Word: meat
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...famous Paris cooking school La Varenne. This is a how-to book more than a book of recipes, although Willan has scattered many simple recipes throughout the technical sections of her well-illustrated manual. In one of the most instructive sections, double-page illustrations show the kinds of meat cuts typically available both in the U.S. and France. I have often wondered just how to butterfly a leg of lamb when, at the last moment, I have had to settle for the whole leg. Eight quick steps, each with its own picture, show how to debone the thing, and then...
...recipes. If my lavender ever blooms, I'm going to try the ice cream with fresh lavender flowers and muscat. The companion book, Recipes from an Italian Farmhouse by Valentina Harris (Simon & Schuster; $24.95), is equally beautiful but can be a bit too authentic. I thought the sausage-meat-risotto recipe sounded good right down to the one- half cup of fresh pig's blood, at room temperature (optional, of course...
There is not a wide audience for what is usually called Pennsylvania Dutch food, which is actually a kind of Americanized German cuisine I remember from childhood as featuring at least three starches with every overcooked piece of meat. But in Cooking from Quilt Country by Marcia Adams (Potter; $24.95), this excessively hearty cuisine gets lightened up. The recipes from Amish and Mennonite families in Indiana are less daunting to the cholesterol conscious. But how can there be an Amish cookbook without shoofly pie, that gooey + concoction of molasses and brown sugar? And I still have never found a good...
Iraq's softest spot is food. The country relies on imports for 70% of its wheat and nearly all its chicken feed, meat, cheese, sugar and cooking oil. Most of these foodstuffs come from North America, Europe and Australia. The sanctions exempt food exports if they are justified on humanitarian grounds, but many of Saddam's suppliers have decided to starve him out, at least as long as famine is not imminent. Estimates of how long Iraq's food stores will last range from two to six months...
...allegiance to themselves. They don't, for example, want the phrase "man and wife" in the ceremony because it's sexist. They don't want the word "God" either, because neither of them believes and neither of them is hypocritical. The meal at the wedding reception cannot have meat--they are both vegetarians...