Alice Waters SIMPLE FOOD I & II 2 Book Lot Cookbook Recipes Kitchen Garden

by Alice Waters

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First edition

Alice Waters: The Art of Simple Food I & II — 2 Book Lot Alice Waters' cooking emphasizes fresh, seasonal ingredients, simple preparation, and the bond between food and the people who grow it. The Art of Simple Food begins with fundamentals, including ingredients and pantry organization, menu planning, essential sauces, salads, bread, broth and soup, beans, pasta and polenta, and everyday cooking. Recipes include Grilled Sirloin Steak with Herbs, Roasted Root Vegetables, Fresh Pasta, and Peach Crisp or Cobbler. In The Art of Simple Food II, Waters focuses on the garden and on the varieties of fruits, vegetables, herbs, and other ingredients that shape her cooking. She devotes chapters to herbs and herb flowers, salad greens, roots and tubers, beans, squash, tomatoes, peppers, chicories, berries, stone fruits, citrus, and preserving. In the second part of the book she covers garden planning, soil, preparing beds, seeds and seedlings, cultivation, harvesting, and fruit in the garden. Recipes include Grilled Jimmy Nardello and Padrón Peppers, Santa Rosa Plum Cake, and Royal Blenheim Apricot Sorbet. Together, the two volumes show the breadth of Waters's ingredient-centered approach, from learning the fundamentals of cooking and making the most of fresh ingredients to growing, selecting, and preserving the food used in the kitchen. Both books are in VERY GOOD condition. The Art of Simple Food has a pictorial cover. The Art of Simple Food II has a pictorial cover with fading to the

• Publisher: Clarkson Potter/ Publishers
• Condition: Very Good

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