French Country Cooking

Name: French Country Cooking
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
SKU: 9780140299779
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By Elizabeth David

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Summary

French Country Cooking by Elizabeth David is a classic that explores the heart and soul of rustic French cuisine. It offers a delightful journey through traditional recipes, drawing inspiration from French villages and incorporating seasonal ingredients. The book captures the essence of French cooking with an emphasis on authentic flavour and simplicity.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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You might enjoy this book if you're drawn to the rustic charm and hearty flavours of rural French cuisine. It offers a delightful exploration of traditional recipes, capturing the essence of French country life and culinary tradition, perfect for those who love cooking with authentic ingredients and techniques.

French Country Cooking

Features recipes drawn from across the regions of France. Showing how each area has a particular and flavour for its foods, derived as they are from local ingredients, this title explores the astonishing diversity of French cuisine.

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Full of authentic recipes, this evocative book describes some of the splendid regional cookery of France. The food of each area has its own particular flavour, derived naturally from local resources.

French Country Cooking shows the immense diversity of the cuisine through recipes that range from the primitive peasant soup of the Basque country to the refined Burgundian dish of hare with a cream sauce and chestnut puree.

There is also advice on suitable cooking utensils and the use of wine in the kitchen.

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French Country Cooking by Elizabeth David is praised for its deep respect and thoughtful consideration of food. The Sunday Times highlights the author's attentive and caring approach, noting the book's remarkable quality.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780140299779

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 26 April 2001

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 151g

Pages: 208

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Cook Books & Recipes Cooking & Food Elizabeth David Non-Fiction Penguin Books

About the Author

Elizabeth David (1913-1992) travelled widely during the Second World War, throughout Europe, the Middle East and India. She returned to England in 1946 to write the classic Mediterranean Food, followed by five other books that all became bestsellers. Also a prolific journalist, she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1982, and a CBE in 1986.

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