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Title: Parisian Home Cooking : Conversations, Recipes, And Tips From The Cooks And Food Merchants Of Paris by Michael Roberts ISBN: 0688138683 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: June, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75
Rating: 5
Summary: A New Approach to Cooking
Comment: I love this book! I especially enjoyed all of the "philosophy" on cooking, eating and enjoying life.
The world needs more cookbooks like this: ones that emphasize quality and simplicity. Thank you Michael Roberts for suggesting that we all try to cook only simple meals during the week!
Rating: 5
Summary: How to Enjoy Every day ' It's Easier Than You Think!
Comment: Michael Roberts, the author, writes in the introduction to his book as though he were speaking to you at a small, outdoor table at a local café' while dunking a biscotti into his espresso. His message is simple and insightful. His advice is worth hearing.
To begin with, you should know that Michael Roberts moved to Paris in 1975 and earned his professional certificate from the Ecole Superieure de Cuisine Jean-Ferrandi. He lived and worked in Paris before returning to the U.S. and opening his own restaurant Trumps in Los Angeles in 1980. He has since that time returned to Paris for several extended visits. He brought his experiences of everyday life in Paris to this book that reveals how the average, working person in Paris shops for food and prepares meals at home. In his introduction to the book, you instantly recognize yourself because he explains how people in the everyday Parisian culture share virtually the same food varieties, cooking equipment, busy schedules and lack of time that people in every other metropolitan area of the world also share.
The discovery that I made is based upon an admission by the author in the opening of his book when he speaks of his youth and says 'The realization that I had learned to cook but not to nourish, that I hadn't grasped the gastronomic world of the average Parisian, disheartened me.' So, he set upon a course to correct that oversight and wrote about his experiences that revolve around one simple philosophy from which we can all profit. 'You start with fine ingredients. You cook things in a way that coaxes out the flavors. No need to complicate a recipe with many ingredients, because they only end up fighting each other. ' Let the ingredients speak to you.' He goes on to say 'The charm of a French meal lies in their insistence on quality ingredients and balanced flavor, in respecting those ingredients by not overcomplicating the cooking.' I enjoyed and wholeheartedly agree with his comments that shopping for flavorful ingredients should be a delight, not a chore; that cooking delicious meals doesn't really take very long; that the resulting enjoyment breaks up the tension of the day from which we can all benefit; that the devotion to this splendid ritual of eating well should become part of the rhythm of life; and, finally, that families who share this pattern of living will pass on the gift of memories of yesterday so that familiar flavors or aromas will 'unlock the memory of childhood, ' what most Parisians do nearly every time they sit down at the table.'
The book's 175 recipes that reflect the author's philosophies are easy to prepare and suit a variety of tastes for various courses of a meal, including soups, salads, entrees, and desserts. My copy of the book has already shown wear on its edges and stains on its most used pages which, if you will pardon the expression, speaks volumes about what I think of this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Cooking Fiend and Francophile is Right...
Comment: ...everything I make from this book is truly delicious and , may I add, nutritious. Parisian Home Cooking teaches us that the value of fresh and diverse ingredients, simply prepared is the core of true health; dishes that yearn to be enjoyed amoung friends and actually leave you energy to enjoy their company! I just love the woman who refuses to spend more than fifteen minutes at her stove yet serves up divine dinners; the butcher's timeless admonition that for the body to work it must have some fat - how avant; the tips that coax real flavor from simple foods - to "sweeten" the vinegar for the perfect vinaigrette by adding a splash of wine (just one tip of many). As the diet gurus duke it out for your dollars, look at the slim, healthy Parisians in the photographs, read what they eat at home, and you will toss out the crazed American diet fads with relief. This book will feed you. It's also a good read. Move over Dr. Ornish and Monsieur Pepin - the secret is out!
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Title: The Paris Cookbook by Patricia Wells ISBN: 0060184698 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 23 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: The Zuni Cafe Cookbook: A Compendium of Recipes and Cooking Lessons from San Francisco's Beloved Restaurant by Judy Rodgers, Gerald Asher ISBN: 0393020436 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 23 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: On Rue Tatin: Living and Cooking in a French Town by Susan Herrmann Loomis ISBN: 0767904559 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 30 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Paris Cafe Cookbook : Rendezvous and Recipes from 50 Best Cafes by Dan Young ISBN: 0688153305 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Walking Paris : Thirty Original Walks In and Around Paris by Gilles Desmons ISBN: 0844201413 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 11 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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