Northwest Bounty : The Extraordinary Foods and Wonderful Cooking of the Pacific Northwest - Softcover

Ingle, Schuyler; Kramis, Sharon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1570612250 ISBN 13: 9781570612251

Publisher: Sasquatch Books, 1999

Synopsis

This classic cookbook of Pacific Northwest cuisinewith Schuyler Ingles informed essays and Sharon Kramiss 300 wonderful recipesis available once again, now in an updated paperback edition.

Considered by many to be the definitive cookbook of Pacific Northwest cuisine, this book reflects a deep knowledge of the region's ingredients: oysters and shellfish from sound and ocean, lamb and fruit from east of the mountains, and an intuitive sense of how it all comes together in the home kitchen. This is the one basic cookbook every Northwesterner should own.

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Review:

The special ingredients of the Pacific Northwest invite good cooking. Of the growing spate of cookbooks that celebrate the region and its products, Schuyler Ingle and Sharon Kramis's Northwest Bounty presents a particularly well-chosen recipe selection framed in a set of skillfully crafted essays full of culinary interest. The book, first published in 1988 and revised in 1999, is a good introduction to the region through its food, and should appeal to general readers as well as those looking for simple, delicious dishes that require little work to fix.

Because the ingredients are the defining aspect of Northwest cooking, the book is organized by them. Chapters devoted to shellfish, meat and poultry, tree fruit, and berries, among others, yield more than 275 enticing traditional and contemporary recipes, such as Medallions of Lamb with Pinot Noir and Hazelnut Sauce, Dungeness Crab Cakes with Tarragon Mayonnaise, Cloud Biscuits, Whole Baked Salmon in Cucumber Sauce, and Huckleberry Nectarine Pie. The essays (provided by Ingle) treat an array of topics, from oyster farming, pig raising, community gardening, local hot-sauce production, and more. With fish and shellfish ingredient glossaries, a vegetable availability calendar, and a note on tools for the kitchen, the book reveals the true culinary glory of one of America's most bounteous regions. --Arthur Boehm

About the Author:

Schuyler Ingle is a journalist who has written extensively about food, crime, and golf. He lives on Bainbridge Island, Washington. Sharon Kramis, author of Berries: A Country Garden Cookbook, is a restaurant consultant and cooking teacher. She lives on Mercer Island, Washington.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sasquatch Books
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1570612250
• ISBN 13: 9781570612251
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 278