I Am Almost Always Hungry: Seasonal Menus and Memorable Recipes - Hardcover

Lora Zarubin; Tessa Traeger

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9781584792871: I Am Almost Always Hungry: Seasonal Menus and Memorable Recipes
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1584792876 ISBN 13: 9781584792871
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, 2003

Synopsis

The food editor for House & Garden shares her lifelong love affair with food in a collection of simple but delicious recipes with a seasonal touch, including such dishes as Short Ribs with Chocolate and Cinnamon, Fennel and Parmigiano-Reggiano Salad, and Roasted Peaches with Cardamon Sugar and Mascarpone Sauce. 12,500 first printing.

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About the Author

Lora Zarubin has known since she was three years old that cooking was her passion, and spent many of her early days cooking with her grandmothers. In 1982 she founded Good Food Catering and ten years later opened the acclaimed restaurant Lora in New York's Greenwich Village. Zarubin has been House & Garden's food editor since 1996. She lives in New York City with her Jack Russell terrier, Bessie.

Tessa Traeger, one of the outstanding still-life photographers of our time, has exhibited regularly in Paris, London, Hamburg, and New York for the last 25 years.

Reviews

Fans of witty, urbane cookbooks that serve as freewheeling antidotes to didactic chef tomes will warm to Zarubin's newest volume. Each of Zarubin's clever chapters tells a story, like the one in which she admits to smuggling in raw milk cheeses from abroad (illustrated with a photo of a pig's hoof poking from a suitcase). Recipes are seasonal, but Zarubin's no farm girl: her restaurant Lora was located in Greenwich Village, and this book has serious New York City flair, as evidenced in an Indian-influenced Thanksgiving feast that includes Roasted Hubbard Squash Wedges with Garam Masala. Her witty sophistication is apparent with such headings as "You buy Prada, I buy Truffles," where she proceeds to explain her luxurious tastes for Shaved Black Truffles on Toast or Pan-fried Chicken Breast with Potato Puree and Black Truffle Gravy. There is a fine introduction from Zarubin's pal and House & Garden colleague (she's the food editor; he contributes a wine column), novelist Jay McInerney.
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Publisher
Harry N. Abrams
Publication date
2003
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1584792876
ISBN 13 
9781584792871
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
200
Rating
  • 4.25 out of 5 stars
    16 ratings by Goodreads