An apple harvest : recipes and orchard lore / Frank Browning and Sharon Silva.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Browning, Frank, 1946-

Contributor:

Silva, Sharon.

Laurie Burrows Grad Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking (Apples).

Penn Provenance:

Grad, Laurie Burrows (donor)

Physical Description:

vii, 151 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 x 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, Calif. : Ten Speed Press, [1999]

Summary:

Apples are not only the world's most highly mythologized fruit, but also among the most versatile, ancient cooking ingredients. In An Apple Harvest, writer and NPR contributor Frank Browning draws upon the apple's storied culinary history and the folk cooking of his Appalachian heritage to present, with food writer Sharon Silva, an engaging, lavishly illustrated companion to apple and cider cookery. This beautiful volume pays tribute to the apple's esteemed place in the cuisines of the world, and includes over 60 recipes that draw upon dishes from Provence to Persia, Scandinavia to Sicily.

Contents:

A Brief History of the Fruit of Temptation

Choosing Your Apples: Type, Purpose, Location, and a Word on Antiques

Keeping Your Apples

To Peel or Not to Peel

Cider Cookery

Cider Vinegar

Calvados and Applejack

A Culinary Pomarium 23

First Courses 40

Main Dishes 58

Side Dishes 98

Desserts and Beverages 110.

Notes:

"A Kirsty Melville book"--T.p. verso.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Presented to the Penn Libraries by Laurie Burrows Grad.

ISBN:

1580081045

9781580081047

OCLC:

41278441

Online:

Laurie Burrows Grad Collection Home Page