|
Book Lists by Program
Morning Edition
All Things Considered
Talk Of The Nation
Tavis Smiley Show
The World
Favorite Subjects
Home & Garden
Cooking
Travel
NPR Music Guides
Travel Books & Guides
Ideas in Reading
About Us
|
Fast Food My Way
Jacques Pépin
Houghton Mifflin Hardcover, 224pp $30.00
Add To Cart
I'm falling in love again. Culinary love, that is, and the recipient of my adulation will come as no surprise to the cooks who use his many wonderful cookbooks and to the food aficionados who are instructed and inspired by his many PBS series. Nobody does it better than Jacques Pépin: he's a master chef and a master at conveying his love of food to others. The recipes in Jacques Pépin: Fast Food My Way are easy and elegant dishes you'll want to add to your everyday repertoire and to your canon of dinner party classics. It's not a big book, but there are more keepers here than I've found in a long time. I made the Chicken Tonnato (poached chicken breasts coated with a velvety tuna/anchovy sauce) first and knew immediately that, after making this dish for years from lots of different recipes, I'd found the finest—and the fastest. Then I tried the Oven-Baked Salmon with Sun-Dried Tomato and Salsa Mayonnaise—divine and divinely easy (you cook the fish on its serving plate in a slow oven and can make the sauce well in advance). Pork chops in a zesty tomato-olive sauce is a winning dish, as is Broccoli Rabe and Pea Fricassee, Pumpkin Soup with Toasted Walnuts and bubbling Egg and Tomato Gratin. There are appetizers, salads and desserts, menus, make-ahead tips and extra ideas for quick dishes so uncomplicated that recipes are unnecessary. This "tribute to very simple food" is simply sensational. - Sybill Pratt
© 2004, All rights reserved, BookPage
|
|
|
| |
Have you joined the Book Club?
Welcome
Fiction
Mystery
Cooking
Biography
Children's Books
Travel
Home & Garden
The Arts
Health & Healing
Current Events
Science & Nature
History
The Classics
|
