Devil's Recipe - Couverture souple

Pressdee, Mr C D

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1500853100 ISBN 13 : 9781500853105

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

A culinary novelEarly 1990s: London based foodie Paul Curzon and his friend Tony hear an old hotel in a great location is up for sale. Tony brings in contacts, including a financial backer, the charismatic Lady Fiona Snaples, to put a successful business and catering package together. Paul is to be the figurehead to develop a top gastronomic destination working with the financial directors. They enlist staff including the sexily provocative Frieda, and take help and advice from locals who appear friendly. But as things progress Paul is made aware of some old local legends. Retired and slightly batty History Professor relates a tale that explains why some people in the area become twisted and envious. But is his warning too late? Gradually the team's position and trust is undermined, something they cannot understand. They strive to demonstrate organisation and culinary ability, yet does the pettiness and jealousy relent? CHAP 1 Aromats There is a communion of more than bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk. M.F.K.Fisher2 Cuisiner I would forgo four or five meals for one... he sets standards by which all others must be judged. Richard Binns3 Hors d'oeuvres The purpose is to stimulate the appetite not drown it… with tastes and textures that vary as much as possible. Robert Carrier4 La sauteuse Ambition is like choler; which is an humour that maketh men active, earnest, full of alacrity... Francis Bacon6 En cocotte The encouragement of fine food is not greed or gourmandise; it indicates concern for the quality of environment. Jane Grigson7 First degustation He is a cook of great imagination and intelligence, which is rather rare in his profession…. He realized… one can no longer ‘invent’ cuisine; one must rediscover it, recreate it! Robert Courtine8 Brayaude What a pity you didn't turn up an hour before supper, and see the labour, the drudgery, and the imagination that made your pleasant evening. Alistair Cooke9 Blanquette of savours A man that hath no virtue in himself ever envieth virtue in others. Francis Bacon10 Trou Normand A verbal agreement isn't worth the paper it's not written upon. L.B.Mayer11 Courquignoise My business partner has a passion for money that is virtually a sickness. I am constantly being embarrassed by it. Groucho Marx12 Elusive veloute There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result. Churchill14 Reducing the stock Although modern opinion might be right in its lower estimation of the merits of its flesh, there is… a special sensation which its consumption affords to the imaginative diner… Alan Davidson15 Deglazing the pan Cooking is an art and its appreciation, therefore, is governed by the law which applies to all artistic appreciation. W.H.Auden18 Echiquier There is no better way to moderate suspicions, than to account upon such suspicions as true, and yet to bridle them as false. Francis Bacon19 Masked with sauce. Few of us can honestly admit… we have not swanked, gastronomically. M.F.K.Fisher20 Ballotine There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them. Churchill23 Simmering ragout The sculptor's work lives almost for ever… but the cook's is destroyed in an hour... Stephen Lister25 Estouffade It is precisely the sort of dish… ennobled by the chef’s creative intelligence. Robert Courtine26 Desosse When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite. Churchill 28 Slipper limpets His policies, such as they are, are conceived in hate and illiteracy. Alistair Cooke29 Degustation The invention of a new dish adds more to the happiness of mankind than the discovery of a star. Brillat-Savarin30 Petromyzon Once it has located its victim… the effects are invariably fatal. Alan Davidson31 Digestif ... the mysterious appetite that often surges in us when our hearts are about to break and our lives seem too bleakly empty. M.F.K.FisherEnd

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

C D Pressdee was brought up on the Gower Peninsula. Fishing on rivers and the sea and appreciation of the countryside are life-long passions. Following many years in restaurants and catering, he has written for various publications including The Times, Observer, Western Mail and BBC Good Food on food, wine, travel and country matters. He has presented many food programmes on television, radio and at festivals. His travels have broadened his culinary and life experiences, whether to mountains in Yemen, remote eastern islands, and many cosmopolitan cities. He has lived in London for over twenty years. His non-fiction publications include ‘London Oyster Guide’, ‘Food Wales’, and 'Welsh Coastal Cookery'. 'Devil's Recipe' draws upon his broad experiences in the food and catering industry together with some old legends of envy and jealousy. He has also published the sinister fictional travelogue 'Reflections of a Vampire' that was inspired by his voyages and the dark side of urban and rural life in many different settings.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1500853100
• ISBN 13: 9781500853105
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 538
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg