The Complete Garlic Lovers' Cookbook


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Now combined in one volume, here are all the recipes from THE GARLIC LOVERS' COOKBOOKS (Volumes I and II) plus prize-winning entries from the Great Garlic Cookoffs. This volume contains over 400 recipes from around the world and also includes a garlic glossary, tips on selection and storage, and much more.




Garlic, Garlic, Garlic


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Offers two hundred garlic recipes, explores garlic's medicinal benefits and the myths associated with it, and reviews its more than fifty varieties.




For the Love of Garlic


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For the Love of Garlic takes a look at the history, lore, and many uses of this culinary treasure. It also provides over eighty tempting kitchen-tested garlic recipes that are designed to entice not only garlic aficionados, but all lovers of great cuisine. Beautifully designed and illustrated, For the Love of Garlic makes both a great gift and an informative guide.




Garlic, an Edible Biography


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Featuring over 100 delicious, garlic-laden recipes, this culinary biography offers a tour through the colorful history of one of the world’s most timeless ingredients Garlic is the Lord Byron of produce, a lusty rogue that charms and seduces you but runs off before dawn, leaving a bad taste in your mouth. Called everything from rustic cure-all to Russian penicillin, Bronx vanilla and Italian perfume, garlic has been loved, worshipped, and despised throughout history. No writer has quite captured the epic, roving story of garlic—until now. While this book does not claim that garlic saved civilization (though it might cure whatever ails you), it does take us on a grand tour of its fascinating role in history, medicine, literature, and art; its controversial role in bigotry, mythology, and superstition; and its indispensable contribution to the great cuisines of the world. And just to make sure your appetite isn’t slighted, Garlic offers over 100 recipes featuring the beloved ingredient.




The Garlic Lovers' Cookbook


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"Updated Edition containing 1980 and 1981 award winning recipes. If the aroma of gently sautéing garlic sets your mouth watering, this book is for you. Featuring recipes from around the world, including garlic laced foods from Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Mexico, China, Japan, Korea, India, Greece, and the Philippine Islands, 'The Garlic Lovers' Cookbook' also includes a garlic glossary, garlic history and mystery, and good things to know about garlic. Starting off as an idea to bring favorable attention to the often ignored multimillion dollar garlic industry centered in Gilroy, California, the first annual Garlic Festival, held in August of 1979, attracted more than 30,000 persons in two days. This cookbook is the result of community involvement in the festival. The more than 200 recipes have been tasted and tested by members of the city council, the festival committee, the growers and processors of garlic, and the 50 amateur chefs who were involved in the heart of the festival, Gourmet Alley."--




The Garlic Lovers' Cookbook


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Offers prizewinning recipes for appetizers, soups, salads, breads, desserts, and meat, poultry, seafood, and vegetable dishes that use garlic.




The Onion Lover's Cookbook with Over 100 Recipes


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This cookbook is devoted to one of the best-loved family of ingredients - onions, garlic, leeks, spring onions, shallots and chives. A comprehensive reference section discusses the culinary history of the allium and identifies all the main varieties, as well as providing a step-by-step guide to growing, preparing and cooking these versatile and popular ingredients. This is followed by 150 recipes, from classic dishes such as French Onion Soup with Gruyere Croutes to contemporary ideas such as Grilled Polenta with Caramelized Onions. Over 800 glorious photographs, informative text and enticing recipes make this book essential for every kitchen




Steak Lover's Cookbook


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Marrying simplicity and succulence, steak is a food everyone can understand, and one of the very few to inspire genuine craving. Steak is William Rice's avocation, his passion, and he's researched different preparations and flavors of steak from all over the world. A collection of over 140 recipes, steak lover's cookbook is divided between fancy uptown cuts (e.g., tenderloins, porterhouses, ribs) and the plainer but just as tasty downtown cuts (skirt, chuck, flank, round). It includes the Best-Ever recipe for each type, plus dozens of inviting alternatives, not to mention Steak Fries, Outrageous Onion Rings, and Mississippi Mud Pie. It's a steakhouse at home. 84,000 copies in print.




Curry Lover's Cookbook


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Featuring more than 115 recipes, the book offers dishes from the far-flung corners of the Indian subcontinent. There are over 480 photographs throughout: with easy-to-use step-by-step instructions for each recipe, and colour pictures of every dish.




Goose Fat and Garlic


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With over 200 authentic recipes, including 20 new recipes, for local specialities such as creme de noix and the famous cassoulets, Goose Fat & Garlic presents the entire repertoire of dishes from South-West France. Strang takes us chapter-by-chapter through regional delicacies, starting with the basic soup and continuing through to the various meats, fruits, desserts and wines. 'Rich with anecdotes, legends, the stuff of real daily life in South-West France, Goose Fat & Garlic is the kind of book you'll carry right into the kitchen, focusing your energies on meaty daubes, hearty country soups, simple salads dressed with rich, local walnut oil. As you turn the pages you can almost smell the potatoes cooking away with the garlic and parsley, and hear the sizzle of the fire as the leg of lamb turns on the spit. Culling recipes from the baker's wife, the cafe owner, anyone who would listen, Jeanne Strang has produced a book with a ring of authenticity; a must for all cooks with a sense of curiosity and a dose of ambition.' Patricia Wells.