Elizabeth David is the culinary expert of whom many have said that she is the best food writer of all time. Not just a recipe book, but a readable account of French Provincial Cooking, this volume is the ultimate reference on the subject.

Elizabeth Davids classic work on the regional cuisine of France is one of the most inspiring cookery books ever written. It gives simple recipes for timeless dishes such as omelettes, souffles and salads as well as more complex – but equally traditional – ones for pates, cassoulets, roasts and puddings. Hugely readable and informative, French Provincial Cooking is a must for anyone wishing to re–create the flavours of France. Readers are plunged, through the passion and skill of her writing, deep into the sights and scents of the markets and kitchens of rural France. Daily Telegraph

It is difficult to think of any home that can do without Elizabeth Davids FRENCH PROVINCIAL COOKING…One could cook for a lifetime on the book alone – Observer Elizabeth David succeeds in inducing a desire to use each recipe as soon as it is read. Whether she is describing the preparation of a plain green salad, or the marinading of a haunch of wild boar, she writes with the same imaginative directness. Recipes like pot au feu are described in all their delicious simplicity, which, it is made clear, means cooking without elaboration and has nothing to do with the higgledy piggledy lets hope its all right technique. Some excellent advice is included on the choice of the tools that would always be needed in any kitchen.

Elizabeth Davids classic work on the regional cuisine of France is one of the most evocative, inspiring cookery books ever written. It gives simple recipes for timeless dishes such as omelettes, souffles and salads as well as for more complex – but equally traditional – pates, cassoulets, roasts and puddings. Hugely readable and informative, French Provincial Cooking is a must for anyone wishing to re–create the flavours of France.

Author:

Elizabeth David

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9780140273267

Publish Date:

4/1998

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528

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Penguin

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Paperback

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