Butter: A Celebration: An array of stunning recipes showcasing this delicious ingredient; from buttery scrambled eggs to the perfect scones
Autor Olivia Pottsen Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 sep 2022
Observăm o tendință în literatura gastronomică actuală de a trata ingredientele de bază fie prin prisma istoriei, fie prin cea a tehnicii pure. Butter: A Celebration reușește să creeze un punct de echilibru, propunând o perspectivă unde utilitatea practică întâlnește plăcerea senzorială. Subliniem faptul că, spre deosebire de Butter de Elaine Khosrova, unde accentul cade pe parcursul cultural și istoric global al acestui aliment, Olivia Potts se concentrează pe „alchimia” transformării culinare: modul în care un singur ingredient poate eleva un preparat de la stadiul de banal la cel de rafinat.
Considerăm că parcursul autoarei — trecerea de la baroul de drept penal la rigoarea școlii Le Cordon Bleu — aduce volumului o claritate rară. Dacă în lucrarea sa precedentă, A Half Baked Idea, Potts explora teme precum doliul și vindecarea prin cofetărie, în acest nou titlu vedem o maturizare a stilului, orientată către celebrarea tehnică a gustului. Subliniem prezența unor tehnici esențiale, precum obținerea untului brun („beurre noisette”) sau utilizarea buttermilk-ului, explicate cu precizia unui profesionist, dar pe înțelesul bucătarului amator.
Rețetele selectate, de la ouă turcești cu iaurt și unt cu ardei iute, până la complexul brioche feuilletée, demonstrează o versatilitate surprinzătoare. Nu este doar o colecție de formule, ci un ghid despre cum grăsimea nobilă poate schimba radical structura unui sos sau profunzimea unei fripturi. Stilul narativ este cald și documentat, integrând armonios istoria și patiseria, reflectând astfel expertiza unei autoare care a fost deja recunoscută prin premii prestigioase precum Fortnum & Mason Debut Food Book Award.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 147228464X
Pagini: 368
Ilustrații: Full colour
Dimensiuni: 196 x 248 x 26 mm
Greutate: 1.32 kg
Editura: Headline
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Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
De ce să citești această carte
Pentru pasionații de gastronomie care vor să înțeleagă secretul din spatele texturilor fine și al aromelor bogate. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a tehnicilor de gătire cu unt (infuzare, emulsionare, rumenire), trecând dincolo de simpla utilizare a acestuia ca grăsime. Este o recomandare excelentă pentru cei care apreciază scriitura culinară de calitate, oferind atât rigoarea tehnică a unui chef, cât și bucuria unei mese pregătite acasă.
Descriere
'This is, quite frankly, my dream book. Buttery bliss from cover to cover' Nigella Lawson
'The last word on butter. Everyone who cooks needs this book' Diana Henry
Swirled into hot sugar to create a silken, smoky caramel, or browned until nutty and speckled before being folded through cake batter or buttercream. Dotted on to vegetables before roasting or braising, stirred through rice after cooking. Butter won't just transform your individual dishes, but will transform your way of cooking
Butter: A Celebration is a joyous immersion in all things butter, revelling in its alchemical power to transform almost any dish, from good to transcendent.
Award-winning food writer Olivia Potts takes us on a grand tour of butter and its many varied applications, from old school chicken Kiev to mille-feuille, from oysters Rockefeller to saffron and yoghurt tahdig. This is a book to be savoured for its wonderful writing, as well as for its irresistible recipes and expert introduction to patisserie, too. Full of history, anecdotes and, of course, delicious recipes resplendent with butter, it includes:
*Turkish eggs with yoghurt and chill butter
*Butter-basted rib eye steak
*Steamed artichoke with anchovy butter
*Grilled kippers with horseradish butter
*Buttermilk pancakes
*Sticky gingerbread
*French salted butter biscuits
*Brioche feuilletée
*Damson plum crumble
Praise for A Half-Baked Idea by Olivia Potts:
'Uplifting' Prue Leith
'Wit and warmth on every page' The Times
'An utterly beautiful, moving, bittersweet book. I loved it' Dolly Alderton
Recenzii
The last word on butter. Everyone who cooks needs this book.
A love letter to the household staple.
An uplifting tribute to the singular power of butter to elevate any dish, whether basted onto juicy grilled scallops or drizzled over brioche.
Olivia's book walks through the fundamentals of cooking with butter . . . then ventures into recipes and techniques to bring the best out of butter and transform your cooking.
Butter is a mighty subject and Olivia Potts knows more than a thing or two about it. This kind of book can be daunting for both author and reader - there's so much to cover - but Potts has been masterful in her choice of recipes and the techniques she focuses on. Her voice is warm, never dry or instructional. As she stands by your side in the kitchen, she makes even the most complicated buttery confection seem possible. If you've always wanted to get to grips with butter - to understand how it works - this book is essential. I'll be working my way through it.
It takes a certain chutzpah to write an entire cookbook dedicated to butter, but Olivia Potts carries it off. Her devotion to the yellow fat is endearing. In a collection of excellent recipes and essays she makes the case for more buttery delight in our lives. As she explains, butter has the power to transform the flavour and texture of countless dishes, from mashed potatoes and scrambled eggs to lobster rolls and tarte au citron.
This is, quite frankly, my dream book. Buttery bliss from cover to cover.
'If you want to be a good cook, a joyful cook, you need to understand butter.'
Butter: A Celebration is a joyous immersion in all things butter, revelling in its alchemical power to transform almost any dish, from good to transcendent.
Award-winning food writer Olivia Potts takes us on a grand tour of butter and its many varied applications, from old school chicken Kiev to millefeuille, from oysters Rockefeller to Iranian tahdig. This is a book to be savoured for its wonderful writing, as well as for its irresistible recipes and expert introduction to patisserie, too. Full of history, anecdotes and, of course, delicious recipes resplendent with butter, it includes:
*Turkish eggs with yoghurt and chill butter
*Butter-basted rib eye steak
*Steamed artichoke with anchovy butter
*Grilled kippers with horseradish butter
*Buttermilk pancakes
*Sticky gingerbread
*French salted butter biscuits
*Brioche feuilletée
*Damson plum crumble