The Best of Slovak Cooking (New Hippocrene Original Cookbooks) (Hardcover)

by Sylvia Galova-Lorinc (Author), John Lorinc (Author), Sylvia Lorinc (Author) "Zaprazka (pronounced za-prrash-ka) is a soup thickener, and much more..." (more)
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Product Description
This cookbook features nearly 100 easy-to-follow Slovak recipes, including such favourites as caraway seed soup, stuffed peppers, braided bread, and Christmas dumplings. All the recipes are adapted for the North American kitchen.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 138 pages
• Publisher: Hippocrene Books (January 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0781807654
• ISBN-13: 978-0781807654
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,391,476 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Peasant Food, October 15, 2001

By	A Reviewer (DeWitt, Iowa United States) - See all my reviews

I must disagree with the reviewer from Amsterdam. I think this is quite a good cookbook. Though, if you're expecting Nouvelle Cuisine or modern fusion cooking, you will be disappointed. Slovak cooking is, at its heart, peasant food: hearty, filling, and unsophisticated...but good! Pirohy, dumplings, stuffed cabbages, pork dishes, poppy seed and nut rolls, and mushroom soup flavored with sauerkraut juice take me back to my Slovak grandfather's kitchen (my grandfather used dried wild mushrooms in his soup). My one criticism of the book is that, aside from the brief introduction, it contains no information on the cultural context of the recipes. Some personal anecdotes from the authors, and a bit more on the food traditions of Slovakia would be welcome.

1.0 out of 5 stars The Best of Slovak Cooking, June 11, 2007

By	Deborah Richadson - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

If the author thinks this is the best of Slovak cooking he has not eaten great Slovak food. Sorry, I consider this book a waste of money.

3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars not very good, August 4, 2001

By	GAGNAIRE ALEXANDRE (Amsterdam Netherlands) - See all my reviews

This is not the best cooking book I have ever seen, there are not pictures at all, and some meal might be particular to the authors area in slovakia , the introduction starts with saying from slovak people, which is unknown from my girlfriend who is slovak... When I read this book, I felt like it was written very quickly, it does not seems to be written from someone who got the receipies from his grandmother. However, it gives a good overview of what they eat, I recommend the cabage soup, mnam !!!