Eating Well [Hardcover]

Burt Wolf (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 1992

Served up with easygoing style and garnished with piquant wit, this is a banquet of food lore, history, and travel tips--plus more than 100 four-star recipes from famous restaurants all over America and around the world.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

With this companion volume to his TV series of the same title, Wolf ( What's Cookingsic ) contributes a collection of recipes, amusing anecdotes and irreverent (and sometimes irrelevant) food facts and folklore. However, this is a confusing and confounding volume--one that might have made a very up-to-date cooking primer if only Wolf had included more instructions in it. A recipe for pizza with artichokes, mushrooms, eggplant and leeks, for example, while promising, is accompanied by a vignette on the history of artichokes--yet no directions for preparing fresh ones. Instead, Wolf bounds from coast to coast, from chic restaurant to chic spa to chic celebrity haunt: geographically, from New York City to L.A. and San Francisco to Paris and Rome via British Columbia and Cincinnati. While some fare is certainly appealing (grilled fish, tomato garlic tartlets, Flora Danica blue cheese dressing), the book will frustrate readers who wish for a straightforward definition of what the author means by "eating well."
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

The companion to Wolf's new PBS series, Eating Well is full of food facts and culture, information about ingredients, cooking tidbits, and other esoterica, as well as 100 recipes, mostly from restaurants in cities throughout the United States and abroad. The recipes are a real grab-bag (Potato Salad from Vienna's Hotel Imperial, Sauerbraten from a Cincinnati restaurant, Spring Fruit Tart from Le Cirque), but many have been simplified or streamlined; the sidebars are fun to read--and Wolf has many fans. For most collections.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 324 pages
• Publisher: Doubleday; 1st edition (July 1, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0385424043
• ISBN-13: 978-0385424042
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 8.5 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,571,663 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I love this book!, November 9, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Eating Well (Paperback)

What a wonderful mix of information on exotic and not-so exotic places and foods, inter mingled with wonderful recipes.

Try the crab cakes, or do the chicken with rice.

Did you know that the banana is an herb?

I use this book at least once or twice a week, and am still fascinated after four years.