Apples for Jam: A Colorful Cookbook
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Tessa Kiros has circled the globe working in restaurants in Australia, Greece, Mexico, and London. Her extensive travel and multicultural background lend authenticity to more than 200 recipes, which are grouped by color and presented alongside vibrant photographs, sound cooking advice, and heartwarming anecdotes about friends, family, and the whimsies of childhood.
Kiros shares a bevy of diverse and easy-to-prepare dishes playfully themed in colored chapters. An index references both specific foods and recipes. With memories of daisy chains, ice cream cones, circuses, and four-leaf clovers, Kiros shares her belief that good food sparks cherished memories that intensify life's melting pot of flavor. A sampling of the flavors includes:
·Sage and rosemary mashed potatoes
·Pecan butter cookies
·Roast rack of pork with fennel & honey
·Pomegranate sorbet
·Roasted zucchini and tomatoes with thyme
Pan-fried sole with lemon butter
DESCRIPTION:
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5
EAN: 9780740769719
ISBN: 0740769715
Label: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Manufacturer: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: 2007-09-01
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Studio: Andrews McMeel Publishing
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS:
Customer Rating:
Summary: Beautiful!
Comment: I spent hours with this book when I first got it. The photographs are stunning and the recipes I've made are fantastic. Some are very inventive. I can't wait to make the brown bread an butter ice cream!
Customer Rating:
Summary: a nice but unreadable book
Comment: the recipes are so difficult to read in their thin print only the pictures make you feel a litte comfortable.- a nice but unreadable book.
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Summary: most enticing cookbook for you and best gift for girl friends
Comment: i've had this cookbook for 4 months now and have already cooked more recipes from it than any other i own. the photography completely draws you in to a lifestyle where quality, simplicity, beauty and imperfection are the driving forces to cook and bake delicious food. some of kiros' writing is very flowery and hokey, but it doesn't effect the overall appeal of the book. i've given this book to female friends as gifts and it has equally drawn them in as well. who knew cauliflower could be this delicious! fried custard squares? yes please!
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Summary: A for Effort, C overall
Comment: This book tries hard to enchant. Physically, it is lovely,featuring beautiful photographs. Unfortunately, it is all downhill from there. The author's memories range from the banal (finding food the kids dropped to the floor to feed the dog) to the disturbing (being dressed in a bizarre aprony dress after wetting her pants and forced to eat in the cafeteria where everyone new what the weird outfit signified). The recipes could best be described as vaguely European comfort food. Unfortunately, while the ones I tried are okay, none of them are great. For instance, the mac and cheese is better than the blue box but not nearly as tasty as Martha Stewart's. The honey cake is acceptable but can't hold a candle to Marcy Goldman's. The author has a number of homemade ice creams but none of them justify the investment of time and money, particularly when Ben & Jerry's, Hagen Dazs and cold stone creamery are easily superior. I did not find that one go to recipe and frankly, am unlikely to repeat any of the ones I did try. Factor in the confusing organization (by color) and eye tiring light gray print and this offering quickly loses its allure.
I do agree that food and childhood memories are not only linked but serve to preserve important traditions. Cooking with children is rewarding for both the kids and the adults. In a world full of fast and "franken"food, it is important to educate children. Nothing beats the taste of a fresh strawberry or a tomato right off the vine. Many kids don't enjoy fresh squeezed orange juice after years of drinking sugar laden concentrates. Cooking and baking from scratch is not all that time consuming and contribute to the health of the children and strengthen the family bonds. Unfortunately,this book is too absorbed in being cute than in blazing that trail. So enjoy the photos and skip the recipes.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Meggan's Apples for Jam
Comment: This book is a gift for my daughter, so I am unable to provide a review on the book. But if it is a book she requested, I'm assured it is a good one. The price was right.
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