Here is the great basic American cookbook—with more than 1,990 recipes, plain and fancy—that belongs in every household.
Originally published in 1896 as The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer, it became the coobook that taught generations of Americans how to cook. Completely updating it for the first time since 1979, Marion Cunningham made Fannie Farmer once again a household word for a new generation of cooks.
What makes this basic cookbook so distinctive is that Marion Cunningham, who is the personification of the nineteenth-century teacher, is always at your side with her forthright tips and comments, encouraging the beginning cook and inspiring the more adventurous. She knows what today's cooks are looking for, and she has a way of instilling confidence and joy in the act of cooking.
In giving the book new life, Mrs. Cunningham has been careful always to preserve the best of the old. She has retained all the particularly good, tried-and-true recipes from preceding editions, retesting and rewriting when necessary. She has rediscovered lost treasures, including delicious recipes that were eliminated when practically no one baked bread at home. This is now the place to find the finest possible recipes for Pumpkin Soup, Boston Baked Beans, Carpetbag Steak, Roast Stuffed Turkey, Anadama Bread, Indian Pudding, Apple Pie, and all of the other traditional favorites.
The new recipes reflect ethnic influences—Mediterranean, Moroccan, Asian—that have been adding their flavors to American cooking in recent years. Tucked in among all your favorites like Old-Fashioned Beef Stew, New England Clam Chowder, Ham Timbales, and Chicken Jambalaya, you'll find her cool Cucumber Sushi, Enchiladas with Chicken and Green Sauce, or a layered dish of Polenta and Fish to add variety to your repertoire. Always a champion of old-fashioned breakfasts and delectable desserts, Mrs. Cunningham has many splendid new offerings to tempt you.
Throughout, cooking terms and procedures are explained, essential ingredients are spelled out, basic equipment is assessed. Mrs. Cunningham even tells you how to make a good cup of coffee and how to brew tea properly.
For the diet-conscious, there is an expanded nutritional chart that includes a breakdown of cholesterol and fat in common ingredients as well as in Fannie Farmer basic recipes. Where the taste of a dish would not be altered, Mrs. Cunningham has reduced the amount of cream and butter in some of the recipes from the preceding edition. She carefully evaluates the issues of food safety today and alerts us to potential hazards.
But the emphasis here is always on good flavor, fresh ingredients, and lots of variety in one's daily fare, which Marion Cunningham believes is the secret to a healthy diet. Dedicated to the home cooks of America, young and old, this thirteenth edition of the book that won the hearts of Americans more than a century ago invites us all—as did the original Fannie Farmer—to cherish the delights of the family table.
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评分这本书的排版设计简直是一场视觉的享受,完全颠覆了我对传统厚重食谱的刻板印象。我通常对那种密密麻麻、字体小得像蚂蚁的食谱敬而远之,但拿到这本,我忍不住就想翻阅。它的留白处理得非常巧妙,每道菜的配图都像是精心挑选的艺术品,光线和色彩的运用达到了极致,让人仅仅是看着图片就已经垂涎欲滴。更赞的是,它在复杂食谱旁会特意加入一些“小贴士”的边栏,那些边栏的字体略微不同,颜色也更加柔和,既不打扰主体的阅读流程,又能在关键时刻提供及时的帮助。比如,在介绍如何制作完美的蛋黄酱时,它用一个淡黄色的小方框标出了“如果油水混合物出现油水分离迹象,请立刻停止加橄榄油,加入一小勺热水搅拌”的急救方法。这种细致入微的布局考量,体现了编者对读者实际操作中痛点的深刻理解。读起来非常流畅,即便是站在灶台前手忙脚乱的时候,也能迅速找到自己需要的信息,而不是被一堆不相关的文字淹没。这种既有美感又实用的设计,绝对是加分项。
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