The country gourmet cookbook

Workmen Publishing Hardcover with 416 pages, approx. size: 8.4 x 10.5" - A Cornucopia of 250 exceptional recipes developed by master cooks in a rural setting. It is a collection that blends passion for varied and sophisticated foods with delight in abundant vegetables, fruits and herbs of the country. Recipes from all over the world: choice pasta, spicy sausages, ethnic prizes like empanadas, frittatas, koftas, pakora. Fresh soups and salads, jams and preserves to put up for later, corn to offer in so many ways it is a revelation. - Organized month-by-month. It's a guide to fine and uncomplicated cooking throughout the year. There are homemade breads like Baguettes with Cracked Wheat in January; in March, velvety yogurt soups, including tangy carrot puree with lemon and sprouts; for December, luscious desserts like Tatty's Buttermilk Pie, perfect for offering to guests or giving as holiday gifts. - Tested and refined during three years of exploration and experimentation, County Gourmet is careful and precise, filled with down-home elegance, a triumph of good cooking. It is for any country kitchen-no matter where it is. (see photo's to see Recipe Contents.)