THE COOK'S ENCYCLOPEDIA, Ingredients & Processes
STOBART, Tom; Edited By Millie Owen
Language: English
Published by Harper & Row, NY, 1981
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: J. W. Mah, Burnaby, BC, CanadaJ. W. Mah
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Condition: Used - Near fine
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(USA) First Printing No markings, Fine in clipped Very Good Dj with crease to front falps and just a hint of sunning to the spine. Dj is in mylar sleeve. Thick 8vo, navy cloth, xii, 547pp. A few line dawings.A few recipes are included. A serious and important work of reference, but also extremely readable. A must for the cook. Entries from Abalone (in which the author notes that "in Japan, abalone fishing is done by almost naked girls called ama who went down to a depth of 40 feet wearing no more than a G-string.") to Zucchini, edited and amplified for American readers by Millie Owen. Elizabeth David says that this book is "an important work of reference. It is also vastly entertaining". (3.0 JM HOJ 304/a2 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Seller Inventory # 49688
- Title
- THE COOK'S ENCYCLOPEDIA, Ingredients & Processes
- Author
- STOBART, Tom; Edited By Millie Owen
- Publisher
- Harper & Row, NY
- Publication year
- 1981
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0060141271
- ISBN 13
- 9780060141271
- Edition
- 1st.
- Seller catalogs
- Food Writing and General Cookbooks
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Review
Cooking processes are explained in great and illuminating detail. The aim is both to entertain and to instruct--in particular, to give a sense of the essence and individuality of each ingredient. Tom Stobart has travelled widely, both as an explorer and a film maker, and his book is everywhere informed by an eye for telling details and an ability to evoke the background and context of the ingredients he describes. One of the reasons why the book came to be written, he points out in his Introduction, is his love of open-air markets around the world.
The very comprehensiveness of The Cook's Encyclopaedia invites one to play a kind of game, finding items that haven't been included. Sea cucumber? "...a holothurian, a roughly sausage-shaped relative of the sea-anemone..." Oh, all right, then. Carageen? "...a tufted and fan-like seaweed..." Isinglass? "..an equivalent of gelatine made from the swim-bladders of sturgeon..." This is an endlessly fascinating and browsable book. Nigella? "A plain-looking species of love-in-the-mist with creamy flowers..."--Robin Davidson
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