How I Taught My Brother to Cook

by Barrows, John; Barrows, Patrick

• ISBN13: 9781592992980
• ISBN10: 1592992986
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-01
• Publisher: Inkwater Pr

Summary

Respect your food. Play with it too. Brothers Patrick and John Barrows want you to think more about your food, but not to stress over it. Taking cues from the peasant cuisines of the North of Italy and the South of France, their approach is fresh, simple and honest. Local in-season vegetables, the kind of meat that's handed over the counter by an expert in an apron instead of shrink-wrapped, fresh eggs for hand-made pasta-- these home cooks show that the more you embrace a pallette of basic high quality ingredients, the more you and your family will enjoy what you're putting in your mouths, and realize that convenience foods aren't saving you time or money, and might be sapping your soul. "How I Taught My Brother To Cook" is part family memoir, part cookbook and part raucous sibling rivalry. Most of all it's a story of two men's journey: to embrace their family roots in rural Italy and upstate New York, put good food on their family's tables, and avoid the anxiety over diet fad and fashion that afflicts most Americans. Weaving a dialogue in recipes and techniques, the brothers take a "lowfalutin'" approach, though they rarely agree on whose approach is the more unpretentious. Bring your own opinion to the countertop conversation, and your memories of what your own grandparents and parents and favorite aunt fed you, and renew your joy in food.