In Praise Of The Potato: Recipes From Around The World - Softcover

Bareham, Lindsey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140270930 ISBN 13: 9780140270938

Publisher: Penguin, 1998

DELICIOUSLY VERSATILE, THE POTATO CAN BE EXOTIC, ELEGANT PLAIN OR TRADITIONAL. IT MARRIES PERFECTLY WITH ANY NUMBER OF HERBS AND SPICES, IT IS COMFORTING, CHEAP AND UBIQUITOUS. ITS NUTRITIONAL QUALITIES HAVE AT LAST BEEN ACKNOWLEDGED AND, NOT LEAST OF ALL, IT IS EXTREMELY TASTY - AS THIS HOST OF RECIPES FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD SHOWS. LINDSEY BAREHAM GIVES DEFINITIVE VERSIONS OF ALL THE COOKING METHODS AND NUMEROUS UNEXPECTED VARIATIONS ON THE THEMES. THEN SHE OFFERS A FEAST OF APPETISERS, SOUPS, SALADS, LUNCH, SIDE AND DINNER DISHES, IDEAS OF LEFTOVERS, STUFFINGS, SAUCES, BUNS, CAKES, BREADS AND DRINKS. THIS IS AN EXHAUSTIVE ANTHOLOGY RANGING FROM TIME-HONOURED AND NURSERY FAVOURITES TO MORE ESOTERIC, POSITIVELY SURPRISING FOREIGN CONCOCTIONS FROM SUCH FAR- FLUNG CORNERS AS THE LEBANON, TUNISIA, THAILAND AND PERU. SOME OF THE RECIPES COME DIRECTLY FROM FAMOUS RECIPES, OTHERS ARE ADAPTIONS OF ONES BY SUCH MASTERS AS ELIZABETH DAVID, JANE GRIGSON AND THE ROUX BROTHERS. THIS STAPLE VEGETABLE IS ASTONISHING IN ITS ADAPTABILITY AND THIS IS A DELIGHTFULLY LIVELY BOOK FULL OF INFORMATION.

About the Author:

Lindsey Bareham is one of the UK's most talented cookery writers. Her daily after-work recipe column for the Evening Standard ran for 8 years and she currently writes the much-loved 'Dinner Tonight' column for The Times. The author of 13 cookery books, including In Praise of the Potato, A Celebration of Soup, The Big Red Book of Tomatoes, The Fish Store and The Trifle Bowl and Other Tales, Lindsey also co-wrote The Prawn Cocktail Yearswith Simon Hopkinson, and helped him write Roast Chicken and Other Stories, voted the Most Useful Cookery Book Ever by chefs and food writers.

Synopsis:

Lindsey Bareham offers a feast of appetizers, soups, salads, lunch, side and dinner dishes, ideas of leftovers, stuffings, sauces, buns, cakes, breads and drinks, all made with, or including, potatoes.

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0140270930
• ISBN 13: 9780140270938
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320