The Mezzaluna Cookbook

The owner and culinary advisor for the famous Mezzaluna restaurants, our nation's best-known trattorias, shares the secrets behind his acclaimed seasonal Italian fare. This cookbook embodies Italian food at its best--light, uncomplicated, and full of fresh flavor. Black-and-white photographs.

What is the recipe for happiness? Maybe we all have our own secret ingredient... This is what Mara Lembo sets out to explore as we travel along her path of personal growth, retracing her steps through her life in Italy and her passion for food. Mezzaluna Smile is a bittersweet memoir, mirroring the half-moon of the title as she waits to grow into her full splendour. The author's personal quest is one we all share as we strive to reach our own centres of balance. It's an invitation to celebrate change, to experiment, to smile, and to enjoy life. Blending memories and sparks of humour, Mara Lembo takes the reader on a carefree and lighthearted journey through the stories, recipes, and images that left their marks on the many chapters of her life.

"125 recipes from the acclaimed restaurant"--Cover.

Have you ever read a recipe that called for artichokes and wondered just how to trim them, or wanted to learn the proper way to use a pastry bag? While most cookbooks provide home cooks with only recipes, The Tante Marie's Cooking School Cookbook provides recipes and detailed cooking techniques -- it's like going to cooking school without ever leaving your home. With more than 250 delicious yet approachable recipes and countless techniques, The Tante Marie's Cooking School Cookbook enables readers to become familiar with the basics of cooking and then encourages them to improvise. Because the recipes have been tested in the San Francisco kitchens of Tante Marie's by hundreds of students, home cooks can be assured that they are virtually foolproof. Having guided thousands of students through the world of French cooking for the past thirty years, renowned cooking teacher Mary Risley is well aware of common mistakes made in the kitchen. Risley troubleshoots a multitude of problem areas for cooks (such as what to do if your soup is too thick, or not thick enough), allowing home cooks to avoid common pitfalls. With variations provided for many dishes and instructions on how to cook without recipes, more advanced home cooks can start to create dishes on their own. From delicious hors d'oeuvres like Fava Bean Crostini with Pecorino and Miniature Shrimp Quiches and Asparagus-Fontina Pizza with Truffle Oil, to enticing entrees like Roast Chicken with New Potatoes and Olives, Halibut Baked with Warm Shallot Compote, and Herbed Rack of Lamb with Béarnaise Sauce, Risley presents an impressive array of French-inspired recipes for contemporary American tastes. Classic recipes are updated with modern twists in dishes such as Fresh Pea Soup with Cilantro and Meyer Lemon Crème Brûlée. Delectable dessert recipes include Grand Marnier Soufflé, Gingerbread Napoleon with Poached Pears and Caramel Sauce, Compote of Fresh Berries with Lemon Verbena Ice Cream, and classic Tiramisù. Additional chapters on first courses, soups, salads, pasta and risotto, fish and shellfish, vegetables, breads, cookies, chocolates, cakes, and pastries offer the home cook a recipe for every occasion. Risley also provides in-depth discussions on ingredients such as cheese, chocolate, truffles, and planned leftovers. A section of Suggested Seasonal Menus as well as a chapter of foundation recipes for accomplished cooks complete this wonderful volume. Illustrated with gorgeous black-and-white drawings, The Tante Marie's Cooking School Cookbook will become the cookbook you can't live without. It's the next best thing to having a cooking instructor cook right beside you.

The authors of the national bestseller The Silver Palate Cookbook now bring their acclaimed gourmet style to graceful entertaining at home. In The Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook, Julee Rosso and Sheila Lukins make the entire year a celebration of good food, good friends, and good times, as they offer menus, suggestions, and strategies. More than 450 new recipes have been developed especially for this collection.All add to the joyfulness of the rapidly growing Silver Palate legend: there are glorious soups, savory entrees, vegetables, salads, cheese, souffles, and showstopping, just-right desserts. As warmly inviting as the most rousing party, the pages of The Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook abound with winsome line illustrations, pertinent quotations, unusual ideas—and with dishes including Cajun Chicken Morsels, Duck and Dandelion Green Salad, Pesto Fondue, Tex-Mex Stuffed Peppers, and more. The excitement begins in spring and continues right through to winter, with a lavish Christmas Goose accompanied by Scalloped Oysters and Baked Kumquats. The good times are here, with the compliments of The Silver Palate.

This cookbook features recipes for German-Jewish cuisine as it existed in Germany prior to World War II, and as refugees later adapted it in the United States and elsewhere. Because these dishes differ from more familiar Jewish food, they will be a discovery for many people. With a focus on fresh, seasonal ingredients, this indispensable collection of recipes includes numerous soups, both chilled and hot; vegetable dishes; meats, poultry, and fish; fruit desserts; cakes; and the German version of challah, Berches. These elegant and mostly easy-to-make recipes range from light summery fare to hearty winter foods. The Gropmans-a mother-daughter author pair-have honored the original recipes Gabrielle learned after arriving as a baby in Washington Heights from Germany in 1939, while updating their format to reflect contemporary standards of recipe writing. Six recipe chapters offer easy-to-follow instructions for weekday meals, Shabbos and holiday meals, sausage and cold cuts, vegetables, coffee and cake, and core recipes basic to the preparation of German-Jewish cuisine. Some of these recipes come from friends and family of the authors; others have been culled from interviews conducted by the authors, prewar German-Jewish cookbooks, nineteenth-century American cookbooks, community cookbooks, memoirs, or historical and archival material. The introduction explains the basics of Jewish diet (kosher law). The historical chapter that follows sets the stage by describing Jewish social customs in Germany and then offering a look at life in the vibrant _migr_ community of Washington Heights in New York City in the 1940s and 1950s. Vividly illustrated with more than fifty drawings by Megan Piontkowski and photographs by Sonya Gropman that show the cooking process as well as the delicious finished dishes, this cookbook will appeal to readers curious about ethnic cooking and how it has evolved, and to anyone interested in exploring delicious new recipes.

Explore a delicious collection of fresh and flavorful recipes of wine country with the first cookbook from California’s Oakville Grocery. Enjoy more than 100 carefully curated, original recipes from the oldest continually operated grocery store in California, Oakville Grocery. With simple elegance in mind, each recipe is influenced by the fresh and flavorful ingredients Oakville Grocery has provided its patrons since 1881, with the store's unique character and charm captured on every page. Indulge in delicious west-coast inspired dishes such as Peach and Prosciutto Flatbread or Quinoa Breakfast Bowls with Potatoes, Spinach, and Pesto. From a family-style breakfast to a wine and cheese party, Oakville Grocery The Cookbook is sure to have the perfect recipes. Travel through the serene Napa Valley from your very own kitchen and enjoy the wonderful flavors of California olive oils, whole grain pastas, tangy mustards, bold spices, and elegant chocolates. Oakville Grocery The Cookbook: Seasonal Recipes from the Heart of Wine Country is a guide to fresh and filling meals for your family and a delicious escape to wine country any day or season. FOCUSED ON FRESH: Oakville Grocery has been dedicated to fresh, local ingredients and recipes that fuel your body with the very best since 1881. EASY-TO-FOLLOW: With detailed instructions, pairing suggestions, and thoughtful tips, this is the perfect cookbook for any skill level. MORE THAN RECIPES: Includes a background of the historical Oakville Grocery store and Napa Valley, local California vendors, and beautiful photography of wine country. PERFECT FOR EVERY SEASON: With 100+ recipes categorized by season, you will never be without the right recipe for any occasion.

Who Decides? Competing Narratives in Constructing Tastes, Consumption and Choice explores how tastes are shaped, formed, delineated and acted upon by normalising socio-cultural processes, and, in some instances, how those very processes are actively resisted and renegotiated.