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Books: Cooking by Cuisine -> Cooking French
The Paris Cafe Cookbook : Rendezvous and Recipes from 50 Best Cafes
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by:
Young, Daniel
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Publisher:
Morrow Cookbooks
Published: November 4, 1998
ISBN: 0688153305
Format:Hardcover
Pages:160
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Book Description
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The Paris Café Cookbook brings home a food experience peculiar to a single city and singular kind of establishment. In Paris, the birthplace of the café, these establishments provide a sense of family cooking where little of it exists at
home any longer. Daniel Young, restaurant critic for the New York Daily News, has produced a delightful and informative book.
Young begins his book with a long elaboration that defines the Parisian café, setting it apart from brasserie and
bistro, though some can be either. Though his book is set up to follow a standard pattern (appetizers, sides, main dishes, and desserts), the divisions are broken up by short essays describing each of the 50 cafés Young has selected. This is as much tour
guide as cookbook at this point.
But it also anchors to a specific place and sensibility the food described in the recipes. Sure, Pot-au-Feu recipes are a dime a dozen, but Young gives the reader the Pot-au-Feu to be found at Brasserie Stella--as
well as the Brasserie itself. Steamed Chicken with Tarragon Sauce is sure to elicit no big surprises, yet this is the recipe served at Pétrissan's. The Stuffed Artichokes with Ratatouille Niçoise can be found at Les Fontaines or at your very own dinner
table. Café food is not elaborate or technique intensive. You can, in fact, do this home cooking at home.
That's what is so delightful about The Paris Café Cookbook: anyone who can't make it to Paris 16 times in three years to work on a book about
Paris cafés can simply cook the food at home, establish the right ambience, sit down, dine, and pretend. Let taste be your guide. --Schuyler Ingle
Product Description:
Author Daniel Young brings home to American cooks the charm, culture, and
food of the fifty best Paris cafe's. Unlike the bistro, the cafe' is a place where you can sit for as long as you like with only a drink -- but the food is so tempting, you'll want to order more than just a cafe' au lait. Here are more than 150 recipes
for classics like Coq au Vin and Boeuf Bourguignon, which satisfy cravings for hearty comfort food. Many French favorites such as Pommes Dauphine (Croquettes of Pureed Potatoes) are surprisingly simple and can be prepared in under thirty minutes.
Desserts like tarte tatin and chocolate-hazelnut-filled crepes are quintessential French treats and wonderfully easy to make.
Sure to transport even armchair travelers, The Paris Cafe' Cookbook presents stories of rendezvous and routines from the
author's travels to cafe's from Ma Bourgogne, situated in the oldest square in Paris, to the Web Bar, a new cyber cafe'. Evocative black-and-white photographs and colorful illustrations accompany the essays and recipes, making this cookbook a delightful
gift for food lovers and Francophiles.
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