A Wandering Feast or For the Love of Garlic

A Wandering Feast: Journey Through Jewish Culture of Eastern Europe

Author: Yale Strom

An original and uplifting view of a world lost, reborn, and rediscovered This is a delightful book that welcomes the reader to a wonderful journey through the Jewish culture of Eastern Europe: the still-vibrant villages and homes, the Yiddish folkways, the toe-tapping Klezmer music, and heart-warming traditional food. Yale Strom documented his journey--organized around fourteen specific visits to authentic villages in Eastern Europe--with a fascinating travelogue that includes inspiring stories, photographs, music that has never been printed, and recipes. He reveals that a culture long feared to be gone forever is still very much alive.

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For the Love of Garlic: The Complete Guide to Garlic Cuisine

Author: Victoria Renoux

If you have a passion for the robust flavor and pungent aroma of garlic, here is a book guaranteed to both delight and satisfy. If you are simply interested in learning more about this amazingly popular plant, this book will fascinate you with the secrets of garlic's centuries-old magic. For the Love of Garlic is a celebration of an astonishingly versatile food. It explores garlic's past and present, and provides a wide variety of delicious kitchen-tested garlic recipes designed to tempt not only garlic aficionados, but all lovers of great cuisine Part One begins by looking at the history, lore, and many uses of this culinary treasure. It examines how garlic's active compounds have been proven to heal illness and maintain radiant health. Also included is a section on growing and buying this gourmet marvel. Part Two indulges in the tastes and pleasures of garlic. The author first discusses cooking techniques and special utensils that can enhance the use of this ingredient. She then offers eighty-five tempting dishes that will allow you to indulge all your garlic fantasies.

Whether given as a gift or used as a personal reference, this beautifully designed and illustrated work will prove itself to be a useful and informative guide time and time again.

Library Journal

Does the mention of 40-Clove Garlic Chicken make your mouth water? Are you interested in learning about the history and healing powers of garlic? Perhaps you'd like to know how to throw a garlic-tasting party? If the answer to these questions is yes, then natural foods author Renoux (The Arrowhead Mills Cookbook) has written the book for you. Much more than a cookbook, this covers the history, varieties, and properties of one of the most popular kitchen ingredients. In fact, only about one quarter of the text is recipes, so those looking strictly for new ways to use the pungent herb might be disappointed. The recipes included are mostly easy-to-prepare standards, although often with a twist from a unique ingredient or two. An example of this would be tabbouleh made with Quinoa rather than the usual Bulgur wheat. All recipes emphasize healthful, fresh ingredients and, of course, lots of garlic. Overall, an interesting treatise on an item most of us use but probably know little about; purchase for larger cookery collections or where there is interest.-Susan Hurst, Miami Univ. of Ohio Libs., Oxford Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.