Book Description
EDITORIAL REVIEWS BOOKLIST Many oenophiles find themselves stumped when it comes to proper pronunciation of names of even familiar wines. How to Pronounce French, German, and Italian Wine Names offers a simple approach to this problem. Bellucci's carefully crafted pronunciations are easy to follow, and only the strictest linguists will quibble with her results. Her phonetic approaches to French's accents and uniquely pronounced consonants give good approximations of the originals, and she has helpful suggestions for dealing with German's umlauts. Although not noted in the book's title, there are tables of Spanish and Portuguese wine words as well. The comprehensive lists of chateaus, personal names, and grape varieties make this a very helpful addition to any reference collection of books on wine. Mark Knoblauch Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
PUBLIHSERS WEEKLY "You need this book because: Ordering wine should be as easy as drinking it, not an intimidating experience."
WINE SPECTATOR.COM "A new book may help...Its goal is not to teach you the languages comprehensively, but simply to make you more confident the next time you order wine at a restaurant or ask a retailer for a certain bottle." -Dana Nigro
AMERICAN REFERENCE BOOKS ANNUAL "Perfect for a waiter or sommelier needing a refresher course on pronunciations of wines, for an executive throwing a dinner party, or for those interested in knowing everything there is to know about wine...This book will be ideal in the libraries of the wine connoisseur, restaurateur, or world traveler." -Shannon Hysell
DRINKS, THE MAGAZINE OF FINE WINE, SPIRITS, AND LIVING "You say Abruzzo, she says [ah-b(l)roots-so]. Anyone who's ever struggled with foreign wine names should find welcome relief in Diana Bellucci's helpful new guide How To Pronounce French, German, and Italian Wine Names. Bellucci uses her own system of phonetics to demonstrate proper pronunciations of wine types and producers in not only the languages mentioned in the title, but also in Spanish, and Portuguese."
ORANGE COUNTY HOME MAGAZINE "It's impossible to be a true wine connoisseur without the ability to pronounce international wine names correctly. With Diana Bellucci's How To Pronounce French, German, and Italian Wine Names, even the most linguistically challenged person will be able to sound like a world traveler."
ARIZONA FOOD & LIFESTYLES MAGAZINE "Here's a book for the well spoken wine enthusiast (and those who wish they were). …purchase How To Pronounce French, German, and Italian Wine Names by Diana Bellucci….an incredible compendium of wine titles that helps anyone pronounce even the most complicated vintage…The gift of enunciation is a most unique and delightful gift. Bravo!" -Candy Lesher
KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS "Feeling incorrect? This book tells how to pronounce more than 15,000 wine names Spatlese [shpayt-lay-za], a style of riesling." -Fred Tasker
STAR-LEDGER "At last! A wine book that anyone who ever has occasion to talk about wine can immediately put to good use. …people concerned about the correct pronunciation of foreign wine terms will find this an indispensable guide. Just about every wine book that comes out these days promises a fresh approach to the subject, but most are monotonously alike… Every once in a while, I come across a wine book that has something new to say, or at least a new way of saying it." -T.J. Foderaro
HOUSTON CHRONICLE "Even if you know wine, do these names flow as effortlessly off your tongue as a vintage port into a decanter? Ycoden-Daute-Isora, Sforzato, Auxerrois and (gulp) Königsschaffhauser Steingrüble? Finally, a guide for the linguistically challenged (which includes me)." -Michael Lonsford
MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE "If imported wines leave you tongue-tied, then you'll look forward to Diana Bellucci's book How To Pronounce French, German and Italian Wine Names. Before long, you'll be saying Chianti and Château d'Auguilhe with the best of them." -Nicole Hvidsten
AKRON BEACON JOURNAL "For the restaurant weary: How to Pronounce French, German and Italian Wine Names by Diana Bellucci will put anyone who dreads ordering a glass of wine on the road to confidence. This book is a veritable Hooked on Phonics for wine." -Tricia Colianne
SWIRL WINE NEWS "Your last high school French class was just a few (ahem) years ago; you never even took Italian or German. And yet, you wish to impeccably pronounce a wine's name (like Trockenbeerenauslese, perhaps) when you're ordering a bottle for your Valentine's dinner. What to do? Get yourself a copy of Diana Bellucci's How To Pronounce French, German, and Italian Wine Names." -Arlene Wszalek
COLORADO WINE NEWS "This book is a lifesaver. Its simple pronunciation rules and multitude of examples mean you can say wine names with confidence even if you don't speak French, German, Italian, Spanish or Portuguese. Now you need not fear ordering or discussing any wine your heart or palate fancies." -Harold J. Baer, Jr.
ITALIAN WINE MERCHANTS NEWSLETTER "It's fairly easy to stumble on the names of Italian wines and regions, especially after a few glasses. Here's a guide that will help you untie your tongue as you explore the world of wines. You won't learn the language, but you will be able to ask for the wine by name."
Customer Reviews:
Makes me confident behind the podium.......2006-11-10
It helped me to pronounce the French wine names like a Frenchmen & Spanish wine like a Spaniard and so on. I am no longer worried about someone in the audience trying to correct my pronunciations. Further it has very comprehensive coverage, I found almost all names that I wanted to pronounce in this book." It real is great value
Presents a complete method of learning pronunciation.......2004-04-04
Diana Belucci's newest reference title isn't just a another dictionary of pronunciation as might be anticipated: rather, How To Pronounce French, German And Italian Wine Names creates and presents a complete method of learning pronunciation to provide keys to the phonetic pronunciation of over 15,000 wine terms, regions, and grape varieties in five different languages. How To Pronounce French, German And Italian Wine Names could've appeared in our 'Literary' or 'Languages' section but deserves mention here for its in-depth interest to wine buffs.
Product Description
This book, by history and photograph, recipe and anecdote, recounts the lately forgotten story of the Germans in Milwaukee and the profound influence these German-speaking immigrants and their descendants had upon the dynamic city of today. Author Trudy Knauss Paradis, with the assistance of E.J. Brumder, beautifully sets forth this extraordinary history; from the early German-speaking arrivals to Milwaukee County in the 1830s, to the vibrant German Athens on Lake Michigan which these immigrants and their children created, to the suppression of German identity following the two World Wars, to the renaissance of German ancestral pride of today. Together, Ms. Knauss Paradis, Director-in-Charge of Cultural Exhibition for German Fest Milwaukee and a child of German-born immigrants; and Mr. Brumder, local historian and scion of the Brumder German-language publishing empire, provide a well-rounded view of not only what it has meant and still means to be German in Milwaukee, but also an insightful portrayal of an often brilliant, culturally vibrant and always industrious community which has enriched Milwaukee at every conceivable level.
Book Description
Where does pepper come from? Why do bears hibernate? And why do snails carry their houses on their backs? Because they like to go camping? Of course not!
This book asks some of the things kids wonder about, and offers some really creative (but WRONG!) guesses. But you can't fool the kids in this book—they know all the answers!
Customer Reviews:
Great for questioning.......2007-05-29
I used this book in my Science class to get my kids to "wondering"- funny book!
Product Description
This is a long-awaited, huge revision of the first, best, and by far the best-selling cookbookâwith more than a million copies sold!âfor automatic bread machines. The Bread Machine Cookbook contains more recipes, for more loaf sizes, tested on more machines! It also contains loads of updated information on newer bread machine models, allergy-sensitive baking, and new answers for frequently asked questions about homemade bread. If you only want one bread machine cookbook, this is it!
Customer Reviews:
Great, you need no other!!.......2007-04-04
This is an AWESOME cookbook, I love the way the recipes are listed in the book, very easy to follow. The ingredients are listed in order to how they should be placed in the machine, there are instruction for 1, 1/2, and 2 lb loaves. The print is large which also makes the recipes easy to follow. I own her whole series of BM cookbooks because I like them so much!! Great variety also--if I have a certain ingredient that I want to use up in my cupboard, 9 times out of 10 I can find a recipe for bread that I can use it in!! Can't say enough good things about this cookbook!!
Great Bread Machine Recipe Book.......2007-01-22
Lots of great, easy and nutritious recipes. My only complaint would be that my machine comes with a rapid rise selection, and this book does not have that as a choice, so I have to look in the owner's manual recipe book to try and find a similar recipe so I know how much extra yeast to add to the recipe. Kind of a pain, but I still want to get some of her other bread machine cookbooks, because this one is very good!
the ONLY one you'll need.......2006-11-22
I've been a fan of bread machines for about a decade now. I've owned The Bread Machine Cookbooks 1-4 plus the Worldwide Sourdough by Donna German. What I found is that there are SO MANY good recipes in #1 that I almost never use #2-4, unless I'm searching for something specific (like a DIFFERENT recipe to use up pumpkin, apple or onion). I've owned other bread cookbooks but have since given them all away. I have great success converting her regular breads to whole wheat (Ex: if it calls for 3 cups flour I'll put in 2.5 cup whole wheat flour plus .5 cup white flour). I like things seasoned strongly, too, so I tend to triple her spices or poppy seeds or citrus peel amounts. Onion / apple can only be doubled, though, and it does change the consistency a bit.
I usually rate the recipes in my cookbooks (so I remember whether or not to make them again) but I stopped bothering with this book, since they're almost always excellent. I use #1 often, and the others almost never because #1 meets my needs almost every time. (Sourdough requires maintaining "starter," which I'm just not up to.) In fact, I'm purchasing another book, new, just to have a shiny unmarked copy (and to let the person I lent my old one to keep it). My recommendation: Buy this one. Later, IF you make so much bread that you actually want more variety, THEN spend your money on different varieties.
Our Favorite Bread Machine Cookbook.......2006-10-22
We just ordered one of the 2 remaining copies of this in Amazon's inventory to replace the one we have been using for several years. It was getting dogeared and pages were falling out. We have all 6 of Donna German's bread machine cookbooks but this is by far the one we use the most!
Absolutely Reliable!.......2006-06-02
I LOVE this book. I've had it for years. Good information on Bread Machine Usage and Ingredients. Every recipe I've tried has worked (unlike some other books and recipes I own.) I love the Christmas Anise Bread and the Peanut Butter and Jelly Bread. So unique! I don't use - or feel I need - any other bread machine book, though I'm thinking of buying another one of hers just for fun. I LOVE IT!
Product Description
The second book in the
Bread Machine Cookbook series features 130 original recipes. It includes special sections on international breads, coffee breads, pizzas and hand-pies that offer new ideas for using the appliance. Current instructions and common questions and answers make this book a must for the bread machine user.
Customer Reviews:
The best in the series!!.......2007-04-04
This book has a whole section on calzones, pizzas, and hand tossed breads which is my favorite! Everything I have made turns out WONDERFULLY!!
This is an AWESOME cookbook, I love the way the recipes are listed in the book, very easy to follow. The ingredients are listed in order to how they should be placed in the machine, there are instructions for 1, 1/2, and 2 lb loaves. The print is large which also makes the recipes easy to follow. I own her whole series of BM cookbooks because I like them so much!! Great variety also--if I have a certain ingredient that I want to use up in my cupboard, 9 times out of 10 I can find a recipe for bread that I can use it in!! Can't say enough good things about this cookbook!!
I didn't want to give it back!.......2000-02-03
A friend lent me this book three months ago and I kept making excuses for not returning it. In the end, she came for lunch, and feeling guilty I thought I would just write out my favourite recipes, and ones I wanted to try ... an hour later and I was still writing! She came for lunch (I served Corny Bread, my favourite so far) and during dessert I was STILL writing. She felt so bad, she told me to keep it longer. She also suggested I tried Amazon, and here I am and have ordered all the books in the series, plus copies for some of my friends. This is the best Bread Machine Cookbook. It is simple, with no uneccesary information. The joy of Bread Machines is that once you have done a couple of recipes from your Instruction book you can cook anything and don't need to be told the same information over and over again. I love every recipe I have tried so far from this book. Everyone with a bread machine should have one!
Easy and delicious!.......2000-01-13
I checked this book out of my public library and cried when it needed to be returned! I absolutely loved it. I tried many of the recipes and found all to be wonderful. The 4 star rating is due to the directions not always being super clear. The book tends to deal on the level of one having had experience with a bread machine. Highy recommended!
A must have book that is easy to follow and indispensible........1998-08-02
This book has a great section on sourdough breads that I have used again and again. The author provides an accurate description of each bread with suggestions of menu accompaniments. I would consider this author an expert on bread machine breads! And so easy to follow.
Product Description
It's easy to make pizza! You can make your own pizza with infinite variety, unsurpassed freshness, and great affordability. One meal of pizza can represent all of the basic food groupsâand it can be as healthy as you wish to make it.
In this book you will find recipes and ideas for thin crust pizzas, deep dish pizzas, stuffed, rolled and layered pizzas; for sauces, toppings and fillings of nearly every description.
Customer Reviews:
If you like pizza this is the book for you! .......2007-08-23
What a great little book. Everything you need to make wonderful pizzas at home. Not only are there many good recipes but also many helpful tips on making the best crusts and sauces.
Fantastic Little Book.......2007-08-10
My family loves pizza but we live out in the boonies, so no delivery and a long drive to get it. This book lets us have great pizza at home, with a minimum of fuss. It has great recipes, not only for lots of crusts (including a no-rise one for busy days), but toppings as well. We have a lot more pizza at home now that I own this book.
A very nice book for making HOMEMADE pizza!!!.......2005-10-31
A great book, I love the selection of different sauces, toppings the thin crusts and deep dish crusts. And it saves time using the bread machine. Nothing beats HOMEMADE PIZZA! I recommend this book if you like making your own pizza over the store stuff.
I actually maded the barbecue chicken and took it to work and had several marriage proposals with co-ed coworkers. No joke. Great book.
really good crust recipes.......2000-03-27
I checked this book out from the library,coming here to buy it today.I made the boboli type crust and it was excellent. I have been trying for some time to get a really good thin crust recipe and this is quite flavorful. The recipes are really tested which means they WORK.Also, the dough was the first one I have made which was so easy to work with.She suggests you pre bake the crust for this particular recipe and it comes out crispier.I was actually able to slide it on my stone with no trouble.Wonderful CRISPY pizza for the first time!
If you think homemade pizza is too much trouble, think again.......1999-10-20
I could not believe how easy it was to make homemade-from-scratch pizza until I started using this book! Using German's suggestion I started making pizza dough in the bread machine and keeping it in the fridge for nights when I don't feel like cooking. It works great! The kids think they're getting a real treat, and I have an inexpensive dinner on the table in less than thirty minutes, with only about 10 minutes of actual hands on effort. (And it tastes better than delivery, too!) If you like pizza or if you're looking for a quick, cheap, kid-pleasing meal once or twice a week I highly recommend this book.
Product Description
The Pasta Machine Cookbook is a major revision of the first cookbook to focus on the pasta itself, rather than the sauces to go with it. It's full of new, improved recipes for both hand-cranked and electric pasta machines. Home-made pasta is quick, easy, and a delicious improvement over store-bought pasta. Pasta has fewer calories and carbsâand more proteinâthan rice or potatoes. All the recipes here are written for hand-cranked and electric machines.
The Pasta Machine Cookbook includes sections on different types of pasta; hints on the machines, cooking, and serving; and a section on sauces, toppings, and fillings.
Customer Reviews:
For Pasta Lovers who want to go a step further.......2006-07-15
Excellent book to prepare your own pasta at home. The book is adapted to both hand-cranked and electric extruder pasta machines.
Buy this book only if you are willing to do something exotic and elaborated with the pasta. If you love pasta but want to save the trouble, keep the pasta simple and play with the sauce recipes. In this case you may want to try a different book, like "Pasta Sauces" by Charles Bellissimo, or "The Essential Pasta Cookbook".
Interesting, but..........2005-03-24
I bought this book when I first got my hand-crank pasta machine. It's kind of fun, but most of the recipes are far too elaborate and highly flavoured. Very few of them sound like something you'd want to do start to finish. I agree with the Italians -- pasta is fairly basic -- have fun with the sauces. (I do wish I had the patience to make those cute little candystriped "packets", though.)
This is inexpensive enough to be an "idea" book, if you want to try something "exotic", which pasta isn't, of course.
Interesting ideas, but..........2004-08-10
I bought this book with real excitement as I had read that it contains recipes for gluten-free pasta. It does, but only about 2, not the 15 it claims - most of these are based on kamut or spelt - neither of which are gluten-free. They may be fine for some people with a mild wheat intolerance, but for any medically diagnosed Celiacs they could cause a serious reaction.
Having said which I've managed to make good basic gluten-free pasta, and look forward to trying some of the recipes for the flavoured variations.
A gift well received.......2003-05-14
Neat little book, bought as a gift to go with the pasta machine. Receipient loved it.
Find more customers.......2003-01-08
FFA in Houston, MO does sound like a future with FFAers and Wheat futures there. A county call TEXAS in MO What a deal. sell them more pasta machine and book pleases. i am 12ing to 62years old.:)(
Book Description
A complete cookbook, from the most elegant to the most basic, with every recipe tested for the American kitchen.
Customer Reviews:
Meine Deutsche Küche.......2007-08-08
Having spent several years in Germany, I was anxious to try and replicate various dishes I had experienced in restaurants and gasthauses there. What I have produced from the recipes in this book have been excellent. They may vary slightly from restaurant faire which is subject to the individuality of the chef, but they all seem genuine and have been quite enjoyable. If I have any complaint at all, it's that not all of the ingredients specified in the recipes are readily available in my area (suburban Philadelphia). It would be helpful if the author provided acceptible substitutes for the more aesthetic ingredients.
What a book..........2006-09-21
I like this book. It has a lot in it. The recipes are a little on the long side. The food is good. Most of the ingredients are easy to find. I like to use it for holidays and special meals a lot. To me German foods says Christmas.
all I expected.......2006-08-21
Great cookbook, mostly using ingredients available here in the midwest. Brings back fond memories of Grandma's kitchen.
Decent Recipes, no pictures........2006-04-08
This book has a TON of recipes in it. Many of these recipes are for German fare that I have never tried. I've made serveral dishes from the book, and I have a few comments based on these experiences.
-Some of the ingredients are difficult to find in my neck of the woods (parsley root, celery root, juniper berries)
-Some of the dishes are a bit bland if you follow the recipe exactly as written. I've found that I need to season some of the dishes a little more strongly to make them taste like anything.
-There are NO PICTURES. I don't have any idea as to how most of these dishes are supposed to look.
-The book has a very good variety of recipes including casseroles, meat dishes, side dishes, and desserts.
-Most of the recipes are quite easy to follow, other than those that call for live fish. Those are tough to come by in Iowa unless you are a fisherman.
In short:
Pros:
-Very complete
-Great variety of recipes
-Recipes are a great starting point for experimentation
Cons:
-No pictures
-Some Ingredients difficult to find
-Some dishes a bit bland if made exactly as printed.
Two German Cookbooks Compared. This one wins!.......2005-02-11
`The German Cookbook' by Mimi Sheraton and `The New German Cookbook' by Jean Anderson and Hedy Wurz are both written by leading American culinary writers. Although their publication dates are separated by thirty years, Ms. Sheraton's earlier book has been brought up to date at almost exactly the same time the newer book was published by Ms. Anderson and her co-author.
The raw numbers put Ms. Anderson at about 390 pages of recipes for a list price of $30 and Ms. Sheraton at about 500 pages of recipes for a list price of $35. Ms. Anderson includes an excellent bibliography of both English and German sources, including a reference to Ms. Sheraton's book. Ms. Sheraton has no bibliography, but includes the excellent feature of an English and a German index. Ms. Anderson includes a very nice glossary of German culinary terms. Ms. Sheraton's list of terms is much shorter, at the end of a short chapter on cooking utensils, which looks almost identical to such a section you would find in a good book on French recipes. In fact, it has a lot of similarities to a much more complete section in Julia Child's landmark `Mastering the Art of French Cooking' which appeared just a few years before Ms. Sheraton's book. While my primary objective is to compare the two German books, I will say at this point that neither comes close to matching the quality of Ms. Child's classic.
Ms. Sheraton, with the longer book, is claiming to be a complete guide to mastering authentic German cooking while Ms. Anderson specifically aims her book at `new' German cooking and avoids any claim to being a survey of all German cuisine (Ms. Sheraton does say, here and there, that there are some typical recipes which are simply so starchy and plain that she thinks they will be of no interest to American cooks, so she leaves them out). A quick look at the first few chapters confirms this assessment. In appetizers, Ms. Sheraton has 18 recipes while Ms. Anderson has but 10. In the next chapter on soups, Ms. Sheraton has 38 recipes while Ms. Anderson has but 25. And, Ms. Sheraton follows her soup chapter with a chapter on soup garnishes.
Which of these two books one may wish to buy has a lot to do with what you want from a `German cookbook'. I happen to be from a German and Pennsylvania German background, so I am looking for a wide variety of recipes for classic German and Austrian dishes. For this, I certainly prefer Ms. Sheraton's more complete coverage. I think the most typical buyer may be interested in a few famous German / Austrian recipes such as Sauerbraten, Sauerkraut, Spatzle, Wiener Schnitzel, Sausage dishes, and Strudel (It is entirely coincidental that all of these dishes start with an `S'). A comparison of all these dishes in both books shows that in every case, not only does Ms. Sheraton have more recipes, her recipes are also more complete.
One place where this is most dramatic is in the recipes for strudel. Ms. Anderson gives but one recipe for strudel, calling it a `Bavarian Strudel', and accurately stating that it is less like the classic Austro-Hungarian dish than like a cobbler. And, rather than giving a homemade recipe for the dough, Ms. Anderson's recipe uses frozen filo dough. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this, as long as you are not buying her book to get a good classic strudel dough recipe. Ms. Sheraton does give us a full recipe for the classic Austrian strudel dough plus recipes for apple, cheese, cherry, plum, poppy seed, rhubarb, and Tyrolean strudel. Everything but cabbage strudel (however, there is a sauerkraut strudel recipe under sauerkraut recipes)! With sausage dishes, the picture is similar. Ms. Anderson has but three sausage dishes while Ms. Sheraton gives us ten.
Ms. Sheraton's recipes do tend to be just a bit more concise than those in Ms. Anderson's book. This is understandable since Ms. Sheraton says at the outset that her book assumes you know your way around the kitchen and know in practical terms, the difference between blanch and poach, for example. And yet, with very important recipes such as with sauerbraten and spatzle, two dishes which require considerably more than the average amount of technique, Ms. Sheraton's recipes are more descriptive than those from Ms. Anderson.
It is entirely appropriate that Ms. Anderson's co-author is a German travel writer, as one of the things in `The New German Cookbook' which is missing from `The German Cookbook' are sidebar stories describing the origins of most recipes.
The bottom line for all of this for Ms. Anderson's book is that it is very similar to a cookbook of recipes from a popular modern German restaurant. And, restaurant cookbooks are bought primarily to supply the reader with new ways of doing classic dishes and cute stories of how the executive chef came by the recipes. The main difference is that unlike recipes from great French and Italian restaurants, the recipes in Anderson's book are primarily simplified versions of the classics rather than fancy new twists.
Really want good recipes from the authentic, traditional German cuisine, get Ms. Sheraton's book. If you are so devoted to German recipes that Sheraton's book simply does not supply enough variety, get both books. Both books give good sketches of wine and beer production in Germany and there is little redundancy. Ms. Sheraton adds the extra touches of recipes for wine and beer based drinks and punches.
Ms. Sheraton's book is a reasonable addition for German cuisine to the great one volume treatments of ethnic cuisines done by Diane Kochilas on Greece, Diana Kennedy or Rick Bayless on Mexico, Penelope Casas on Spain, Barbara Tropp or Virginia Lee on China, Shizuo Tsuji on Japan, and Jean Anderson on Portugal!
Recommended as a standard on its subject.
Book Description
Authentic German Home Style Recipes has over 280 recipes found in German kitchens. Additionally the cookbook has the history of the city of Heidelberg, Germany as well as common German sayings translated into English, many helpful hints and German traditions. All ingredients can be found in U.S. food stores and measurements are in the English system.
Customer Reviews:
One of my most used/best loved cookbooks.......2007-08-17
I bought this book just before ETSing from the Army in 1999. After three years in Bavaria, I knew that one of the things I would miss most was the wonderful food.
Mrs. Youngkrantz does a fantastic job translating traditional German dishes for the American cook. She avoids hard-to-find ingredients. Everything in the book can be prepared with items you can buy in any supermarket, yet it all tastes completely authentic. I pull this one out for special occasion baking and for everyday suppers (I particularly love the Sauerbraten, prepared with a side of homemade Spaetzle). Anytime I get homesick for Germany, I know that I can turn to this book for, at least, a taste of what I miss.
The book is well organized and the recipes are set up in an easy to read format. They are usually contained to one page, so there's no flipping back and forth. The occasional anecdotes about German folklife are charming. I enjoy this cookbook so much that I have given copies as gifts.
4th Generation from (German) Luxembourg.......2006-08-28
Anything that I make from this book, except the creamy carrot and potato dish, was something my Father (4th generation) was perfectly satisfied with. (He has a dislike for milk.) My Father spoke German as a child, in New Riegel, Ohio. If you want a variety of salads, soups, casseroles, desserts; this book is for us. She has no "pie" as we know it. Her pizza could be made from the Onion Cake recipe, sans onions! Only one chicken recipe, though. Bouillon: I would reccomend the dry low sodium variety, needed for most soups. The cookbook is now well used - I've had it for 10 years, but, I find that I do tend to use my KitchenAud cookbooks that came with the appliances for breads and soups, now. Remember to put carrots in your spagetti recipe! (That is her ingredient.) And, brats: In boiling water, then brown!
It's Pretty Good.......2006-04-12
I like the home publishing and the really good home cooking. I DON'T like the plastic comb binding as they deteriorate and break too fast. I bought mine at a winery in north central Arkansas and paid too much there. But I am a sucker for German home cooking.
Excellent Book if you like German food.......2005-08-08
I bought an earlier edition of this book when I was stationed in Berlin back in the 80's. It was written by a German Woman who had moved to the US and could not easily find the ingredients her original German cookbooks called for. The goulash soup in this book is the closest I've ever come to the restaurants in Germany. This is not a professional chefs book. It was made for the home cook who wants to make dishes like they've had in Germany.
A delightful book.......2004-04-27
I bought this book at Milwaukee's Germanfest several years ago, and I consider it a lucky find. The quotes and information about German holidays and customs, are just delightful! And the recipes bring back many memories of time we spent in Germany.
It is worth getting the book for the brötchen recipe alone. We thought we'd never see good brötchen outside of Germany. Now we can make it at home!
I especially appreciated having this book when I was preparing holiday meals for my now-late German-born father-in-law. He was very pleased as well.
The recipes are easy to follow and use ingredients that are easy to find in America. The binding allows you to open the book and lay it down flat - very handy while you're cooking.
Product Description
Our popular waffle book now includes recipes for the current rage, the pizzelle–that crisp, cookie-like cousin of the waffle. Make pizzelles on a waffle-type iron and serve them flat, rolled, stacked or filled. More than 100 recipes for waffle batters and toppings, and pizzelle recipes with and without fillings are found here.
Customer Reviews:
Lots of hard to find reciepes.......2007-08-28
This has lots of hard to find pizzelle receipes, plus lots of fillings. I don't make waffles, but the pizzelle reciepes are worth buying the book.
$8.95 for more choices than Dorie Greenspan's waffle book.......2007-06-15
I already own Dorie Greenspan's waffle book but this has more recipes and I just got a waffle cone maker so this felt like a worthwhile purchase.
Too many choices, all so tasty!.......2006-09-20
Plan what you want to make before hand for you could get stuck for quite some time just trying to decide which of the tasty recipes to follow! This book, as those who have tried the Nitty Gritty books will know, is packed with recipes and variations on the classic, now somewhat boring, breakfast staple. On top of that, there are numerous pizzelle recipes (similar to a waffle cone for those that don't know), which I have not found in abundance anywhere else. There are also lots of recipes for toppings and syrups for the waffles and fillings for the pizzelles so you are not just left with plain old Mrs. Butterworth's! Great addition for anyone who loves breakfast foods and wants to expand from the package mixes!*** I have to add that we are now in love with the eggnog waffles! Sounds odd but they are totally good!
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The New France: A Complete Guide to Contemporary French Wine (Mitchell Beazley Wine Guides)
De Long's Wine Grape Varietal Table
The Oxford Companion to Wine, 3rd Edition
Sales and Service for the Wine Professional
The University Wine Course: A Wine Appreciation Text & Self Tutorial
