The recipes and suggestions in this book demonstrate how simple ingredients can be quickly transformed into mini feasts designed to delight the senses.
Recipes for delicious store-cupboard choices drawing on the historical traditions of the well-stocked larder are provided here, drawing on cultures across Europe.
A major addition to the literature of Western cooking, giving the contemporary cook access to the delicious and timeless traditions from the European peasantry past. Illustrated.
Elisabeth Luard has travelled extensively, discovering extraordinary ingredients and cultures. Here, finally, is her enchanting food memoir. Embark on an exhilarating journey through forests, river valleys, islands and deserts: Elisabeth takes you along the Romanian leg of the Danube to the blueberry barrens of Maine and the Ethiopian highlands. With recipes and her own charming illustrations, this book brings alive the tastes, aromas, sights ...
Tapas are little dishes of food that are traditionally served with sherry in southern Spain. This book collects such recipes as salted almonds, bread with olive oil and garlic, salt cod, asparagus with 2 sauces, chicory and blue cheese, mushrooms with garlic and rosemary, aubergine puree, broad beans with ham, tortilla, pickled sardines, and more.
As well as being a unique and wonderfully readable cookery book, Seasonal European Dishes is written with the scrupulous attention to detail and authenticity that is the hallmark of Elisabeth Luard's cookery writing, the recipes are peppered with hundreds of fascinating anecdotes and little known facts about local history and folklore.
Tapas are the wonderfully tempting little dishes of food that are traditionally served with sherry in southern Spain. Beautifully simple, tantalisingly delicious and easy to prepare, they are perfect for all kinds of occasions.
There are over 500 recipes in this classic work from one of the country's most respected food writers. First published in the 1980 and twenty years in the making but unavailable for many years Elisabeth Luard has now revisited the work for the first time since publication to revise, expand and update it.
The world of Latin American cuisine is made available to food enthusiasts with this cookbook that includes old favorites and little-known specialities, such as brownies and tortillas, caipirinha brandy cocktail, and farofa (toasted meal). Familiar ingredients are put to surprising uses while unfamiliar ingredients are introduced and explained. The recipes are accompanied by stunning photographs of both the individual ingredients and the prepar...