooking is all about. 'This is one of those books that I suspect will never leave my kitchen. I want to eat everything in this book.' Nigel Slater

About this title

Product Description:

A selection of simple but satisfying dishes celebrates the pleasures of cooking--and eating--with 188 recipes, ranging from Baked Cod with Greek Potatoes to Chocolate Mocha Cake with Irish Whiskey, that emphasize advanced preparation and the incorporation of foods into a second or even third meal. 25,000 first printing.

Review:

Saturday's Daily Telegraph cookery columnist, Tamasin Day-Lewis, brings the art and enjoyment back to cooking in Good Tempered Food, aptly subtitled recipes to love, leave and linger over. No fast, quick recipes to be found here. More slow, sedate, innovative, imaginative cooking, enabling the cook to taste and savour every stage of a dish's creation. Some are started days in advance, allowing meat to soak up juices, others will take a morning to prepare. Tamasin's aim is to bring the satisfaction and feeling of creation back to the cook. Overburdened with current advertising campaigns and tv chefs advocating convenience foods, the next generation is in danger of losing the art of cooking. But with recipe books such as this, containing scrumptious dishes such as pancakes layered with pesto and mozzarella di Bufala, 17thcentury Mantuan chicken, chocolate mocha cake with Irish whiskey and spiced three-sugar crumble, there will hopefully be a reversal and people will once again discover the joys of cooking, and eating, proper food. - Lucy Watson --Lucy Watson

About this edition

• Publisher: Miramax
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1401352332
• ISBN 13: 9781401352332
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 286