Bistro Cooking: 200 Recipes Inspired by the Small Family Restaurants of France Celebrate a Return to Generous, Full-flavored Cooking - Softcover

Wells, Patricia; Jones, Judy Kleiber

Softcover

ISBN 10: 089480622X ISBN 13: 9780894806223

Publisher: Workman Pub Co, 1989

Synopsis

More than two hundred recipes for simple, informal, hearty home-cooking are inspired by the neighborhood restaurants of France and have been made lighter and quicker for the American table

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Review

In this warm look into the world of French bistro food, eminent food writer Patricia Wells reveals her love for this simple, robust cuisine in a collection of recipes garnered from France's best bistros. From Warm Potato Salad with Herbed Vinaigrette to Lamb Stew in White Wine to Pear Clafoutis, Wells admits her preference for hearty, homey bistro dishes. Through clearly written recipes, Wells encourages cooks to buy the best ingredients and turn them into fragrant, warming dishes. Each recipe has a note telling where it came from and alluding to its flavor. Pithy quotes throughout the book relate to bistro style--in cooking, serving, and eating--and historical quotations give a cultural connotation. Wine choices reach deep into the heart of France, from a crisp white from Provence such as a Chateau Simone with lamb, to a good Côtes du Rhone (Cru du Coudelet) with guinea hen. From the introduction to the last dessert recipe (for Prunes in Red Wine), Bistro Cooking is sure to please not just the novice in the kitchen, but the experienced cook as well. --Susan Loomis, Amazon.co.uk

From the Back Cover

200 recipes inspired by the small family restaurants of France celebrate a return to generous, full-flavored cooking. Bistro is warm, bistro is family. Bistro is robust soups and rustic salads, wine-scented stews, bubbling gratins, and desserts from a grandmother's kitchen. Bistro is everyday china and elbows on the table and second helpings. It is best friends over for no particular reason. Bistro is earthy, not fuss; easy, not painstaking. And BISTRO COOKING presents no-nonsense, inexpensive, soul-satisfying cuisine inspired by the neighborhood restaurants of France.

With 200 recipes, plus menus and quotes, BISTRO COOKING features not only bistro owners in the kitchen, but French housewives, farmers, winemakers, breadbakers, and many others who contribute to bistro as a way of life.

"Patricia Wells' wonderful naturalness, openness, and honesty are in perfect harmony with the simple, delicious fare she celebrates in BISTRO COOKING . . . her enthusiasm and joy are reflected on every page of this fine book, and happily we are all the beneficiaries." -JACQUES PEPIN

MENU

LEFT BANK BISTRO; TABLE FOR TWO

Familiar bistro fare, a menu designed to celebrate romance, love, or simply the fact that you're alive and well. With this, try a Saint-Veran or a Macon-Villages.

Saucisson Chaud Pommes a L'Huile

Warm Poached Sausage with Potato Salad

Canard aux Olives Chez Allard

Chez Allard's Roast Duck with Olives

Tarte aux Pommes a la CrSme

Golden Cream and Apple Tart

Edition details

• Publisher: Workman Pub Co
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 089480622X
• ISBN 13: 9780894806223
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 291