Cooking Around the World: Romanian, Bulgarian & Balkan [Paperback]

Trish Davies (Author)

Book Description

Series: Cooking Around the World | Publication Date: November 19, 2005

This comprehensive guide to the food and cooking of a largely unexplored cuisine presents a superb group of recipes full of surprises.

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About the Author

Lesley Chamberlain is a writer, linguist and traveller. Her acquaintance with Eastern Europe began with a year in Russia as a Reuter correspondent followed by independent travels. Since 1991, she has been a judge for the International Langhe Ceretto prize awarded to books on food and culture and is the author of a number of books, including Food and Cooking In Eastern Europe (Penguin Books); The Food and Cooking of Russia (Penguin Books); and Cooking Around The World: German, Austrian, Czech & Hungarian in this series. Trish Davies is a home economist and food specialist with over 20 years' experience. She has worked as an editor on a number of food magazines, as a writer, recipe creator, cookery demonstrator and lecturer. Trish has also done a great deal of work with television and preparing food for advertising and promotional photography. Her published works include: From Borshch To Blinis: Great Traditional Cooking From Russia And Poland (Southwater); The Practical Encyclopedia Of East European Cooking (Lorenz Books); Cooking Around The World: German, Austrian, Czech & Hungarian (Lorenz Books).

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Anness (November 19, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0754815862
• ISBN-13: 978-0754815860
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 6.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,303,682 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mouth-watering, intelligent and well researched..., November 7, 2008

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IS (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cooking Around the World: Romanian, Bulgarian & Balkan (Paperback)

Odd to serve up a review on an out-of-print item, but I have relied on this book for so long that I owe it to the author... wherever they may be.

This is a tour of South-Eastern and Eastern European cuisine, and each chapter covers a different country. A few pages introduce the reader to the place -- history, influences, geography, people, as well as to how that cuisine relates to its neighbors. The recipes are concise, easy to create, and surprisingly well captured. The chapters are inherently short (maybe 10-15 recipes each), but check out the neighboring countries, and most times the image is complete. I am Romanian, and I scoop up recipes from the Bulgarian, Hungarian and even Polish chapters when I'm looking for something specific.

What's even better, is getting a sense of place for each country, and correlating food with history... When I was a newcomer to the US, a university colleague's wife copied of this book for me, to remind me of home. I have accumulated by now a number of cookbooks, in both English *and* Romanian, yet 20 years later, I still prefer to use this copy, and I've been looking for ways to buy it and recommend it to others. Now I have it here!

Highly recommended for anyone interested in exploring their Southern or Eastern European roots!

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent regional cookbook, January 16, 2011

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Ellie "mittbooks" (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cooking Around the World: Romanian, Bulgarian & Balkan (Paperback)

I love the "Cooking Around the World Series" and this edition does not disappoint. If you're interested in regional specialties described in an accessable manner, this book is for you. I'm an experience cook, but not in Balkan cuisine, so I found it helpful when the book gives background and explains foods and cooking processes unique to the region. It also didn't go overboard. I've seen some cookbooks for this region that include many recipes with parts I don't want to deal with - I'm never interested in a lamb's whole head. Thankfully, this book focusing on authentic recipes made from ingredients you could find in your local supermarket (and still want to purchase.)