Town and Country food-writer Villas (Villas at Table, 1988, etc.) fell in love with French cooking as a student there 30 years ago. To judge from the first-person introductions to the recipes presented here, he has spent considerable time since then traveling throughout the country, enjoying the earthy, regional cooking of country homes and neighborhood bistros. SautÇed tripe, roast calf's liver, eel stew, and jugged hare are among the lusty dishes that take his fancy—though about the liver he admits that ``I haven't had much luck with [this] method, but...if you'd like to try....''- -hardly an inducement to do so. Many ingredients, too, he deems just not the same stateside—often insufficiently gamey for him— but he can usually recommend acceptable American products. Villas also dispenses advice to other gastronomic travelers, who can follow his lead to the real thing. Either way, his own impassioned and informed appreciation is persuasive. For an undiluted taste of real French food, look no further.
Pub Date: April 15, 1992
ISBN: 0-553-07664-7
Page Count: 384
Publisher: Bantam
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 15, 1992
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Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...
Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").Pub Date: May 15, 1972
ISBN: 0205632645
Page Count: 105
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
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