French Country Kitchen: The Undiscovered Glories of French Regional Cuisine - Hardcover

Villas, James

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9780553076646: French Country Kitchen: The Undiscovered Glories of French Regional Cuisine
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0553076647 ISBN 13: 9780553076646
Publisher: Bantam, 1992

Synopsis

Brings the lusty cuisine of the French countryside to American tables with more than 175 recipes--from seafood stews to chocolate mousse--collected during the author's thirty years of extensive travels through France. 25,000 first printing.

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Town and Country food-writer Villas (Villas at Table, 1988, etc.) fell in love with French cooking as a student there 30 years ago. To judge from the first-person introductions to the recipes presented here, he has spent considerable time since then traveling throughout the country, enjoying the earthy, regional cooking of country homes and neighborhood bistros. Saut‚ed tripe, roast calf's liver, eel stew, and jugged hare are among the lusty dishes that take his fancy--though about the liver he admits that ``I haven't had much luck with [this] method, but...if you'd like to try....''- -hardly an inducement to do so. Many ingredients, too, he deems just not the same stateside--often insufficiently gamey for him-- but he can usually recommend acceptable American products. Villas also dispenses advice to other gastronomic travelers, who can follow his lead to the real thing. Either way, his own impassioned and informed appreciation is persuasive. For an undiluted taste of real French food, look no further. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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Publisher
Bantam
Publication date
1992
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0553076647
ISBN 13 
9780553076646
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
376
Rating
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