Cooking for All Seasons - Hardcover

Schmidt, Jimmy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0026071312 ISBN 13: 9780026071314

Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co, 1991

Synopsis

Offers a season-by-season compendium of recipes using ingredients that are in season, details cooking techniques designed to showcase the flavors, and provides a month-by-month availability chart for fruits, vegetables, seafood, mushrooms, and wild plants

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Cooking by the season's bounty, a culinary tradition as old as the campfire, gives the inventive Schmidt, chef and owner of Detroit's Rattlesnake Club, an opportunity to display an unconventional approach to blending ingredients. With a deep bow to Southwest cuisine, he adds peppers of all kinds to seafood and poultry, accents shellfish with citrus, flavors meats with nuts or exotic fruits and finds myriad uses for ginger. Enlivened by contrasts in texture and color, Schmidt's recipes, while many-stepped and traditional in method (salsa Hollandaise, made with lime juice, is whisked by hand), remain essentially uncomplicated. Tastes are highlighted, not masked. Some combinations may overreach (lamb-and-papaya tortillas), but many promise to wake us up: swordfish with ginger and grapefruit, salmon with black and white sesames, lamb with sweet spiced pecans. Ingredients are detailed in tables and charts; dressings and accompanying sauces are a strong point . Readers who may well skim the author's fulsome chapter introductions should by no means pass up white chocolate ravioli with hazelnut sauce.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal:

Schmidt, owner/chef of Detroit's Rattlesnake Club, is a talented cook and baker. His dishes, which emphasize seasonal ingredients, are a study in contrasting tastes and textures--unusual combinations are common, but the pairings are harmonious; his desserts are on the indulgent side. Recipes are arranged by season; the preparation and cooking notes are particularly good, and numerous seasonal ingredient charts and a lengthy glossary are also included. Some of the recipes are complicated, and some of the ingredients are expensive--but most collections will want this.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0026071312
• ISBN 13: 9780026071314
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288