—Mark Bittman, former New York Times food columnist
“One of the great cookbooks of all time.”
—The Mail on Sunday
The rediscovered classic cookbook on the essentials of authentic, back-to-basics European cuisine—with over 300 recipes from 25 countries, including France, Spain, Greece, Italy, and more
Award-winning food writer Elisabeth Luard joyously salutes the foundations of modern Western cooking with recipes collected during more than 25 years of travel and research, many of them spent living in rural France, Spain, Greece, Ireland, and Italy. Divided into 14 sections, The Old World Kitchen includes recipes for:
• Vegetable Dishes
• Potato Dishes
• Corner Cupboard Dishes
• Noodles and Dough-Based Dishes
• Barnyard and Dairy
• Fish and Seafood
• Poultry
• Small Game
• Pork
• Shepherd’s Meats
• Beef, Reindeer, and Grilled Meats
• Breads and Yeast Pastries
• Sweet Dishes
• The Rustic Kitchen
This definitive collection of over 300 time-tested recipes from 25 European countries is an indispensable guide to the simple, delicious, and surprisingly exotic dishes of peasant Europe.
Author
Elisabeth Luard
ELISABETH LUARD is an award-winning food writer, journalist, and broadcaster. She is the author of ten cookbooks, including The Latin American Kitchen, The Food of Spain and Portugal, A Cook’s Year in a Welsh Kitchen; three volumes of memoir, Family Life, Still Life, and My Life as a Wife; and two novels. Her thirteen-part television series, The Rich Tradition, was broadcast on BBC2 and SBS Australia. She spent many years living in rural Spain, France, and Italy, and traveling across Europe collecting recipes, many of which are collected in The Old World Kitchen. Her work as a journalist appears regularly in The Daily Mail, The Scotsman, Country Living, Cambria Magazine, The Jewish Chronicle, and The Times Literary Supplement. She is currently Trustee Director of The Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, contributes a monthly column to The Oldie Magazine, and is a member of the team at online culinary magazine Zester Daily.
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