A Tale of 12 Kitchens: Family Cooking in Four Countries - Softcover

Tilson, Jake

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1579653200 ISBN 13: 9781579653200

Publisher: Artisan, 2006

Synopsis

A culinary journey in search of the finest examples of family cookery in the U.S., France, Italy, and Britain describes the author's cooking adventures and includes more than seventy-five recipes from such disparate locales as Southern California, New York's Lower East Side, Tuscany, the Algerian quarter in Paris, and Scotland.

About this title

From the Back Cover

This is a cookbook with a difference. Every aspect has been created by artist and passionate cook Jake Tilson. As author, photographer, designer, typographer and cook, he has brought an entirely new vision to food, its context, the way it is grown, packaged, bought and cooked and the memories and emotions it evokes.

From the Inside Flap

Reading this remarkable cookbook-cum-scrapbook by Jake Tilson is like encountering a wonderful friend you haven't seen in years, and setting off together on a culinary journey through four countries to cook and have myriad happy experiences, and meet scores of fascinating people along the way.

It might be a monk singing an awe-inspiring rendition of "Ave Maria" in a family-run restaurant in Cortona, Italy, or a master pancake flipper at a breakfast haven in New York City. Or a recipe for the divine gnocchi-like spinach dumplings served in Tuscany.

With eighty recipes that are far-ranging and delicious, you'll learn to make black beans the Dominican way, couscous in the Tunisian fashion, and burritos flavored with Mexican beer and a chipotle chile.

And as you cook your way through his book, you'll fall in love with Jake's artistic family and their obsession with cooking and eating. Great characters all and, like many of us, as likely to spend their vacations wandering food markets as museums, then returning home with overweight luggage crammed full of local foods.

Anyone who thinks twice about tossing out a food can with a great label, who treasures stubs and receipts from travel for the experiences they evoke, or who feels nostalgic for kitchens of the past, will find a kindred soul in these pages.

And if you're someone without an urge to collect, or who'd just as soon stay and cook closer to home, you will be every bit as delighted with this dazzling collection of recipes.

Tilson presents his recipes in a remarkably original way. Subtly embedded in his wonderful descriptions, in tales told in his very engaging prose, is the reminder that cooking, sharing and eating meals with family and friends is of utmost importance in our lives.

Edition details

• Publisher: Artisan
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1579653200
• ISBN 13: 9781579653200
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256