Mediterranean Street Food: Stories, Soups, Snacks, Sandwiches, Barbecues, Sweets, And More from Europe, North Africa, And the Middle East - Brossura

Helou, Anissa

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0060891513 ISBN 13: 9780060891510

Casa editrice: William Morrow Cookbooks, 2006

Riassunto

Celebrates the foods of Mediterranean street vendors and simple shopkeepers, offering a host of recipes for soups, salads, snacks, sandwiches, breads, one-pot meals, desserts and sweets, barbecues, and drinks, including such fare as Spanish tortillas, Italian panini, Moroccan tagines, Turkish kebabs, Egyptian ful medammes, and French pan bagnat. Reprint.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Anissa Helou is a writer, journalist, and broadcaster. Born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon, she knows the Mediterranean as only a well-traveled native can. Lebanese Cuisine, her first book, was nominated for the prestigious Andre Simon Award and was named one of the best cookbooks of 1998 by the Los Angeles Times. Mediterranean Street Food was described by the New York Times as "a marvelous book." It won the Gourmand World Cookbook Award 2002 as the best Mediterranean cuisine book in English. Helou lives in London, where she has her own cooking school, Anissa's School. She appears frequently on British television and radio. She has written many articles for the Weekend Financial Times, and has contributed to several other publications including Gourmet, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post. An accomplished photographer and intrepid traveler, Helou is fluent in French and Arabic as well as English.

Product Description:

Who can resist a chickpea fritter in Nice, a kebab in Athens, an aniseed cookie in Tuscany, hummus in Tel Aviv, stuffed zucchini in Genoa, or a potato omelet in Spain? Cold or hot, sweet or savory, street food is everyone's temptation.Anissa Helou loves street food. When she travels, she stops at every tea cart, sandwich stand, and candy stall to trade stories with local vendors and learn the recipes that tempt the crowds. Join her on a fascinating adventure around the Mediterranean, where eating on the street is a way of life. Learn the secret ingredients to the perfect Stuffed Mussels sold on the streets of Istanbul. Come along to a Berber woman's Moroccan Bread stall in Marrakech. Buy a sweet, sticky Semolina Cake from a cart in Cairo. From simple salads to fragrant barbecues to irresistible dips and drinks, each dish can be enjoyed on its own, or two or three may be combined to make a meal. With lively black-and-white photographs from Anissa's travels and more than eighty-five fast, flexible, flavorful recipes, Mediterranean Street Food offers home cooks the chance to experience the tastes of distant lands without leaving the kitchen.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: William Morrow Cookbooks
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0060891513
• ISBN 13: 9780060891510
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 277