Magnificent Obsessions

by Mitch Tuchman

Book Overview

This collection of warming recipes will help stave off winter's chill. A steaming bowl of soup is always welcome - Soups & Snacks has hearty recipes like Parsnip, Chorizo and Chestnut Soup. In Long Nights and Log Fires you'll find quick-to-prepare recipes including Taleggio and Potato Tortilla and Sausages with Winter Rosti. One-pot Wonders is full of casseroles and slow-cooked dishes such as? Beef and Carrot Casserole with Dumplings. Roasts are perfect...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811803600
• ISBN13: 9780811803601
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Chronicle Books (CA)
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 10.0" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Worthwhile passions

A glorious celebration of twenty collectors and their passions. Peter Brenner's excellent color photos capture them with their lifes work. My favorite is Dorothy Twining Globus who collects (as she says) 'Everything'. The Cade brothers go for anything Studebaker and that includes over thirty real cars. Kit Hinrichs loves the Stars and Stripes, his collection can be seen in the sumptuous book 'Long May She Wave'.Author Tuchman's fascinating text details how each one pursued their dreams, I can identify with a lot of this because some years ago I managed to collect 450 radio station t-shirts (still got 'em too, email me with offers).This book is very similar to Ellen Land-Webber's out-of-print photo essay 'The Passionate Collector'. If you really have the collecting bug check out 'The Collecting Book' by Ellen and Lewis Liman, 800 photos of collections and lots of practical information.I wonder if anyone collects books about colectors? Hmmm...this could be the start of my new collection!

Makes you feel like you're not so wierd...

If you can stand waiting a while to get this book, it's definitely worth the wait! The collections featured are all similar in that they are exhaustive in scope, and many of them are extremely intriguing due to their subject matter. The only drawback to this book is that it's too short! It wets the appetite for the unusual and eccentric, but doesn't come close to satisfying you once you've started reading.