false 447357 1 Macaroni and cheese is the ultimate, all-American comfort food. Most Americans, especially children, are familiar with the version that comes out of the blue cardboard box, but acclaimed cookbook author Joan Schwartz has something to say about that in her collection <I>Macaroni & Cheese</I>. Schwartz has compiled over 50 original and inventive recipes from many well-known chefs and restaurants. Most of the recipes start off with a basic béchamel sauce (milk whisked into a roux) and add various domestic and foreign cheeses to the hot mixture, but some find room for more exotic ingredients, like truffles, duck prosciutto, oysters, sausage, and codfish. In addition, there's a glossary of almost 40 milk and goat cheese varieties that appear within the recipes. After sampling some of the more unusual recipes with such fascinating and complementary flavors, it will be time to put your standard assumptions about mac and cheese to rest, and put the blue box at the back of the pantry shelf. <I>--Teresa Simanton</I> 436021 9 10 2001 Macaroni & Cheese: 52 Recipes from Simple to Sublime total:12|5:2|4:5|3:5| 12 45 25 3 4 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 23 15:11:17 -0700 2007 Fri Dec 07 15:06:02 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Sep 02 19:48:19 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 02 19:48:19 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Jul 24 15:34:49 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 24 15:35:32 -0700 2007 0 0 false false Sat Oct 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 15:15:18 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 15:15:18 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri May 29 03:55:29 -0700 2009 Fri May 29 03:55:29 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Apr 05 23:38:22 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 23:38:22 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Mar 24 10:53:08 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 10:53:08 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Feb 27 14:17:40 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 14:17:51 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Sun Dec 21 15:48:42 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 21 15:48:42 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Sat Oct 18 05:35:40 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 18 05:35:40 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Thu Sep 04 10:14:57 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 04 10:15:03 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Wed Jun 11 12:10:46 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 11 12:10:46 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Tue Jun 10 08:11:09 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 10 08:11:09 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Fri May 02 11:28:29 -0700 2008 Fri May 02 11:28:29 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Fri May 02 10:23:18 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 08 16:19:04 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Thu May 01 08:55:09 -0700 2008 Mon May 19 15:41:54 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Mon Apr 14 15:33:44 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 14 15:33:44 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Sun Feb 10 08:31:47 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 10 08:31:47 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Sun Jan 20 07:19:13 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 20 07:19:13 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Sun Jan 06 18:14:22 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 06 18:14:22 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=447357