| Title | : | The Art of Simple Food II: Recipes, Flavor, and Inspiration from the New Kitchen Garden |
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| ISBN | : | 0307718271 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9780307718273 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 |
| Publication | : | First published October 29, 2013 |
A beautiful vegetable-focused book, The Art of Simple Food II showcases flavor as inspiration and embodies Alice’s vision for eating what grows in the earth all year long. She shares her understanding of the whole plant, demystifying the process of growing and cooking your own food, and reveals the vital links between taste, cooking, gardening, and taking care of the land. Along the way, she inspires you to feed yourself deliciously through the seasons. From Rocket Salad with Babcock Peaches and Basil to Moroccan Asparagus and Spring Vegetable Ragout to Chicken with 40 Cloves of Garlic, Alice shares recipes that celebrate the ingredients she loves: tender leaf lettuces, fresh green beans, stone fruits in the height of summer, and so much more. Advice for growing your own fruits and vegetables abounds in the book—whether you are planting a garden in your backyard or on your front porch or fire escape. It is gleaned from her close relationships with local, sustainable farmers.
The Art of Simple Food II: Recipes, Flavor, and Inspiration from the New Kitchen Garden Reviews
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my favorites, things that made my eyes widen when I tasted them
Lemon Verbena Ice Cream*
Bing Cherry Roasted with Lemon Verbena
Zucchini Ribbons with Lemon and Basil
Green Rice Pilaf with Cilantro and Onions
Halibut Ceviche w/ lime
Whole Roasted Cauliflower with Parsley and Anchovy Sauce***
Borage Cocktail****
Wild Rocket with Balsamic Vinegar and Speck
Sweet-and-Sour Shallots
*I didn't do a great job of continuously stirring so the eggs did their soft set in the base mixture. I strained it out and I think that contributed to the initial run through the machine not setting. I checked proportions in the booklet that came with the machine and ended up adding additional cream.
**"2T of sugar was a lot...I sprinkled on 1T and didn't think the 2nd was needed.
I rinsed the cherries but being pretty fresh, the water beaded right off and there was nothing for the sugar to stick to. Maybe I should've tried a couple drops of neutral oil? This is why the 1T sugar seemed like enough, too."
***The sauce itself tasted bitter to me, but once I dipped the cauliflower in, I liked it better.
****Don't drink this on an empty stomach after biking on a hot day unless you want to get accidentally drunk. Oops. -
Like with most cookbooks, I mostly skimmed he pages and read only a percentage of the recipes start to finish. I can say that this is going to be one worth coming back to in the kitchen. I love that there is general advice about planting vegetables and the seasons and soil associated with them. Even more, most recipe are simple and don't require a whole lot of special ingredients. I imagine the recipes are like the dishes at her restaurant: simple, but delicious and actually tasting like the vegetables inside.
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Not inspiring. This book tries to be too many things: cookbook, garden primer, plant variety describer, compost instructor. The reader's time would be better spent with a book that gave more insight on any one of those topics.
I also found myself laughing out loud at times. Sure, for a "simple" recipe, let's just make our lamb sausage from scratch to eat with our twice-peeled fava beans. (I like both and have cooked both, but they're not simple!) And then there was the recipe that highlighted lovage. Hooray, I thought, a way to use a bunch of my lovage! And then I read the recipe: 2 teaspoons lovage. That won't make a dent in a lovage plant. -
Amazing combo of a vegetable literacy guide and an introduction to simple, effective cooking with those vegetables, with the goal of letting the inherent flavors and special qualities of the plants shine through.
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#summergoals
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A great cookbook AND garden book.
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Tried a few recipes and enjoyed them (ebook from the library). There is not enough interest to purchase the book.
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Erst einmal möchte ich etwas zu der Aufmachung sagen. Die ist wirklich unschlagbar, was ich bei dem Preis des Buches aber auch erwarten würde. Es wirkt sehr edel. Vor allem der Stoff, der das Buch teilweise einfasst, macht das Buch zu etwas besonderem. Aber auch die Gestaltung innen ist wirklich schön. Fern ab von den Hochglanzbroschüren setzt dieses Buch auf wunderschöne, detailreiche Bleistiftzeichnungen und das gefiel mir unglaublich gut. Alles ist sehr übersichtlich und wirkt nicht überladen. Schaut euch einfach mal die Leseprobe an, dann könnt ihr euch selbst ein Bild davon machen.
Die Aufteilung des Buches fand ich neu und wirklich gut gelungen. Es gibt unterschiedliche Kapitel, die je eine bestimmte Gruppe von Nahrungsmitteln beschreiben, die man aus dem eigenen Garten holen könnte. So gibt es Kapitel zu Kräutern, Salaten, Zwiebelgewächsen, Wurzel- und Knollengewächsen, Stängelgewächse... Also man findet hier alles von Kräutern über Gemüse zu Obst. Zu jedem Obst, Gemüse und Kraut gibt es eine informative Beschreibung, in der die Autorin die verschieden Arten/Sorten erwähnt, die Pflege, die Entwicklung und vielen mehr. Dann folgen immer 2 bis 4 Rezepte in denen das jeweils Obst, Gemüse oder Kraut benutzt wird. Außerdem gibt es noch ein Kapitel in denen direkt über die Haltbarmachung und anderweitige Verarbeitung gesprochen wurde. Also wie man zum Beispiel Sauerkraut herstellt, Gurken einlegt, Tomatenmark herstellt, Marmeladen einkocht und vielen mehr. Überall bringt die Autorin eigene Vorlieben und Erfahrungen mit ein und man hat wirklich das Gefühl hier das umfangreiche Wissen einer sehr erfahrenen Frau in Sachen Kochen und Garten geballt in einem dicken Buch zu Hause zu haben.
Der letzte Teil des Buches befasst sich mit Gartenarbeit an sich. Hier wird Schritt für Schritt die Anlegung eines Küchengartens beschrieben. Es wird auf die Bodenbeschaffenheit eingegangen, Kompostierung wird sehr ausführlich erklärt, Düngung, Bodenbearbeitung und vielen mehr erklärt. Gerade für Anfänger wie mich sind all diese Hinweise und Ratschläge sehr hilfreich und ausführlich beschrieben.
Die Rezepte sind klassische Hausmannskost, was ich bei einem solchen Buch aber auch erwarte. Es sind halt Rezepte, die man sich auch wirklich vorstellen kann direkt mit den eigenen Erzeugnissen aus dem Garten zuzubereiten. Allerdings werden viele verschiedene Gewürze benutzt und es gab Kombinationen auf die ich sonst nicht gekommen wäre. Man findet also definitiv viel neues. Alle Rezepte werden vor den jeweiligen Kapiteln noch einmal extra aufgelistet und so kann man sie super schnell finden, auch wenn man vielleicht nicht den Informationsteil zum Gemüse lesen möchte. Diese Lösung fand ich klasse. Natürlich gibt es am Ende des Buches aber auch ein Register mit dem man nach bestimmten Zutaten oder Rezepten suchen kann. Die Art wie die Rezepte aufgebaut sind, ist auch etwas besonderes. Die Zutaten werden einfach in der Beschreibung der Zubereitung fett hervorgehoben. Das hatte ich bisher auch noch nie gesehen und finde es überraschend platzsparend und trotzdem übersichtlich.
*Fazit:*
5 von 5 Sternen
Das Buch ist wirklich klasse, sowohl von der Aufmachung als auch vom informativen Inhalt. Ich kann es jedem Garten-Fan und jedem Kochliebhaber, der Wert auf natürliche Zutaten legt, sehr ans Herz legen. Ich kenne kein Buch das sowohl Gartenwissen als auch tolle Rezepte zum Kochen, Backen und Einlegen/Einmachen enthält, und dabei so ins Detail geht. Mir gefiel das wirklich sehr. -
This is part cookbook, part gardening how-to, part wistful trail through the author's favorite plants and their roles in cooking and the garden. It only succeeds in this last goal. The recipes are buried in walls of text and organized around main ingredients with no other uniting themes, which reads well but makes a poor reference if you actually want to cook. The gardening parts are dilute, inexpert, and mostly limited to the author's climate. Any number of permaculture-style food garden books would give much, much better theory & practical instruction. See for example
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture,
Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and Your Neighborhood into a Community, anything from
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This book came with great reviews. It is definitely a cookbook that actually needs reading and not just skimming. At this point in my life that I didn't have time. Maybe sometime I'll come back to it and actually work through all the information, instruction and recipes she provides.
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This book works best as ingredient-driven cooking inspiration for veggie gardeners who already have a variety of produce to harvest and prepare. The gardening section is too basic to be of much use to anyone who fits this description. Most of the recipes are not meals, but rather supporting fare like salads, sides or desserts that showcase the flavour of the veggies or fruit. Lots to enjoy, but constrained in scope.
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Has the qualities of cookbooks that I like: no photographs, hand-drawn pictures, and enough non-recipe text that you can "read" it cover-to-cover...which I did. I like that this book has fairly substantial sections on both gardening and preserving, but given everything that it is trying to squeeze in, it's not a replacement for dedicated books on those topics.
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Same review as for Version I, but with a star off for not being groundbreaking (dickish system? Possibly): I couldn't finish this before it had to be returned to the library, but that sentence is pretty much all you need to know about how great this is. I've never before felt compelled to "finish" a cookbook. I will be purchasing this (hopefully used) soon to add to my home library.
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The first Art of Simple Food was fantastic - loads of recipes that were accessible and interesting and delicious. This felt less accessible and less interesting. I guess since I couldn't find a single recipe to strike my fancy I can't comment on the deliciousness of the recipes. I was hoping for some inspiration for the end of winter but most of these are for spring and summer dishes. Oh well.
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This is the cookbook version of a novel I cannot put down - great characters, thought-provoking ideas, and wonderful imagery. I read it cover to cover before even trying the recipes. As good as Water's first Simple Food book and definitely a permanent part of my kitchen library.
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As much a gardening book as it is a cookbook.
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Excellent book! Amazing reference for anyones kitchen shelf! A must for any food lover!
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B+ Perfect for my level, great overview on a lot of different elements. A bit 80s and typical textbook stuff, but very thorough and useful.
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This is really excellent - it combines advice about gardening throughout the seasons with delicious and simple recipes.
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made me want to start a garden.
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This cookbook isn't as practical as some of her others but it's a lot of fun!
