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Parisian Home Cooking: Conversations, Recipes, And Tips From The Cooks And Food Merchants Of Paris

May 24, 2011 by admin  
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Parisian Home Cooking: Conversations, Recipes, And Tips From The Cooks And Food Merchants Of Paris

Presenting wholesome, easy-to-make recipes (most of which take less than 30 minutes to prepare), this book offers a look at how real people shop, cook and eat in the French capital.’Picture for a moment a package of salmon steaks wrapped in plastic, labeled with a price sticker, and put out on display with the rest of the shrink-wrapped seafood in your neighborhood giant supermarket. Or for that matter, picture yourself racing through the supermarket, getting the food shopping over with as q

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  1. Anonymous says:
    25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
    5.0 out of 5 stars
    Cooking Fiend and Francophile is Right…, March 8, 2000
    By A Customer
    This review is from: Parisian Home Cooking: Conversations, Recipes, And Tips From The Cooks And Food Merchants Of Paris (Hardcover)

    …everything I make from this book is truly delicious and , may I add, nutritious. Parisian Home Cooking teaches us that the value of fresh and diverse ingredients, simply prepared is the core of true health; dishes that yearn to be enjoyed amoung friends and actually leave you energy to enjoy their company! I just love the woman who refuses to spend more than fifteen minutes at her stove yet serves up divine dinners; the butcher’s timeless admonition that for the body to work it must have some fat – how avant; the tips that coax real flavor from simple foods – to “sweeten” the vinegar for the perfect vinaigrette by adding a splash of wine (just one tip of many). As the diet gurus duke it out for your dollars, look at the slim, healthy Parisians in the photographs, read what they eat at home, and you will toss out the crazed American diet fads with relief. This book will feed you. It’s also a good read. Move over Dr. Ornish and Monsieur Pepin – the secret is out!

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  2. Anonymous says:
    20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
    5.0 out of 5 stars
    The new rush-to-the-stoves book, June 6, 1999
    By A Customer
    This review is from: Parisian Home Cooking: Conversations, Recipes, And Tips From The Cooks And Food Merchants Of Paris (Hardcover)

    NEW YOUR TIMES SUNDAY BOOK REVIEW JUNE 6, 1999

    The new rush-to-the-stoves book is Parisian Home Cooking: Conversations, Recipes and Tips From the Cooks and Food Merchants of Paris……a collection of recipes lovingly and cannily collected from Parisians young and old– a concierge, a hip friend and his mother, a fellow American in Paris, the butcher at the street market and many other garrulous vendors. Roberts, a longtime Los Angeles restaurant chef and (with Barbara Kafka) one of the country’s few truly original thinkers about cooking, returned to Paris 20 years after receiving his culinary schooling there, armed with a student’s enthusiasm, an anthropologist’s curiosity, a born schmoozer’s way of eliciting cooking secrets and a sensational sense of taste. He rediscovers techniques born of Parisian practicality in the face of minimal burners and unreliable ovens: duck cooked and defatted in a pressure cooker before being finished in the oven, chicken roasted in a closely covered casserole, steak seared in a cast-iron skillet over high heat. Techniques and recipes like this will make cooks who cut their teeth on Julia Child and then moved on to Italy fall in love with French cooking all over again.

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  3. Anonymous says:
    22 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
    5.0 out of 5 stars
    from NEWSDAY, July 30, 1999
    By A Customer
    This review is from: Parisian Home Cooking: Conversations, Recipes, And Tips From The Cooks And Food Merchants Of Paris (Hardcover)

    Book and Author: “Parisian Home Cooking: Conversations, Recipes, and Tips from the Cooks and Food Merchants of Paris,” by Michael Roberts. Roberts pioneered California cuisine at his Los Angeles restaurant, Trumps, and is the author of “Secret Ingredients,” “Make-Ahead Gourmet” and “What’s for Dinner.” Details: William Morrow, $25; 352 pages, 175 recipes, black-and-white photographs of Parisian markets and habitues throughout.

    Description: Roberts starts off with advice on how to shop Parisian style in your hometown (frequent small markets; develop relationships with purveyors), then launches into recipes for every course, which are appended with kitchen tips and trenchant tales of marketing and cooking in Paris. Assessment: During this vogue for all things Italian, Roberts clearly wants to rescue French food from its current reputation as fussy and outdated. He absolutely succeeds with this well-written collection of vigorous, straightforward recipes. The book also paints a vivid picture of Roberts’ Parisian crowd, urbane professionals who happen to whip up fabulous meals in their tiny kitchens. -Erica Marcus .

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