For forty-five years, renowned pastry chef Jan Hedh has been baking cookies, cakes, tarts, and pies. Over a lifetime immersed in the dessert traditions of his native Sweden, he has refined the art of baking to produce flawless recipes like the ones collected here. This sumptuous compendium features 277 kinds of baked goods, including recipes for classic Swedish …
In this second volume, the author continues to share his decades of experience with professional tips and trade secrets from restaurants around the world. In addition to dozens of restaurant-tested recipes (each one with highly detailed step-by-step directions), this volume contains a wealth of information on such topics as producing your own dried seasonings from unexpected ingredients, technical …
New paperback edition!The cuisine of Estonia, the northernmost of the Baltic nations, is little known outside the country s borders. Simple and satisfying, the cuisine is based on such staples as potatoes, pork, preserved fish, and dark bread. Sauces are made from milk, sour cream, or cottage cheese and the main flavorings are salt and pepper, onions, and …
“Art of Lithuanian Cooking is a culinary showcase of palate-pleasing regional delights.” –The Midwest Book Review “Here is a collection of Lithuanian recipes that will be welcome on any table.” –The International Cookbook Revue This favorite Hippocrene cookbook includes over 150 authentic Lithuanian recupes such as “Fresh Cucumber Soup,” “Lithuanian Meat Pockets,” “Hunter’s Stew,” “Potato Zeppelins,” as well …
Discover the fascinating details of Russian history, culture and eating habits and enjoy the tasty delights of the vast country that spans through 11 time zones and brings together more than 180 ethnic groups. Detailing the evolution and development of traditional Russian cooking, this book gives a better understanding of the foods that are now known as classical …
Classic Recipes of Russia: Traditional Food and Cooking in 25 Authentic Dishes
This wonderful collection of recipes features some of the varied delights of Russian cuisine, from warming soups, filling dumplings and spicy pastries to irresistible stroganoffs and desserts. Tempting photographs of every finished dish are sure to …
The Veselka Cookbook: Recipes and Stories from the Landmark Restaurant in New York’s East Village
For more than fifty years, customers have crowded into Veselka, a cozy Ukrainian coffee shop in New York City’s East Village, to enjoy pierogi, borscht, goulash, and many other unpretentious favorites. Veselka (rainbow in Ukrainian) has grown from a simple newsstand serving soup and sandwiches into a twenty-four-hour gathering place, without ever leaving its original location on the …
In this third installment the author expounds on the principles of organic chemistry as it relates to food science, interwoven with more than 50 detailed recipes, most of which have accompanying online videos. This unusual book fills a niche that is sorely missing in the literature. Namely, how specific flavors are produced by chemical reactions during cooking and …
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing
A James Beard Award-winning writer captures life under the Red socialist banner in this wildly inventive, tragicomic memoir of feasts, famines, and three generations Born in 1963, in an era of bread shortages, Anya grew up in a communal Moscow apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen. She sang odes to Lenin, black-marketeered Juicy Fruit gum at school, watched her father brew …
The Georgian Feast: The Vibrant Culture and Savory Food of the Republic of Georgia
“Every Georgian dish is a poem.”—Alexander Pushkin According to Georgian legend, God took a supper break while creating the world. He became so involved with his meal that he inadvertently tripped over the high peaks of the Caucasus, spilling his food onto the land below. The land blessed by Heaven’s table scraps …