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A Platter Of Figs And Other Recipes (2008)

by David Tanis(Favorite Author)

3.92 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1579653464 (ISBN13: 9781579653460)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Artisan

review 1: One of my favorite cookbooks. Tanis combines a lush narrative style with delicious recipes. Half the time I pick the book up just to read through his culinary adventures.I found the recipes fairly easy to follow. A few had ingredients that are hard to come by in the rural South, but could be made with a little ingenuity and adaptation. All the recipes lend themselves to a style of evolutionary cooking (for those of us who can't help but fiddle with a recipe this is a very good thing).I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys good food or books based on food for entertainment reading.
review 2: The author´s writing about food is charming and inspirational - this is something much rarer than what you would think it would be! The photography is beautiful ... morein a minimalist honest-food way. The menus for the most part seem like things I would like to eat.why just 3 stars then? well, there is potential for 4 stars, I think the one true test of a cookbook is after you cook from it and I have not done it yet. Maybe the one true test of a cookbook is if you still cook from it 20 years after you have it, but that seems an unfair standard! So I will reanalyze my rating (numbers, ratings, pfh) of this with time, but I was slightly disappointed with its scope: maybe some 100 recipes, of which some are very simple and well loved basics already (must read carefully for changes in technique but still membrillo, or marmelada as its basic name is, or goiabada with cheese counts as a recipe? baked apples?) and others things I just am not interested in cooking (pork´s ear, things with epazote which I will never find, osso bucco). So in all a bit flimsy. Lovely just the same, but I need to consider if it´s worth the cms it will fill on my reduced cookbook shelfspace. less

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