Provides instructions and recipes for preparing various foods at home from fresh, preferably home-grown, ingredients. This description may be from another edition of this product.
Free yourself from mass produced "food." With this book you have access to making all kinds of wonderful products that can be exactly to your taste without all kinds of funky additives. Learn how to make your own olives, cheese, mustard, and preserves. Some interesting recipes, too. The only reason for four stars rather than five is lack of photos. But this is definitely a nice book to have as part of a collection.
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It's full of little things you an add to your kitchen to bring a hardy feel to cooking and your home. Excellent for the country cook or city-dweller who needs to connect to European culinary roots. Some things are so easy, children can do them. Others (like the section on bread making) require a little more. Overall it's worth it.
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This book is layed out as a series of chapters on particular topics such as making wine, vinegar, goat cheese, curing olives, making bread, etc. These chapters are then arranged as a description, with narrative, of how to make the food followed by recipes that *use the food*. So, for example, there is a chapter on making vinegar that can be summed up by: take old wine, get a mother of vinegar, let it hang out until done, (which...
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A friend passed this book along to me in the Peace Corps, and it consumed me until I had consumed the delights described inside. I am buying a copy of the revised edition for a dear friend's birthday. The vinegar (made from left-over dinner party wine) is the best I have had. The satisfaction that comes from kneading and baking your own bread (and the subsequent homemade french toast and croutons) is worth the Sunday afternoon...
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I bought this book for the goat cheese recipes, and I was very happy with the rest of the content. I doubt that I will cure my own olives any time soon, or make vinegar, but the information is useful and the author's enthusiasm is pleasant. If you enjoy Greek cooking, you will enjoy this book. If you enjoy the homey delights of doing for yourself, you will enjoy this book.
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