Elizabeth David

A Book of Mediterranean Food

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This tasty book ushers in cooking's modern era, emphasizing fresh ingredients and the idea that good food need not be the exclusive province of the master chef. "A Book of Mediterranean Food" includes recipes David collected when she lived in France, Italy, Greece, and Egypt. Illustrations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New York Review of Books
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 202mm x 128mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 227g
• ISBN-13: 9781590170038
• ISBN-10: 1590170032
• Artikelnr.: 21389947

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth David (1913-1992) was brought up in an outwardly idyllic seventeenth-century Sussex farmhouse, Wootton Manor, and her interest in cooking may well have been a response to the less-than-stellar meals on offer there. During World War II she lived in France, Italy, Greece, and Egypt (where she worked for the Ministry of Information), and spent much of her time researching and cooking local fare. On her return to London in 1946, David began to write cooking articles, and in 1949 the publisher John Lehmann offered her a hundred-pound advance for A Book of Mediterranean Food. When it came out the following year, it proved a revelation to Anglo-Saxon appetites. Summer Cooking (1955, also published by NYRB Classics) consolidated her position as the foremost food writer of her day. David continued to be a student of her art throughout her life. Always an innovative force, she even persuaded Le Creuset to extend its range of cookware colors by pointing at a pack of Gauloises. "That's the blue I want," she said. Elizabeth David was awarded a CBE, made a Chevalier de l'Ordre de Mérite Agricole, and--the honor that pleased her most--elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Clarissa Dickson Wright is best known as half of TV's Two Fat Ladies duo and cowrote that series' cookbooks. Her other books include The Haggis: A Little History (1996) and Food: What We Eat and How We Eat (1999).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Introduction
2. Preface 1: Preface to the Penguin Edition
3.
* Preface 2: Preface to the Second Revised Penguin Edition
4. Introduction 2: Introduction to the 1988 Edition
5.
* 1: Table of Equivalent Gas and Electric Oven Temperatures
* 2: Table of Equivalent American Measurements
* 3: Liquid Measurements
6. Part 1: Soups
7. Part 2: Eggs and Luncheon Dishes
8.
* 1: Snails
9. Part 3: Fish
10.
* 1: Shell Fish
* 2: Sea and Freshwater Fish
* 3: Octopus and Cuttlefish
11. Part 4: Meat
12.
* 1: Veal
* 2: Lamb and Mutton
* 3: Beef
* 4: Pork
* 5: Kid
* 6: Boar
13. Part 5: Substantial Dishes
14. Part 6: Poultry and Game
15.
* 1: Hare and Rabbit
16. Part 7: Vegetables
17. Part 8: Cold Food and Salads
18.
* 1: Note on Hors d'OEuvre
19. Part 9: A Few Sweets
20. Part 10: Jams and Preserves
21. Part 11: Sauces
22. Acknowledgements: Acknowledgements