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Title: The Great New American Writers Cookbook by Dean Faulkner Wells ISBN: 1-57806-589-5 Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Absolutely brilliant!
Comment: I must confess that since the advent of the Internet, I have not found it necessary to buy many cookbooks (sorry, authors), because the recipe for just about anything can be found on the virtual Web, but this book caught my eye, went on my Amazon Wish List and was received for Christmas. What an absolute treat! The recipes as such are almost secondary in this book, because the point is that all of them have been contributed by American authors, including such jaw-dropping talents as Pete Dexter and Elmore Leonard. And Jay McInerney and E. Annie Proulx. And many more. Now, as one who likes to cook and has by dint of circumstance done so in Eastern Europe for more than a decade now, I find a distressing reliance in some of these recipes on such things as Campbell's soups. With the possible exception of the most detailed bisques and, perhaps, Bouillabaisse, soup is so easy and wonderful to cook at home that there should be no excuse for this. But I digress. The true joy to this book is the writing which accompanies many of the recipes. Thus, for instance, you would never find this ingredient in the oeuvre of Julia Childs:
1 lb. turkey hearts (Do not attempt to collect individually - very messy and inconvenient to the turkeys)
Or instructions such as this; "Now serve with rice and, on the side, a well-iced can of Pabst Blue Ribbon, one per guest, with extra in the icebox. Without the Pabst is okay, but not true Appalachian".
This is a book which would be appropriate not just for those who spend lots of time in the kitchen, but to anyone who enjoys American literature. There's enough for both kinds of people (and I'll bet lots of Amazon users correspond to both descriptions). I can't recommend this book more highly!
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Title: The Book Lover's Cookbook by Shaunda Kennedy Wenger, Janet Kay Jensen ISBN: 0345465008 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 14 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading by Sara Nelson ISBN: 0399150838 Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons Pub. Date: 09 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Queen of the Turtle Derby and Other Southern Phenomena by JULIA REED ISBN: 0679409041 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 06 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Islam Without Illusions: Its Past, Its Present, and Its Challenge for the Future (CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN THE MIDDLE EAST) by Edward Hotaling, Ed Hotaling ISBN: 0815607660 Publisher: Syracuse University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Tale of the Scale: An Odyssey of Invention by Solly Angel ISBN: 0195158687 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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