The Lost Orchard: A French chef rediscovers a great British food heritage. Foreword by The Former Prince of Wales
Autor Raymond Blancen Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 sep 2020
Abordarea lui Raymond Blanc față de gastronomie a depășit întotdeauna granițele bucătăriei, ancorându-se profund în pământul care oferă materia primă. În The Lost Orchard, găsim mai mult decât un simplu volum de rețete; este o pledoarie pasionată pentru biodiversitate și o scrisoare de dragoste adresată livezilor uitate ale Marii Britanii. Stilul autorului îmbină rigoarea tehnică a unui chef cu două stele Michelin cu nostalgia caldă a copilăriei petrecute în Franța, rezultând o lucrare care celebrează gustul autentic, cel care nu a fost sacrificat pe altarul aspectului comercial.
Suntem de părere că această carte oferă o perspectivă rară asupra modului în care un mare maestru bucătar alege să lupte împotriva standardizării gustului. Pe aceeași linie cu Heritage Apples de Caroline Ball, The Lost Orchard explorează istoria soiurilor vechi, dar aduce un plus de valoare prin integrarea acestora în arta culinară aplicată. Dacă Kew on a Plate with Raymond Blanc se concentra pe grădina de legume ca laborator botanic, acest volum se simte mult mai personal, fiind centrat pe efortul de un deceniu al autorului de a planta 2.500 de arbori la Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons.
Experiența lecturii este una ritmată de anecdote fascinante despre originea fiecărui fruct — de la gutui și moșmoli la caise și nuci — și completată de ilustrații elegante în alb-negru. Tonul este unul confesiv, dar informativ, transformând fiecare capitol într-o lecție despre ceea ce am pierdut și, mai important, despre ceea ce putem recupera prin conservare conștientă.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1472267591
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: Black and white line drawings
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Headline
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Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
De ce să citești această carte
Această carte este esențială pentru cei care doresc să înțeleagă legătura indisolubilă dintre grădinărit și gastronomia de înaltă clasă. Cititorul câștigă nu doar rețete rafinate, ci și o educație prețioasă despre soiurile de fructe care au definit istoria culinară a Europei. Este o recomandare perfectă pentru pasionații de horticultură și pentru bucătarii care caută să se reconecteze cu sezonalitatea și proveniența ingredientelor.
Despre autor
Raymond Blanc OBE este unul dintre cei mai respectați maeștri bucătari din lume, fiind proprietarul celebrului hotel-restaurant Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons din Oxfordshire, recompensat cu două stele Michelin timp de peste trei decenii. Deși este un autodidact, viziunea sa a influențat generații de bucătari de renume, precum Heston Blumenthal sau Marco Pierre White. Lucrările sale anterioare, precum Simply Raymond sau A Taste of My Life, reflectă filosofia sa despre simplitate și perfecțiune, teme pe care le continuă în The Lost Orchard prin prisma conservării patrimoniului natural.
Descriere
'Blanc set about the most thorough apple-tasting and cooking project I have heard of . . . [The Lost Orchard] condenses the highlights, his love letters to the forgotten apple breeds.' The Times
'I began to dream about an orchard filled with thousands of fruit trees... Today we have an orchard with over 150 ancient varieties of apple. Each one has its heritage in a village or a county that used to thrive on that particular variety. They tell the story not only of what we have lost in Britain but also what we could regain.'
Over the past eleven years, Raymond Blanc has planted an orchard of 2,500 trees in the grounds of his hotel-restaurant in Oxfordshire. Yielding about 30 tonnes of fruit for his kitchen each year, it is full of ancient and forgotten varieties of British apples and pears, along with walnut trees, quince, medlars, apricots, nectarines, peaches, plums, damsons and cherries. A further 600 heritage fruit trees have been added from Raymond's home region of Franche-Comté in France.
The Lost Orchard is a love letter to each of these varieties, complete with beautiful black and white drawings, photographs of Belmond Le Manoir and fascinating information and anecdotes about each fruit, along with recipes and stories.
Recenzii
Raymond Blanc has created a garden haven at his Le Manoir restaurant in Oxfordshire . . . keenly aware of the perilous state of heritage apples, pears, cherries, medlars and quinces, he was determined to add an orchard of forgotten fruits to his ensemble. This magical book describes his quest and the hard work needed.
The legendary chef opens the door to a living library of lost varieties of heritage English fruit in a treasury of recipe and reflection.
Blanc says [apples are] . . . the root of everything. A kind of symbol for Britain to move forward by reconnecting with the past.
Blanc set about the most thorough apple-tasting and cooking project I have heard of . . . [The Lost Orchard] condenses the highlights, his love letters to the forgotten apple breeds.
Beautifully written by our favourite French chef, these recipes are inspired by Raymond Blanc's love of the British orchard. It's a love affair with apples and a bit of history, too.
A beautifully presented recipe guide that doubles as a nostalgic paean to the heritage and provenance of forgotten varieties of British fruit, Blanc's latest volume is much, much more than just a cookbook. Adorned with evocative black and white drawings and a treasury of anecdote, The Lost Orchard is a sumptuous feast for the senses.
More than a cookbook, this is a love letter to the English orchard, [Raymond Blanc] writes tenderly about the hundreds of varieties he has planted in his orchard at Le Manoir, each as precious to him as a much-loved child.
This is a reference book that you can turn to if you want to know anything about apples. It will fly off the shelves for hundreds of years.
The Lost Orchard is a paean to the orchard behind the chef's restaurant in Oxfordshire. Each variety is described in terms of growing and cooking; the very names are evocative. The last chapter provides excellent fruit recipes.
Raymond Blanc has spent the past seven years creating a 2,500-tree orchard at his Oxfordshire restaurant, Le Manoir. Here, he describes the experience with passion, introducing us to many 'forgotten' varieties, and revealing how best to use them in the kitchen.
Must read! French chef Raymond Blanc has written a new book dedicated to the impressive orchard he has planted in the grounds of his hotel-restaurant in Oxfordshire, Belmond Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, which is full of trees producing ancient and forgotten varieties of British and French fruit.
A true delight
Blanc's enthusiasm fills this story with not only of what we have nearly lost in Britain and France, but what we could regain.
Raymond celebrates the gentler pleasure of home. He chronicles the 2,500-tree orchard he has planted in the grounds of his Oxfordshire hotel-restaurant, Le Manoir. He salutes the orchard's ancient and forgotten varieties . . . along with tempting recipes . . . - Waitrose Weekend
In his book The Lost Orchard, Blanc writes with typical romance about the bountiful breadth of fruit varieties that England produced in the days before the supermarket era.
You can't go wrong with the French chef's recipes, perfected over many years at his mother's side and in his Michelin-starred kitchen, but this is also a love letter to the English orchard, whose slow destruction he dates to the arrival of the Golden Delicious in the 1970s. He writes tenderly about the hundreds of varieties he has planted at Le Manoir.