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[Vanessa]

Ordered 2 Troisgros titles via abebooks: La Cuisine Familiale and La Cuisine Acidulée.

So Lippy, what about Mes Tartes?

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[omnivorette]

Just wanted to make sure this got noticed...

Grimes article from Sunday NYT

[Vanessa]

Good piece. But doesn't it belong in the Olive Garden thread :blink:

It also fits in with all the moral issues I'm reading about in Hugh F-W's meat book, about which I shall post anon.

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[omnivorette]

What book is that, v ???

[Vanessa]

This.

Different issues - but it's all interconnected in the end. Half the book is polemic, half the book recipes. When I get to the end of the polemic I'll post. I like this man, I like how he writes and his principles. He uses the media to achieve his 'political' ends, rather just to become another celebrity.

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[Ron Johnson]

It isn't really a new cookbook, but I recently purchased the Balthazar cookbook.

I really like French bistro/brasserie food. A lot of it doesn't require a recipe to figure out, but some of it does, and I wanted to know the proper way to make certain dishes such as a blanquette de veau.

Its a very well-done book by Clarkson Potter. Riad Nasr and Lee Hanson seem to check their egos at the door and let McNally have first billing, but he admits the recipes are theirs.

I also enjoy the fact that there are a manageable number of dishes included. My brain just goes foggy when books include thousands of recipes. This is a sensible book that covers all the essentials for good simple French food.

[omnivorette]

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's Meat book is not available on amazon in the US. aaarrgh.

Others of his I should buy?

[Vanessa]

River Cottage Cookbook. Don't bother with the next one, the River Cottage Year or something like that.

Can't you get amazon.co.uk to ship the meat book? After all, we buy from amazon.com all the time here.

v

[omnivorette]

I could, for close to $50 (US) including shipping.

[Vanessa]

I could, for close to $50 (US) including shipping.

Well of course, for us that isn't so much money :lol: :lol:

But seriously, do you realise what a substantial book this is? 544pp and about 41/2 lb in weight - I just weighed it :huh:

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[Lippy]

and Mes Tartes?

(I'm being tempted - need help here :ph43r: )

v

I don't want to omment until I make a ouple of the tarts, but the reipes are intriguing, with very rih pastry and unusual ombinations of fruits, vegetables and herbs -- rhubarbwith white muenster heese, strawberry with lemongrass, that sort of thing.

[akiko]

Does anyone own "Simple to Spectacular"? It's on sale at one of those discount book places by my work and I wondered if it was worth picking up.

[Vanessa]

Yes, definitely buy it. I haven't cooked from it but I'm sure clb mentioned something very favourite recently - on the supper thread?

Lippy has sold me on the tart book simply from the descriptions of recipe combinations :(

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[clb]

Yes, definitely buy it. I haven't cooked from it but I'm sure clb mentioned something very favourite recently - on the supper thread?

v

Yes, the cucumber-coriander gazpacho was very good and very easy.

I have a vague memory of something else turning out less successfully; I'll have a glance through and check.

clb

[omnivorette]

In the most recent issue of The Art of Eating (I adore it so), I read a review of Raymond Sokolov's new book, "The Cook's Canon." And I bought it; came yesterday.

What a delight. Very funny, very idiosyncratic, opinionated, such fun to read. Can't wait to try some of the recipes.