Georgeanne Brennan Boeken

For cooks who love to read -- for travelers who love to eat -- here is an unforgettable odyssey through the world's legendary culinary capitals. Each book includes 145 recipes and full-color photos throughout.

Ever wonder what green eggs and ham really taste like? They're yummy. And now everyone can whip up a batch for themselves using this fabulous cookbook. Filled with simple, scrumptious, wacky recipes for such foods as Cat in the Hat Pudding and Moose Juice and Schlopp, this unique cookbook will have the whole family hamming it up in the kitchen.  Each recipe is accompanied by the original verse that inspired it, and the pages are laminated to protect against getting splatters of Sneetch Salad, Oobleck, and Solla Sollew Stew.

"An exciting new perspective on a cherished cuisine" (The San Francisco Chronicle), the Vegetarian Table series celebrates the rich diversity of flavors, fruits and vegetables, grains and legumes, and the variety of enticing spices found all over the world, providing the perfect opportunity for indulging the vegetarian palate. Lavishly illustrated with stunning full-color photography and text by some of the finest food writers in the industry, this popular Chronicle Books series is now available in paperback. Featuring distinctive vegetarian recipes for appetizers, soups and salads, pastas and noodles, main dishes, breads, and desserts, the cuisines are as delicious as they are exotic. The Vegetarian Table series offers an enticing and nutritious way to bring the sumptuous food and flavors from around the globe to any vegetarian tablewherever it may be.

From the publisher of Under the Tuscan Sun comes another extraordinary memoir of a woman embarking on a new lifethis time in the South of France. Thirty years ago, James Beard Award-winning author Georgeanne Brennan set out to realize the dream of a peaceful, rural existence en Provence. She and her husband, with their young daughter in tow, bought a small farmhouse with a little land, and a few goats and pigs and so began a life-affirming journey. Filled with delicious recipes and local color, this evocative and passionate memoir describes her life cooking and living in the Provenal tradition. An entrancing tale that will whet the appetite and the spirit. Perfect for foodies, Francophiles, or anyone who's dreamed of packing their bags and buying a ticket to the good life.

Christmas is a time for entertaining and for the host that means hours spent planning, shopping and decorating the house. With a good guidebook in hand, the work of holiday entertaining can be one of the joys of the seasons.

Long before anyone on this side of the Atlantic was devoted to eating seasonally and locally, the French were doing precisely that, just as they had been for centuries. Although the high-end haute cuisine of Paris exported itself far and wide many decades ago, the varied regional cooking styles of France continue to reveal themselves to the world and dazzle those fortunate enough to experience them firsthand. Williams-Sonoma's Essentials of French Cooking takes you on a meandering food lover's tour of France, from the windswept coastline of Brittany, where the lamb tastes of the salty fields on which it grazes, southward through Gascony, with its bracing Armagnac and rib-sticking cassoulet, to the delicious fish stews of Marseilles and the Mediterranean, and back up through Burgundy, where the wine flows from some of the world's greatest vineyards and the local Dijon mustard makes a perfect sauce for the local rabbit. In these pages you'll also explore the fascinating intersections of culture and gastronomy in Alsace, where potatoes, cabbage, and beer lend a Germanic heft to the traditional menu; sunny Provence, where dishes made with tomatoes, garlic, olives, and basil link its cooking to that of neighboring Italy; and the Basque country, where Spanish flavors and Moorish spices like saffron and cumin have seeped over the Pyrenees. In addition to presenting a wide range of traditional, regional main dishes to build meals around, this collection of more than 140 carefully selected recipes covers a full range of courses and techniques, from silky baked farm-fresh eggs to brilliantly simple preparations for every season's vegetables through the most luxurious chocolate creams and satisfying rustic fruit tarts. And while terroir plays an undeniable role in this cuisine, true French cooking is comfort food for family and friends, which translates everywhere. A comprehensive glossary and a section on basic stocks and sauces help you fill your pantry with the authentic elements and bring one of the world's most admired cuisines home to your table.

Die Kunst des Einmachens ist neu. Kräuter des Frühlings, die Fülle von frischem Gemüse aus dem Sommer, herbstliche Pilze und die Zitrusfrüchte des Winters - mit den unkomplizierten Rezepten dieses Buches wird es ein Leichtes, die schönsten Aromen jeder Jahreszeit zu bewahren. In schöne Gläser und Flaschen gefüllt, sind die Marmeladen, eingelegten Früchte und Gemüse, Chutneys, Pickles und aromatisierten Öle und Essige Augenschmaus und Gaumenfreude zugleich. Sie erfreuen sich auch als Geschenke größter Beliebtheit.

Die erfolgreiche Kochbuchreihe „After Work Cooking“ basiert auf einem einfachen Prinzip: Mit einer Handvoll Zutaten braucht es nur wenige Arbeitsschritte, um köstliche Mahlzeiten servieren zu können. Eilige Genießer finden hier unkomplizierte Rezepte für feine und gehaltvolle Suppen, die schnell zubereitet sind und schon eine halbe Stunde später auf dem Tisch stehen. Wertvolle Zeit spart man zudem mit schmackhaften Fonds, auf Vorrat gekocht, die eine Vielzahl von Suppenvariationen ermöglichen.

Ein in Text und Bild stimmungsvolles Buch um das französische Ritual, sich Mittags oder gegen 7 zu einer geselligen Aperitifstunde zu treffen, um dann nicht unbedingt gemeinsam zu essen. Ausführlichen Hinweisen zur Herstellung des eigenen "Vin maison" folgen Rezepte, basierend auf frischen Tafelweinen. Bis so ein Hauswein fertig ist, muss man sich schon mal ein Jahr gedulden. Aperitifs wie Pastis, Sherry, Vermouth oder Dubonnet werden geschildert. Daneben alkoholfreie Aperitifs wie Limettenlimonade oder AnanasFrapée. Ausgesprochen anregend sind die kleinen Gerichte, wie Datteln mit Parmesan, eingelegter Ziegenkäse oder Feigen im Speckmantel, für deren Zubereitung man sich schon etwas Zeit nehmen muss. Im Anhang Bezugsquellen, und Literaturhinweise. Das Buch ist selber ein "Appetitmacher" und kann sehr gerne empfohlen werden. Die Vorauflage (nicht im Besprechungsdienst) lag zum Vergleich nicht vor, ist aber seitengleich und kostete damals DM 39.90. Da ist vorliegende Ausgabe ausgesprochen preiswert. (2)

Anschaulicher, praxisorientierter Ratgeber zum Sammeln und Trocknen von Blüten, Blättern und Kräutern; illustriert mit zeitlosen, gefälligen Dekorationsideen.