Winner!
Julia Child Cookbook Award
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- When you're hungry, roast.
- When you're in a rush, roast.
- When you're in doubt, roast.
- When you're entertaining, roast.
Crank up the oven and throw
in a chicken; roasting is simply the best way to concentrate and deepen
flavor, to seal in succulence, and make robust, crusty, and sweet all
kinds of meats, birds, fish, fruits, and vegetables. Roasting offers
more flavor on its own than any other cooking technique. Everything you
need for a lifetime of happy roasting can be found here in the pages of
Barbara Kafka's ground-breaking new book. Even baby goat, a suckling
pig, and loin of buffalo make it into this bible of roasting.
Roasting is
absolutely essential, whether you're planning to roast a potato or leg
of lamb, a turkey or a tomato, a pepper or a red snapper. Barbara's
fussless high-temperature method caramelizes the surface of meat, the
skin of birds or fish, or the outside of vegetables, transforming them
into such savory sweet dishes as Roast Chicken with Pomegranate Glaze
and Fresh Mint, aromatic Garlic Roast Pork Loin, moist and sweet
Roasted Striped Bass with Fennel, and Whole Roasted Peaches with Ginger
Syrup.
Replete with all the tables, timing charts, and the encyclopedic wisdom that are hallmarks of every Barbara Kafka book, Roasting: A Simple Art is a dream of a cookbook, one that will soon bear the soils, stains, and well-worn pages of constant and creative use.
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