Author : Ismail Merchant
Publisher : Plume Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,87 MB
Release : 2001-01-04
Category : Cooking, Indic
ISBN : 9780452282322
His partnership with director James Ivory has yielded a succession of acclaimed and award-winning films, including A Room with a View, Howard's End and The Remains of the Day. But Merchant's talents extend into the culinary world as well, as evidenced by this exquisite collection of over 100 recipes from his native India.
Author : Ismail Merchant
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 31,27 MB
Release :
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ISBN : 9780140295733
Tantalizing, Exquisite, And Remarkably Original Dishes From A Talented And Imaginative Master Chef Ismail Merchant Draws On His Childhood Memories Of Exquisite Indian Food To Create Quick, Delicious Meals. Included Here Are Hors D'Oeuvres And Drinks (Mustard And Chive Prawn Bites, Beer And Lemon), Soups (Ginger Broccoli Soup In Just Twenty-Five Minutes), Fish, Poultry And Eggs, Meat (Lamb With Onion And Tomatoes In Less Than Forty-Five Minutes), Vegetables, Salads, Rice, Lentils, Sweets (Cinnamon-Brandy Baked Pears, Sweet Saffron Rice), Pickles And Chutneys-Tasty, Fast-Cooking Meals Delivered In Clear, Easy-To-Follow Recipes, Along With Ismail'S Insider Anecdotes About Films And Stars. A Wonderful Book By A Brilliant And Passionate Cook. 'It Is An Exemplary Work And One Of The Most Original Departures From What You Normally Expect A Book On Indian Cooking To Be. It Is Not National. It Does Not Deal With Traditional Concepts. And It Is Not Regional. It Is Simply One Man'S Inspired Notion Of What His Native Land'S Food Should Taste Like. It Is Tailored To His Own Sophisticated And Remarkably Original Palate. And The Recipes Are Easy To Follow.' -Craig Claiborne
Author : Ismail Merchant
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,90 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Cooking, Indic
ISBN : 9780140295740
The New Indian Cuisine for Fearless Cooks and Adventurous Eaters Ismail Merchantýs Indian Cuisine, the celebrated producerýs first collection of recipes, was hailed by the New York Times as one of the ten best cookbooks of the year. Now, in Ismail Merchantýs Passionate Meals, the author leads fellow cooks further along on his odyssey, offering over a hundred new, tantalizing recipes. The collection opens with a series of delicious appetizers to whet dinersý appetites, from refreshing lassi to spicy vegetable fritters. Main courses, including meat, poultry, or seafood, represent the author at his most creative, lending American staples like veal, turkey, and even hamburgers exciting new dimensions. Passionate Meals closes with a selection of Indiaýs superb breads, pickles, chutneys and sweets, which Merchant, following Indian custom, shares as a gesture of goodwill and friendship. For grand entertaining, as well as for casual and delicious cooking out of the ordinary, Ismail Merchantýs Passionate Meals is a welcome reminder that food still has the capacity to nourish and be an adventure.
Author : Ismail Merchant
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 27,5 MB
Release : 2012-04-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1617032379
Interviews with the team that created the films Howard's End, Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, The Remains of the Day, The White Countess, and The City of Your Final Destination, among many others
Author : Amanda Hesser
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 2126 pages
File Size : 34,82 MB
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 132400228X
A KCRW Top 10 Food Book of 2021 A Minnesota Star Tribune Top 15 Cookbook of 2021 A WBUR Here & Now Favorite Cookbook of 2021 The James Beard Award–winning and New York Times best-selling compendium of the paper’s best recipes, revised and updated. Ten years after the phenomenal success of her once-in-a-generation cookbook, former New York Times food editor Amanda Hesser returns with an updated edition for a new wave of home cooks. She has added 120 new but instantly iconic dishes to her mother lode of more than a thousand recipes, including Samin Nosrat’s Sabzi Polo (Herbed Rice with Tahdig), Todd Richards’s Fried Catfish with Hot Sauce, and J. Kenji López-Alt’s Cheesy Hasselback Potato Gratin. Devoted Times subscribers as well as newcomers to the paper’s culinary trove will also find scores of timeless gems such as Purple Plum Torte, David Eyre’s Pancake, Pamela Sherrid’s Summer Pasta, and classics ranging from 1940s Caesar Salad to modern No-Knead Bread. Hesser has tested and adapted each of the recipes, and she highlights her go-to favorites with wit and warmth. As Saveur declared, this is a “tremendously appealing collection of recipes that tells the story of American cooking.”
Author : James Ivory
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 43,45 MB
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0374601607
The irreverent, brilliant memoirs of the legendary filmmaker James Ivory In Solid Ivory, a carefully crafted mosaic of memories, portraits, and reflections, the Academy Award–winning filmmaker James Ivory, a partner in the legendary Merchant Ivory Productions and the director of A Room with a View, Howards End, Maurice, and The Remains of the Day, tells stories from his remarkable life and career as one of the most influential directors of his time. At times, he touches on his love affairs, looking back coolly and with unexpected frankness. From first meeting his collaborator and life partner, Ismail Merchant, at the Indian Consulate in New York to winning an Academy Award at age eighty-nine for Call Me by Your Name; from seeing his first film at age five in Klamath Falls, Oregon, to memories of Satyajit Ray, Jean Renoir, The New Yorker magazine’s film critic Pauline Kael (his longtime enemy), Vanessa Redgrave, J. D. Salinger, George Cukor, Kenneth Clark, Bruce Chatwin, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, and Merchant—Ivory writes with invariable fluency, wit, and perception about what made him who he is and how he made the movies for which he is known and loved. Solid Ivory, edited by Peter Cameron, is an utterly winning portrait of an extraordinary life told by an unmatched storyteller.
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Page : 822 pages
File Size : 22,12 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Cooking
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Author : Amanda Hesser
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 1655 pages
File Size : 36,55 MB
Release : 2010-10-25
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0393247678
A New York Times bestseller and Winner of the James Beard Award All the best recipes from 150 years of distinguished food journalism—a volume to take its place in America's kitchens alongside Mastering the Art of French Cooking and How to Cook Everything. Amanda Hesser, co-founder and CEO of Food52 and former New York Times food columnist, brings her signature voice and expertise to this compendium of influential and delicious recipes from chefs, home cooks, and food writers. Devoted Times subscribers will find the many treasured recipes they have cooked for years—Plum Torte, David Eyre's Pancake, Pamela Sherrid's Summer Pasta—as well as favorites from the early Craig Claiborne New York Times Cookbook and a host of other classics—from 1940s Caesar salad and 1960s flourless chocolate cake to today's fava bean salad and no-knead bread. Hesser has cooked and updated every one of the 1,000-plus recipes here. Her chapter introductions showcase the history of American cooking, and her witty and fascinating headnotes share what makes each recipe special. The Essential New York Times Cookbook is for people who grew up in the kitchen with Claiborne, for curious cooks who want to serve a nineteenth-century raspberry granita to their friends, and for the new cook who needs a book that explains everything from how to roll out dough to how to slow-roast fish—a volume that will serve as a lifelong companion.
Author : Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,92 MB
Release : 1987
Category : British
ISBN : 0671646575
Winner of the Booker Prize as best novel of the year in 1983, Heat and Dust was also made into a major motion picture starring Julie Christie, now regarded by many as a classic.
Author : Jed Dannenbaum
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,58 MB
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1451603606
Five keys to creating authentic, distinctive work, whether you are a student, professional or simply love making films on your own For Creative Filmmaking from the Inside Out, three professors at the renowned University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television interviewed fifteen outstanding filmmakers, then distilled their insights into the "Five I's" of creativity. Learn how to: • Uncover your unique creative voice (Introspection) • Work from real-life observations and experience (Inquiry) • Draw on your nonconscious wells of creativity (Intuition) • Strengthen your creative collaborations (Interaction) • Communicate at the deepest level with your audience (Impact) This comprehensive approach provides practical exercises that will enrich and transform your work, whether you are looking for a story idea, lighting a set, editing a scene or selecting a music cue. The participating filmmakers, who have collectively won or been nominated for 39 Oscars and 27 Emmys, are: Anthony Minghella, writer-director (The English Patient); Kimberly Peirce, writer-director (Boys Don't Cry); John Lasseter, writer-director-producer (Toy Story); John Wells, writer-producer (ER); Hanif Kureishi, writer (My Beautiful Laundrette); Pamela Douglas, writer (Between Mother and Daughter); Renee Tajima-Pe?a, director-producer (My America...or, Honk If You Love Buddha); Ismail Merchant, producer (The Remains of the Day); Jeannine Oppewall, production designer (L.A. Confidential); Conrad L. Hall, cinematographer (American Beauty); Kathy Baker, actor (Picket Fences); Walter Murch, sound designer-editor (Apocalypse Now); Lisa Fruchtman, editor (The Right Stuff); Kate Amend, editor (Into the Arms of Strangers); and James Newton Howard, composer (The Sixth Sense).
