Urban Picnic (eBook)

Being an Idiosyncratic and Lyrically Recollected Account of Menus, Recipes, History, Trivia, and Admonitions on the Subject of Alfresco Dining in Cities Both Large and Small

John Burns, Elisabeth Caton (Autoren)

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2005
352 Seiten
Arsenal Pulp Press (Verlag)
978-1-55152-288-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Living in the city doesn't mean you can't pull off a great picnic.

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';The latest fashion among young city-dwellers, providing a new advertising niche for manufacturers of luxury products, is the good old family picnic.'Le Monde';An upper-class English ritual traditionally confined to rural French life, the picnic has been rebranded.'The Economist';The great charm of this social device is undoubtedly the freedom it affords. . . . To eat cold chicken and drink iced claret under trees, amid the grass and the flowers.'Appleton's Journal of Literature, Science, and Art, 1869Urban picnics are a hot foodie trend right now; from The Economist to Le Monde, food journalists and lovers the world around are jumping on the blanket. Like so many of us, they want to put their hectic city lives on hold and enjoy themselveswithout having to head off into the hinterland. The Urban Picnic is designed for modern gourmands and kitchen newcomers alike to inspire them to introduce a little pleasure and picnickery into their lives. With an irreverent and highly opinionated history of the picnic, strange accounts from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, original illustrations and over 200 recipesmany contributed from renowned chefs such as Nigella Lawson, Mark Bittman, Regan Daley and Bob Blumerit's the essential how-to (and how-not-to) for anyone who was ever looking for a tasty little morsel to eat under that tree that grows in Brooklyn. Two-color throughout.Recipes include:Barbecued Lemon Chicken (Anne Lindsay) Banana-Strawberry Layer Cake (Regan Daley) Mint Julep Peaches (Nigella Lawson) Chicken Liver Crostini (Umberto Menghi) Ahi Tuna Salad with Green Papaya (Rob Feenie)

Autor

John Burns is a Vancouver-based journalist and editor at the Georgia Straight, Canada?s largest alternative weekly, who writes frequently on food, trends, and publishing. He is a frequent contributor to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Originally from New Zealand, Elisabeth Caton is a long-time educator and food writer who lives in Vancouver.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.4.2005
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Grundkochbücher
• ISBN-10: 1-55152-288-8 / 1551522888
• ISBN-13: 978-1-55152-288-3 / 9781551522883