Passion for Potatoes [Paperback]

Lydie Marshall (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 3, 1992

200 recipes--from appetizers to desserts--for this nutritious and increasingly popular vegetable.

Potatoes are the world's best food. You can boil them, bake them, fry them, sauté them, grill, braise, roast, and microwave them. Potatoes are irresistible, and Lydie Marshall's recipes for them are sublime. The book is an international compendium of tempting and varied dishes by one of America's most talented cooks.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

The ebulliently titled second book of New York cooking school director Marshall ( Cooking with Lydie Marshall ) is aptly named. The humble and nutritious potato does deserve a volume all its own, and this one demonstrates the author's skill and sophisticated taste. Entire chapters are dedicated to classic potato dishes--there's one on potato salads (which includes an unusual barbecued version as well as the more familiar American variety). The chapter on mashed potatoes features a sweet potato puree,stet comma, please and garlic mashed potatoes with olive oil. In addition to these, cooks should especially heed chapters on gratins and scalloped potatoes, on potato soups,stet comma potato dumplings and gnocchi, and Marshall's fascinating--and, arguably, unique--collection of recipes for moist, rich potato breads and doughs. The potato dessert recipes, while tasty enough, stretch the subject. This aside, the book's a useful tool even for the well-versed. Illustrated.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Review

"This charming book, filled with interesting information about the potato, is Lydie at her best." -- -- Linda and Frank Griffith

"What a wonderful and incredibly informative volume! The subtleties of the potato are expressed with great authority and taste." -- -- Alice Waters

"Lydie's passion is our good fortune, an inspired treasure of succulent, homey food and culinary common sense; it is what everyday food should be and almost never is." -- Richard Olney

"My faith in Lydie Marshall as a cook is unqualified. I would follow her, and anything she cooked, to the ends of the earth. A Passion for Potatoes is a must for everyone, for everyone who loves potatoes." -- Patricia Wells

"The recipes in Lydie Marshall's wide-ranging potato book mirror her great good taste and concern for ease of preparation. Long live Lydie's ways with potatoes!" -- Cecily Brownstone

"This charming book, filled with interesting information about the potato, is Lydie at her best." -- Linda and Frank Griffith

"What a wonderful and incredibly informative volume! The subtleties of the potato are expressed with great authority and taste." -- Alice Waters

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Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: William Morrow Cookbooks (March 3, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060969105
• ISBN-13: 978-0060969103
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,402,679 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars The potato reinvented, May 18, 2011

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This review is from: Passion for Potatoes (Paperback)

This is a great book that will change the way you think about potatoes forever. It proves that they are a relatively low energy food, much less fattening than pasta, and that different varieties have different tastes and uses. Recommended.

11 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful resource, July 13, 2000

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This review is from: Passion for Potatoes (Paperback)

Lydie's cookbooks are ALWAYS perfectly done -- every recipe is a gem. I've been to her cooking school in NYC, and can attest to this woman's incredible knowledge, skill, and ability to teach. Fabulous. Check out her other cookbooks, too...

5 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars interesting ideas, not so easy to read, June 22, 2006

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I just received this book and while I have not had time to experiment the the recipes, I have to say that I find it a bit difficult to read through. Don't get me wrong, the author is very engaging and I am looking forward to trying out the recipes, it is just that the font for the recipe titles is not quite browsing-friendly.