Beard on Food: The Best Recipes and Kitchen Wisdom from the Dean of American Cooking

Beard, James

ISBN 10: 1596914467 / ISBN 13: 9781596914469

Published by Bloomsbury USA, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Beard on Food: The Best Recipes and Kitchen Wisdom from the Dean of American Cooking
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1596914467
• ISBN 13: 9781596914469
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

In Beard on Food, one of America's great culinary thinkers and teachers collects his best essays, ranging from the perfect hamburger to the pleasures of oxtails, from salad dressing to Sauce Diable. The result is not just a compendium of fabulous recipes and delicious bites of writing. It's a philosophy of food-unfussy, wide-ranging, erudite, and propelled by Beard's exuberance and sense of fun.
In a series of short, charming essays, with recipes printed in a contrasting color (as they were in the beloved original edition), Beard follows his many enthusiasms, demonstrating how to make everyday foods into delicious meals. Covering meats, vegetables, fish, herbs, and kitchen tools, Beard on Food is both an invaluable reference for cooks and a delightful read for armchair enthusiasts.
(For more information, visit the James Beard Foundation at www.jamesbeard.org.)
Praise for James Beard:

"In matters of the palate James Beard is absolutely to be trusted...He is always on target."-Chicago Tribune

"James Beard has done more than anybody else to popularize good food in America."-New York Times

"Beard was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table."-Craig Claiborne

"Too much of James Beard can never be enough for me."-Gael Greene

About the Author

JAMES BEARD is why you are a foodie today.  He was, with Julia Child, one of the two most influential chefs and food writers in America, championing both French cooking and the preservation and maintenance of great local food traditions to average home cooks.  He was a prolific writer, producing twenty-one books, including James Beard’s American Cookery and countless magazine articles; a tireless teacher; and early television personality and product promoter. The James Beard Foundation, which administers the industry’s most influential awards and meaningful scholarships, was founded in his honor after his death in 1985 and is headquartered in his townhouse in New York City’s Greenwich Village.