Potatoes: A Country Garden Cookbook - Hardcover

Waldron, Maggie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0002552264 ISBN 13: 9780002552264

Publisher: Collins Publishers San Francisco, 1993

Synopsis

Offers advice on growing potatoes, describes some of the most popular varieties, and shares recipes for appetizers, side dishes, and main dishes that feature potatoes

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Waldrone ( Cold Spaghetti at Midnight ) here finds redeeming value in a humble thing, traipsing with the potato through culinary Mexico, France, Italy, Hungary, the Middle East and various quarters of North America. As glimpsed through the fine nostalgic mist of Jones's camera, the root swells a Mediterranean fish stew; stuffs golden fowl or green chilies; or lies au naturel , pending baking or roasting. Among the most appealing recipes are the simplest: in roasted balsamic potatoes and onions, recommended as an accompaniment to red meats, the contenders are oven-roasted first in olive oil and then in seasoned balsamic vinegar; in rosemary potato skewers, potato chunks are boiled, dredged in herbs and spices, and grilled on charcoal. But if the potato lends itself to these visceral pleasures, it can also sneak into upper-crust tarts without suffering. (And even into hummus--where, one suspects, it may languish.) Waldron, trained at La Varenne, offers appetizers, side dishes and main courses in her brief book, a new entry in Collins's attractive Country Garden Cookbook series, and even offers advice to the amateur grower--but omits desserts, where potatoes can give depth and moist substance, if not pungence, to tortes. BOMC selection.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Collins Publishers San Francisco
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0002552264
• ISBN 13: 9780002552264
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1