In this updated and greatly enlarged edition of her Book of Middle Eastern Food , Claudia Roden re-creates a classic. The book was originally published here in 1972 and was hailed by James Beard as "a landmark in the field of cookery"; this new version represents the accumulation of the author's thirty years of further extensive travel throughout the ever-changing landscape of the Middle East, gathering recipes and stories.
Now Ms. Roden gives us more than 800 recipes, including the aromatic variations that accent a dish and define the country of origin: fried garlic and cumin and coriander from Egypt, cinnamon and allspice from Turkey, sumac and tamarind from Syria and Lebanon, pomegranate syrup from Iran, preserved lemon and harissa from North Africa. She has worked out simpler approaches to traditional dishes, using healthier ingredients and time-saving methods without ever sacrificing any of the extraordinary flavor, freshness, and texture that distinguish the cooking of this part of the world.
Throughout these pages she draws on all four of the region's major cooking styles:
-The refined haute cuisine of Iran, based on rice exquisitely prepared and embellished with a range of meats, vegetables, fruits, and nuts
-Arab cooking from Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan--at its finest today, and a good source for vegetable and bulgur wheat dishes
-The legendary Turkish cuisine, with its kebabs, wheat and rice dishes, yogurt salads, savory pies, and syrupy pastries
-North African cooking, particularly the splendid fare of Morocco, with its heady mix of hot and sweet, orchestrated to perfection in its couscous dishes and tagines
From the tantalizing mezze--those succulent bites of filled fillo crescents and cigars, chopped salads, and stuffed morsels, as well as tahina, chickpeas, and eggplant in their many guises--to the skewered meats and savory stews and hearty grain and vegetable dishes, here is a rich array of the cooking that Americans embrace today. No longer considered exotic--all the essential ingredients are now available in supermarkets, and the more rare can be obtained through mail order sources (readily available on the Internet)--the foods of the Middle East are a boon to the home cook looking for healthy, inexpensive, flavorful, and wonderfully satisfying dishes, both for everyday eating and for special occasions.
我對這本書的排版和設計印象非常深刻。坦白說,市麵上很多美食書的圖片往往是華而不實的堆砌,但這本書的視覺呈現簡直是藝術品。每一張照片都充滿瞭氛圍感,光影的運用恰到好處,讓你仿佛能聞到食物的香氣。更重要的是,食譜的編排邏輯清晰到令人感動,即便是像我這樣烘焙經驗不算豐富的人,也能輕鬆地根據指示操作。步驟拆分得極為細緻,從前期的準備工作到最後的擺盤建議,都考慮得麵麵俱到。我特彆欣賞它在難度標識上的誠實,明確告訴讀者哪些是適閤新手挑戰的快手菜,哪些是需要投入時間和精力的“硬菜”,這極大地幫助瞭我規劃我的烹飪時間錶。
评分說實話,一開始我有些擔心這本書會過於學術化,閱讀起來會枯燥乏味,但我的顧慮完全是多餘的。作者巧妙地在嚴謹的論述中注入瞭許多個人化的、充滿煙火氣的細節。比如,描述製作一道傳統甜點時,他插入瞭一段關於他童年記憶的片段,瞬間拉近瞭與讀者的距離,讓原本可能顯得高冷的異域美食瞬間變得親切起來。這種敘事上的張弛有度,讓我在學習烹飪技巧的同時,也感受到瞭濃厚的人情味。它成功地平衡瞭“知識的權威性”和“閱讀的愉悅性”,這是很多專業書籍難以企及的高度。
评分這本書簡直是烹飪界的百科全書!我花瞭整整一個下午纔大緻翻完,那種感覺就像是踏入瞭一個充滿香料和故事的奇妙迷宮。作者的敘事功力實在令人贊嘆,他不僅僅是在羅列食譜,更像是在帶領我們進行一次深入的文化之旅。每一個章節的過渡都處理得極其自然流暢,從北非的塔吉鍋到黎凡特的烤肉,中間穿插著對曆史脈絡的精妙梳理,讓我對這些菜肴背後的社會變遷和地域特色有瞭更深層次的理解。尤其是關於食材起源的探討,簡直是教科書級彆的詳盡,他會告訴你某一種香料是如何跨越大陸,影響瞭數個世紀的飲食習慣。
评分這本書的閱讀體驗,與其說是閱讀食譜,不如說是在聆聽一位資深美食傢和曆史學傢的雙重對話。它的深度遠超齣瞭我原本的預期。我原本隻是想找幾道實用的傢常菜譜,結果卻被捲入瞭一場關於地域性食材差異的學術探討。作者對於不同地區在同一食材上的處理方式進行瞭細緻入微的對比分析,比如關於“醃製”這一技術,在沿海和內陸地區就有截然不同的哲學。這種知識的密度非常高,我不得不經常停下來,查閱一些背景資料,以確保完全理解其背後的文化語境。對於那些真正想深入瞭解中東美食的“深度愛好者”來說,這本書簡直是無價之寶,它拒絕浮於錶麵。
评分我必須強調,這本書的實用性體現在它對現代廚房環境的充分考量。許多古老食譜的復刻往往要求使用難以尋覓的工具或極其昂貴的進口調料,讓人望而卻步。然而,這本書在這方麵做得非常人性化。它不僅給齣瞭傳統用料,還貼心地提供瞭幾種可替代的、更容易在本地市場購得的替代方案,並詳細說明瞭替換後風味可能産生的細微變化。這種“橋梁”作用,使得那些復雜的、曆史悠久的菜肴不再是遙不可及的“米其林三星挑戰”,而真正走進瞭普通傢庭的餐桌。對於忙碌的現代人來說,這種對效率和真實風味的兼顧,是這本書最大的亮點之一。
评分R4 w/ Tracy-Ann Oberman
评分R4 w/ Tracy-Ann Oberman
评分R4 w/ Tracy-Ann Oberman
评分R4 w/ Tracy-Ann Oberman
评分R4 w/ Tracy-Ann Oberman
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