Festive Feasts Cookbook

by Michelle Berriedale-Johnson

Book Overview

The author is an expert in recreating historical recipes and shows how to create ten very different feasts. Choose from the lavish dishes of the Mughal emperors, the banquets of the Forbidden City, and the exotic cuisine of the Aztecs- or sample the traditional delights of a Georgian Christmas or Jewish Passover supper. Drawn form a fascinating range of sources, all 50 recipes have been throughly modernized and tested, and each menu comes complete...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714127876
• ISBN13: 9780714127873
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: British Museum Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A remarkable culinary tour through the ages

Michelle Berriedale-Johnson is an expert in recreating historical recipes. In Festive Feasts Cookbook, Michelle presents 50 timeless dishes from world history that have been modernized and tested, complete with alternative ingredients and serving suggestions. 60 color and 20 line illustrations add visual delights to exotic cuisine ranging from a Jewish Passover supper to the banquets of the Forbidden City to what the Mughal emperors used to consider delicacies, and much more. A remarkable culinary tour through the ages, with text as devoted to giving a feel for the era and circumstance of its offered recipes as how-to instructions to prepare the food itself, especially for cooks seeking inspiration, succulence, and variety worthy of royalty, Festive Feasts Cookbook is a very welcome addition to any dedicated, multicultural, culinary history cookbook collection.