The Centaur's Kitchen: A Book of French, Italian, Greek & Catalan Dishes for Ships' Cooks on the Blue Funnel Line - Couverture souple

Gray, Patience

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1903018730 ISBN 13 : 9781903018736

Editeur : Prospect Books, 2009

Synopsis

The Centaur's Kitchen is a wonderfully evocative cookery manual by one of England's greatest modern food-writers. It was written in 1964, at the request of the Blue Funnel Line shipping company chairman, to better instruct their Chinese cooks in cooking fresh and flavoursome food. In a few short chapters, Patience Gray lays out a whole repertoire, drawn mainly from the Mediterranean and France, that might be cooked on board ships. Her aim was to wean the cooks off frozen, dried and packeted food and to respond to both the seasons and the supplies available at ports of call. The style of cookery was much as in her first book Plats du Jour (1957): retro to us, bourgeois French in another form of shorthand. The style of writing is eloquent and prescriptive: the author keen to impart good habits as well as good cooking. Thus there are chapters about equipment and kitchen basics as well as mere recipes. The text has been illustrated by Miranda Gray, the author's daughter. Many of the pictures draw on Greek mythology. The reason for this is the Blue Funnel Line's custom of naming its ships for mythological figures (Centaur, Ariadne, Neptune, etc). Other drawings evoke the author's life beside the Mediterranean in Italy and the Greek isles.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Patience Gray is the famed author of Honey From a Weed, and died in 2005. Her work has always been the intellectual acme of the cookery-book world. Although her output was tiny, her fame is infinite.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Prospect Books
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1903018730
• ISBN 13: 9781903018736
• Reliure: Broché
• Illustrateur: Gray Miranda
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible