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Title: Italian Food by Elizabeth David, Julia Child ISBN: 0141181559 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: April, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2
Rating: 3
Summary: This is literature
Comment: I am not really sure about the audience and the purpose of the book... not true... I have got some suspicions and they don't go down that well with me...
The original edition (it was re-worked a little in the mid-eighties) was written for a British audience still suffering from food rationing (which continued until about 1954, the British won the war and lost the peace, and even unto this day any football game against Germany is billed as a re-enactment of World War 2) and from the lack of a national cuisine (no, baked beans is not the national British dish, just a watered-down version of Boston beans, and those are quite nice when properly done).
As one would expect, the book is addressed to those who know what they are doing in their kitchen and have all the time in the world ("roast the chicken in the usual way", all the vagaries found in Apicius, take such-and-such, it must be fresh and don't dare overcook the rice), but then someone who knows what he is doing wouldn't need the advice offered. (Except if they are British, of course, and have never tasted proper food.)
It must be literature, then, but it is very conscious of itself and its status as a classic, the references to ewe mutton are still there and are now references to "ewe mutton, should you ever have to deal with it", and that is that kind of self-conscious pretentiousness I just hate. The Guttuso illustrations are sadly missing, careless editing has seen to that, the references in the text are stil present as dangling pointers.
Rating: 5
Summary: Absolutely The Best Book on Traditional Italian Food
Comment: I've been carrying around my 1969 Penguin editon of Elizabeth David's book for over 30 years. It's now a wreck - it's been used so much! It is absolutely the best book I have read (and used constantly) that describes the art of cooking Italian food. Great descriptions of Italian (including regional) ingredients and really easy to follow practical menus. I was so delighted to learn that a new edition of this marvelous book (first published in 1954!) was available.
Rating: 4
Summary: A GEM
Comment: I bought this book shortly after purchasing her French cooking book. This book, in combination with the above mentioned French book and her Summer Cooking, are THE Elizabeth David books. No one who is serious about fine cuisine should be without these classics. The food is simple and stunning.
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Title: French Provincial Cooking (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Elizabeth David, Julia Child ISBN: 0141181532 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: A Book of Mediterranean Food (New York Review Books Classics) by Elizabeth David, Clarissa Dickson Wright, John W. Minton ISBN: 1590170032 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Summer Cooking (New York Review Books Classics) by Elizabeth David, Molly O'Neil, Adrian Daintrey, Molly O'Neill ISBN: 1590170040 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: An Omelette and a Glass of Wine by Elizabeth David ISBN: 1558215719 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: March, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: South Wind Through the Kitchen: The Best of Elizabeth David by Elizabeth David, Jill Norman ISBN: 086547575X Publisher: North Point Press Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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