The Old World Kitchen: The Rich Tradition of European Peasant Cooking

· Melville House
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About this ebook

“The best cookbook no one’s ever heard of.”
—Mark Bittman, former New York Times food columnist

“One of the great cookbooks of all time.”
The Mail on Sunday

The rediscovered classic cookbook on the essentials of authentic, back-to-basics European cuisine—with over 300 recipes from 25 countries, including France, Spain, Greece, Italy, and more

Award-winning food writer Elisabeth Luard joyously salutes the foundations of modern Western cooking with recipes collected during more than 25 years of travel and research, many of them spent living in rural France, Spain, Greece, Ireland, and Italy. Divided into 14 sections, The Old World Kitchen includes recipes for:
 
• Vegetable Dishes
Potato Dishes
Corner Cupboard Dishes
Noodles and Dough-Based Dishes
Barnyard and Dairy
Fish and Seafood
Poultry
Small Game
Pork
Shepherd’s Meats
Beef, Reindeer, and Grilled Meats
Breads and Yeast Pastries
Sweet Dishes
The Rustic Kitchen
 
This definitive collection of over 300 time-tested recipes from 25 European countries is an indispensable guide to the simple, delicious, and surprisingly exotic dishes of peasant Europe.

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About the author

ELISABETH LUARD is an award-winning food writer, journalist, and broadcaster. She is the author of ten cookbooks, including The Latin American Kitchen, The Food of Spain and Portugal, A Cook's Year in a Welsh Kitchen; three volumes of memoir, Family Life, Still Life, and My Life as a Wife; and two novels. Her thirteen-part television series, The Rich Tradition, was broadcast on BBC2 and SBS Australia. She spent many years living in rural Spain, France, and Italy, and traveling across Europe collecting recipes, many of which are collected in The Old World Kitchen. Her work as a journalist appears regularly in The Daily Mail, The Scotsman, Country Living, Cambria Magazine, The Jewish Chronicle, and The Times Literary Supplement. She is currently Trustee Director of The Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, contributes a monthly column to The Oldie Magazine, and is a member of the team at online culinary magazine Zester Daily.

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