The Lost Art of Real Cooking: Rediscovering the Pleasures of Traditional Food One Recipe at a Time by Ken Albala and Rosanna Nafziger

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    • Categories: Chutneys, pickles & relishes; Cooking ahead; Vegan; Vegetarian
    • Ingredients: cucumbers; spices of your choice; vinegar; salt brine
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  • ISBN 10 0399535888
  • ISBN 13 9780399535888
  • Published Jul 06 2010
  • Format Hardcover
  • Page Count 256
  • Language English
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher Perigee Books
  • Imprint Perigee Books

Publishers Text

A celebration of the new-old-fashioned culinary revolution--with recipes, lore, and techniques for mastering the art of homemade fare--from baking, pickling, and braising to smoking and preserving. The Lost Art of Real Cooking heralds a new old-fashioned approach to food--laborious, inconvenient, difficult, extraordinarily rewarding, and worth bragging about. This book is for anyone who didn't grow up on a farm, but has the longing to connect on a deeper level with what goes into their body.

Ken Albala and Rosanna Nafziger explain the significance of spending months preparing home-made sauerkraut and pickles, how curing olives at home takes no complex chemistry but immense patience and yields something infinitely finer than anything that can be bought in a jar. They expound upon the ancient mysteries of capturing wild sourdoughs and culturing butter, the beauty of rendering lard, making cheese and brewing beer, all without the electric toys that take away from the adventure of truly experiencing food. From pickles and fresh pasta to dry sausage and pastry dough, Ken and Rosanna show how to make assorted pleasures once thought to be only available at high-priced specialty shops. These foods can all be made in the smallest of kitchens without expensive equipment, by both serious cooks and novices alike, capturing flavors which speak of place and personality.

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