The Perfect Picnic - Couverture rigide

Leyel, Hilda

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0224086782 ISBN 13 : 9780224086783

Editeur : Square Peg, 2011

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Take a warm summer's day, a secluded spot in the dappled shade, a blanket and a bottle of wine, friends and family, and a spread of delicious homemade food, and you have that timeless rustic idyll - the Great British picnic.

Perfect picnic food is simple, elegant and delicious, based around much-loved classics. Hilda Leyel, who wrote this book in 1936, was extraordinarily before her time. She influenced generations of foodies with her wonderfully inventive recipes , where retro meets modern, such as:

Egg mayonnaise on crusty bread

Watercress, beetroot and nasturtium salad

Chicken and leek pie

Spiced plum cake and salted almonds

She championed local, seasonal ingredients like watercress and asparagus; she promoted traditional recipes from raised pies to strawberries and cream; and she set a benchmark of refinement with crab soufflé and spaghetti and truffles.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Hilda Leyel was born in 1880, and was an expert cook and herbalist. She wrote numerous books about both subjects, and The Gentle Art of Cookery and Elixirs of Life are her best-known books about each. With training in medicine and a lifelong interest in botany, she founded the Society of Herbalists and set up the Culpeper shops, both of which continue today. She was a fellow of the Royal Institution and l'Academie Francaise. She died in 1957.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Square Peg
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0224086782
• ISBN 13: 9780224086783
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 160