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Roast Figs, Sugar Snow: Food to Warm the Soul by: Diana Henry List Price: £12.99 City Travel Guides Price: £8.44 You Save: £4.55 (35%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9781845334529 ISBN: 1845334523 Label: Mitchell Beazley Manufacturer: Mitchell Beazley Number Of Pages: 192 Publication Date: September 15, 2008 Publisher: Mitchell Beazley Studio: Mitchell Beazley Sales Rank: 11989 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: The Guardian: âA lovely collection of winter recipesâ The Spectator, December 3, 2005: A new Diana Henry book is an occasion. Her dishes are never less than delicious. Wine International, January 2006: Henry's evocative prose and Jason Lowe's beautiful photography with smatterings of wintry poetry, make this ideal for a Christmas gift. Time Out, November, 30, 2005: This book seduces with its attractive design and Jason Lowe's stunning photography. It's refreshingly different. Vogue, January 2006: Enchanting winter dishes. House & Garden, December 2005: Diana Henry offers temptingly illustrated, innovative dishes. Book Description: Winter cooking comes with its own unique pleasures. Shutting the door on the rain, snow and cold outside, to gather around the stove and cook for friends and family brings an all-encompassing feeling of warmth. Diana Henry has put together an irresistible collection of enchanting winter dishes from the Northern Hemisphere that celebrate the magical and evocative nature of winter foods. Food is as much to do with the imagination as it is with flavour. A dish is more than a collection of ingredients. Diana’s quest for foods from the colder climates was inspired by the memory of ‘sugar snow’ from her childhood reading. Sugar snow is made by tapping the sap of a maple trees in snowy conditions. If the temperature went below freezing at night but above freezing during the day, the sap turns into sticky amber syrup, by pouring it on to snow - there it sets to a cobwebby toffee. Here was a magical food that you could get from inside a tree and make into sweets. This book isn’t just about ingredients. It’s also about weather and the seasons, and the kind of food we want to want to eat and cook in colder months. Life slows down and so does cooking. Diana Henry has spent five years travelling, and eating in search of the tastiest dishes from the snowiest climates -exploring many cold climate countries from Georgia, Austria; Switzerland; Hungary and Scandinavia to Northern Italy; America and France collecting recipes as she went. In Roast Figs Sugar Snow this unique collection of recipes celebrates some of the worlds most overlooked cuisines by using produce that can be found on our doorsteps. ‘Snow Food’ uses much the same basic autumn and winter produce as we do in the UK – root vegetables and brassicas, orchard fruits, pork, game and cheese – but their flavour combinations are different. The dill in Scandinavia brings a breath of chill air and pine forests to the table; the pairing of horseradish with pork, as in Austria and Russia, makes you see the potential of a root we only bring out for roast beef; peppers and tomatoes cooked with blood-red paprika produces a Hungarian ratatouille that is more suited to winter consumption than the Mediterranean version. Diana lets us taste and experience this traditional home-cooking from all over the snowy world, there are potato and cheese dishes from Italy’s skiing slopes, pastries from the coffee houses of Vienna and Budapest, and little appetizers that have been eaten at Russian celebrations since the days of Tsar. Classic ingredients such as nutty-fleshed pumpkins, earthy wild mushrooms and pungent cheeses sit alongside less commonly used foods such as cranberries, quinces and juniper berries in this beautiful wintry book Synopsis: The author has spent 5 years travelling and eating in search of the tastiest dishes from the snowiest climes, resulting in an irresistible collection of dishes from North America and Northern Europe. This unique collection of recipes celebrates some of the world's most overlooked cuisines by using produce that can be found on our own doorsteps. There are potato and cheese dishes from Italy's skiing slopes, pastries from the coffee houses of Vienna and Budapest, and little appetizers that have been eaten at Russian celebrations since the days of the Tsar. These recipes will bring warmth to your heart as well as your home. Customer Reviews
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 Rating: - FantasticThere are not many books that I would cook a whole dinner party from without doing a trial run. This is the only one I can think of. I totally respect Diana Henry for her brilliant, beautiful book and her delicious recipes. Really she is far more reliable than Jamie Oliver and Nigella Lawson, and in fact surpasses Delia Smith too in my opinion. Absolutely delicious. Try the roast squash with porcini cream. Very, very easy, sublimely delicious. Rating: - Stunningly beautifulThis cookbook didn't seem to get the recognition it deserved. As Diana Henry isn't of the "celebrity chef" culture, it's no wonder why. A shame, as it's one of the most beautiful cookbooks I've ever seen and one of my personal treasures. In her wonderful recipes and photos she captures New England, and especially the Vermont of my childhood, perfectly. Rating: - BeautifulThis is a beautiful book , the photography is stunning and all the recipes just make you want to cook everything in the book. Rating:  - Looking forward to Winter`A truly unique collection of wintry recipes which celebrate some of the world's most overlooked cuisines by using produce that can be found on our own doorsteps`. Although winter cooking seems so far from these BBQ days of mid-Summer, `Roast Figs, Sugar Snow' makes us look towards the winter with real warmth! `Beef Pie with Wild Mushrooms and Claret`, followed by `Peasant Girls in a Mist', a cake with apples and cinnamon or a 'snow biscuit' - just whets your appetite for winter reading and cooking! Cooking in winter is about keeping warm on the inside, as you gather friends and family around the kitchen Aga. The result of five years of travel and research, Diana compiled this book of recipes ... Read More: Rating: - Beautiful!!A fabulous book about the food we want to cook when it's cold outside. The food is from New England, Quebec, Scandinavia, Russia, north-west Europe and other places where the winters can be fiercely cold. I haven't cooked from it yet, but there are so many things I want to cook from it: Georgian Cheese-pies, Tartiflette, Russian Curd Cheese pancakes, Russian Zakuski, Peasant Girls in a Mist (a cake with apples/cinnamon; originally Scandinavian), The Dartmoor Inn's apple bread, Beef Pie with wild mushrooms and claret....in fact, I want to cook everything in this book - which is rare for me! Not only does it all sound delicious, but the recipes seem easy and straightforward, the kind of food you actually cook at home. The book is beautiful ... Read More: |
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