This author became renowned for her vibrant cookbooks, introducing readers to the flavors of the Mediterranean. Her writing is deeply rooted in personal experience, spanning an adventurous life from acting to wartime escapes that took her through diverse cultural landscapes. Encounters in Greece and Egypt, alongside studies in Paris, shaped her perspective on food and inspired her distinctive style. Through her unique approach to popularizing exotic ingredients and cuisines, she significantly influenced the British culinary scene and inspired countless others.
A guide to provincial French cooking. Divided into sections on soups, fish, eggs, luncheon, supper and family dishes, meat, poultry, game, vegetables, salads, sauces and sweets, it gives recipes that range from a primitive peasant soup of the Basque country to the refined Lyonnaise dish of Poulet a la Creme.
Elizabeth David's Italian Food was one of the first books to demonstrate the enormous range of Italy's regional cooking. For the foods of Italy, explained David, expanded far beyond minestrone and ravioli, to the complex traditions of Tuscany, Sicily, Lombardy, Umbria, and many other regions. David imparts her knowledge from her many years in Italy, exploring, researching, tasting and testing dishes. Her passion for real food, luscious, hearty, fresh, and totally authentic, will inspire anyone who wishes to recreate the abundant and highly unique regional dishes of Italy. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Elizabeth David aims to induce a desire to use each recipe as soon as it is read, describing recipes like pot au feu in all their simplicity. She presents cooking without elaboration. Advice is also included on the choice of the tools that would always be needed in any kitchen.
Long acknowledged as the inspiration for such modern masters as Julia Child and Claudia Roden, A Book of Mediterranean Food is Elizabeth David's passionate mixture of recipes, culinary lore, and frank talk. In bleak postwar Great Britain, when basics were rationed and fresh food a fantasy, David set about to cheer herself --and her audience-- up with dishes from the south of France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, and the Middle East. Some are sumptuous, many are simple, most are sublime.
For the great English food writer Elizabeth David, summer fare means neither tepid nor timid. Her stress is always on fresh, seasonal food-- recipes that can be quickly prepared and slowly savored, from Gnocchi alla Genovese ("simply an excuse for eating pesto") to La Poule au Pot to Gooseberry Fool. Divided into such sections as Soup, Poultry and Game, Vegetables, and Dessert, her 1955 classic includes an overview of herbs as well as chapters on impromptu cooking for holidays and picnics. Chockablock with both invaluable instructions and tart rejoinders to the pallid and the overblown, Summer Cooking is a witty, precise companion for feasting in the warmer months.
Introduces a dreary post-war Britain to the sun-drenched culinary delights of the Mediterranean; to foods like olive oil and pasta, artichokes and fresh herbs - foods that have become the staples of our diets today. This title offers twelve chapters that guide the readers from tasty soups and starters, through to meat, fish and desserts.
An Omelette and a Glass of Wine, offers 62 articles originally written by Elizabeth David between 1955 and 1984 for numerous publications including The Spectator, Gourmet magazine, Vogue, and The Sunday Times. This revered classic volume contains delightful explorations of food and cooking.
Including extracts and recipes from Elizabeth David's writings, this book covers life in France, picnics, bread ovens and the making of mayonnaise.
Elizabeth David produced a series of simple black and white booklets. Grub Street is delighted to have acquired the rights to these booklets and we are redesigning them as four hardback books in a slip case with specially commissioned beautiful artwork making them the perfect gift item.
