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Nazzaro's "manifesto" proves yet again that too much of a good thing is still too much. Pesto is one of the simplest and best pasta embellishments. Since leftover pesto is too good to discard, recipes like pesto bread, an alternative to garlic bread, are welcome. A few dishes make moderately interesting use of pesto (stuffed winter squash, smothered rabbit, tortellini, vegetables and fish, and a couple of salad dressings), but creativity runs awry with pesto hot dogs and Ritzy pesto (Ritz crackers topped with crunchy peanut butter, catsup, pesto and red onion). Many of the recipes are merely standard fare with a pesto enhancement: lentil soup, meat loaf, potato salad, guacamole, gazpacho and salsa. There is even a cheesecake with two teaspoons of pesto. Determined to "pestocize," amateur cook Nazzaro recommends that certain leftovers, "often found, several days later, unwanted and dried out in the refrigerator," will benefit from a pesto garnish. As with too many other suggestions advanced here, this sounds like a waste of good pesto.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Book Description
This is the definitive book about pesto, written by an enthusiastic author who is so obsessed with her subject that she has been known to play her violin to her basil. The Pesto Manifesto is primarily a cookbook, but it also includes lore, background information, growing and harvesting instructions, and advice for turning one’s own pesto passion into a livelihood by starting a pesto-making business.
Nazzaro's "manifesto" proves yet again that too much of a good thing is still too much. Pesto is one of the simplest and best pasta embellishments. Since leftover pesto is too good to discard, recipes like pesto bread, an alternative to garlic bread, are welcome. A few dishes make moderately interesting use of pesto (stuffed winter squash, smothered rabbit, tortellini, vegetables and fish, and a couple of salad dressings), but creativity runs awry with pesto hot dogs and Ritzy pesto (Ritz crackers topped with crunchy peanut butter, catsup, pesto and red onion). Many of the recipes are merely standard fare with a pesto enhancement: lentil soup, meat loaf, potato salad, guacamole, gazpacho and salsa. There is even a cheesecake with two teaspoons of pesto. Determined to "pestocize," amateur cook Nazzaro recommends that certain leftovers, "often found, several days later, unwanted and dried out in the refrigerator," will benefit from a pesto garnish. As with too many other suggestions advanced here, this sounds like a waste of good pesto.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Book Description
This is the definitive book about pesto, written by an enthusiastic author who is so obsessed with her subject that she has been known to play her violin to her basil. The Pesto Manifesto is primarily a cookbook, but it also includes lore, background information, growing and harvesting instructions, and advice for turning one’s own pesto passion into a livelihood by starting a pesto-making business.
This book, originally published in 1987, is more relevant than ever because of the burgeoning interest in Slow Food, all things Italian, organic gardening, and creative cuisine. The recipes in this book bring the spirit and taste of the artisan tradition to your own kitchen table. Pesto, which derives from the Italian word for "pounding," is also a food of choice for sustainable hedonists who prefer a mortar and pestle to a blender or food processor.
Pesto resonates with meat and seafood as well as vegetables, grains, and pasta. Jazz up those dull, ordinary leftovers; pestocize potatoes; make delicious pestos with other greens. Going macrobiotic? Learn how pesto can liven up the journey.
This book offers a wealth of innovative ways to use pesto and other green vegetable pastes in nearly any kind of cooking, to make your ordinary meals more diverse, exciting, and tasty.
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