A Canon of Vegetables: 101 Classic Recipes - Hardcover

Sokolov, Raymond

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060725826 ISBN 13: 9780060725822

Publisher: William Morrow Cookbooks, 2007

Synopsis

Raymond Sokolov applies to vegetables the original concept of his book THE COOK'S CANON: 101 Classic Recipes Everyone Should Know, fusing imaginative recipes with a wealth of food lore. His more than 40 years' experience as a cookbook author and food historian provide a wealth of background for vegetable recipes from around the world, from traditional American (succotash) to Chinese (Sichuan spicy tofu) as well as French (Spinach Mornay) and Italian (Pasta e faglioli).

All the recipes are high points of the culinary imagination, great dishes in which vegetables are the featured ingredient. This is not a vegetarian cookbook. Many of the recipes include meat, but with the vegetables at center stage.

For each vegetable discussed and each recipe, Sokolov provides historical and cultural background with many witty comments based on his wide reading in food history and his training as a classicist.

Classic Comparisons:

CHEZ PANISSE VEGETABLES by Waters, Harper, 1996, $35, 0060171472 (113,914cc, isis)

VEGETABLES by Peterson, Morrow, 1998, $35, 0688146589 (27,191cc, isis)

About this title

About the Author:

Raymond SokoloV was a food columnist for Natural History magazine for twenty years and is the author of several cookbooks, a much-praised novel, Native Intelligence, and a biography of New Yorker critic A. J. Liebling.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow Cookbooks
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0060725826
• ISBN 13: 9780060725822
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256