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Title: The Paris Cafe Cookbook : Rendezvous and Recipes from 50 Best Cafes by Daniel Young ISBN: 0-688-15330-5 Publisher: Morrow Cookbooks Pub. Date: 04 November, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Could have been much more evocative
Comment: Daniel Young has two different purposes at work in this book, and they don't always seem to go together so well. On the one hand, he wants to give us a representative sampling of café cuisine, so we can recreate at home the tastes and smells of the Paris café experience. And here, I think, he succeeds admirably.
At the same time, however, he is also attempting to present us with something of a portrait of café culture -- a celebration, in the words of the introduction, "of what makes this institution so worth preserving." No less, the author hopes that after reading his book, we "should be prepared to choose a regular Parisian café to call your own." Frankly, I don't think he achieves this second goal nearly so well.
This book is divided, in standard cookbook fashion, by categories of food -- appetizers, entrees, and so on. Cafés are presented within each section based on the representative recipe Young has chosen from its menu. If more than one selection comes from a given café, however, they appear on different pages, sometimes widely separated. While the virtue of this approach is unmistakable for a cookbook, it does make it a bit more difficult to consider any given café.
While the writing about each café is generally pretty good, I didn't find the text-heavy layout and two-color photography particularly inviting. And for a book that's supposed to help us choose a café or two of our own, I was very disappointed that there were so few photos ... and that the ones that there were, were so often less than evocative. If Daniel Young's descriptive writing could be combined with the wonderful photography of Marie-France Boyer's "The French Café" (Thames & Hudson, 1994), *that* would be a book to treasure.
In all, your opinion of this book will be colored by what you hope to get out of it. If, like some of the other reviewers on this page, you want to cook authentic and memorable café offerings in your own home, then this is probably just what you're looking for. But if you're searching for something that captures the mystique and romance of the café culture, then "The Paris Café Cookbook," while unquestionably a good start in that direction, will still leave a bit more to be desired.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Recipes
Comment: The recipes from the book are truly delightful. I've made several of them over the past two years. This book is well-written and does justice to a cook outside France, by providing reasonable substitutions. Once while in Paris, I decided to compare the recipe results against the actual dishes at the cafes in the book. Surprisingly, the food tasted and looked very similar. The desserts are especially delicious - Mousse au Chocolat, Profiteroles au Chocolat, Peach Cake with Strawberry Sauce, Creme Brulee, Pear Clafoutis ... ummm!
Rating: 5
Summary: I live in Paris, and have never had bad meal with this book
Comment: I live in Paris and know hundreds of restaurants, but Dan Young's wonderful book has led me to wonderful places I never would have found, or have passed by dozens of times without a thought of going inside. I've never had a bad meal with Mr. Young's book, and every new choice is an adventure. As he says in his introdion: finding a greate expensive restaurant is easy, but finding value and wonderful food is a real art. Eat well!
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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: Paris Bistro Cooking by Linda Dannenberg ISBN: 0517574330 Publisher: Clarkson Potter Pub. Date: 23 October, 1991 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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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: Morrow Cookbooks Pub. Date: 02 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: The French Cafe by Marie-France Boyer, Eric Morin ISBN: 0500016224 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: November, 1994 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Bistro Cooking by Patricia Wells, Judy Kleiber Jones ISBN: 0894806238 Publisher: Workman Publishing Company Pub. Date: November, 1989 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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