The Tasha Tudor Cookbook: Recipes and Reminiscences from Corgi Cottage [Hardcover]

Tasha Tudor (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 17, 1993

Tasha Tudor, beloved children's book author and illustrator, has at last written her long-awaited cookbook. In words and the enchanting watercolors for which she is renowned, she shares the recipes she has gathered over a lifetime - some that have been passed down for generations and some that she created specially for her children and grandchildren. These traditional recipes recall an old-fashioned New England lifestyle and summon up Tasha Tudor's own warm family memories, which she shares here with her readers. Tasha Tudor's recipe collection includes summery picnic salads, hearty winter soups, and breakfast treats like Great-Grandmother Tudor's Cornbread, Blueberry Coffee Cake, and Butterscotch Rolls. Her main dishes - Roast Chicken with tarragon and sage, vegetable-laden Beef Stew, and Salmon served with homegrown peas - are the prelude to her irresistibly rich desserts, including a luscious dark chocolate torte and English Toffee Bars. At Tasha Tudor's Corgi Cottage, Christmas celebrations are the high point of the year, filled with the kind of food and wholesome fun that harks back to an earlier time. Her recipes bring family and friends together to make her well-known gingerbread Christmas tree ornaments (which have been displayed on the White House tree), and such seasonal favorites as thumb cookies and pulled taffy for wrapping as gifts or for putting in paper cornucopias to hang on the tree. All of these authentic, tried-and-true recipes are presented for the first time with some fifty original watercolor and pen-and-ink drawings in this beguiling keepsake kitchen companion.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 144 pages
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; 1st edition (November 17, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0316855316
• ISBN-13: 978-0316855310
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 0.7 x 9.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #70,512 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #86 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Regional & International > European > French

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76 of 79 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars The cookbook I turn to most often. May 27, 1999

By A Customer

Format:Hardcover

This is, undoubtedly, my favorite cookbook! I've used most of the receipts in it many times with great results. I also enjoy just READING it, especially on a cold winter day when it' snowing outside. Tasha's stories and drawings make this a special treat for me to read and use!

37 of 37 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Special Book January 26, 1999

By A Customer

Format:Hardcover

I really do like the Tasha Tudor Cookbook. The recipes are very good and the illustrations make it special. This is a collectible. I am a cookbook collector and this is one I cherish. I have many of Tasha Tudor books. They are all wonderful.

28 of 28 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Cooking, Memories and amazing Artwork. January 26, 2001

By Michelle Johnson

Format:Hardcover

Corgi Cottage, the memories, the recipes. All Tasha Tudor fans will want to add this book to their collection. Cookbook collectors must embellish their shelf with this book. Old recipes, simple delights and wholesome goodness jump from the pages of Tasha's beautifully designed cookbook. You'll feel the warmth of her kitchen and enjoy her easy cooking lessons. Once you try her mashed potato recipe, you'll never do it any other way. Tasha's Lemon Jelly soothes the most unsettled tummy. Curl up with this book, learn a bit of history and art appreciation, then off to the kitchen for hours of culinary delight!