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Complete Outdoor Living Cookbook
Celebrate good food for the great outdoors by cooking the nearly 230 recipes gathered here in the Williams -Sonoma Complete Outdoor Living Cookbook, a compilation of recipes originally published in the four volume Williams-Sonoma Outdoors series. The recipes have been developed with the idea of making cooking surrounded by nature as easy and as pleasurable as possible. The ingredients and equipment are simple; the results, delicious. More than just an excellent collection of recipes, this attractive volume provides a guidebook to cooking in and for the outdoors. You'll find suggestions for maximizing your surroundings while caring for the environment; tips on high-altitude cooking; ideas for selecting tableware to complement the setting; and advice for stocking a retreat kitchen and pantry. A glossary defines relevant cooking terms and ingredients. Colorful still-life photographs illustrate the text.Celebrate good food for the great outdoors by cooking the nearly 230 recipes gathered here in the Williams -Sonoma Complete Outdoor Living Cookbook, a compilation of recipes originally published in the four volume Williams-Sonoma Outdoors series. The recipes have been developed with the idea of making cooking surrounded by nature as easy and as pleasurable as possible. The ingredients and equipment are simple; the results, delicious. More than just an excellent collection of recipes, this attractive volume provides a guidebook to cooking in and for the outdoors. You'll find suggestions for maximizing your surroundings while caring for the environment; tips on high-altitude cooking; ideas for selecting tableware to complement the setting; and advice for stocking a retreat kitchen and pantry. A glossary defines relevant cooking terms and ingredients. Colorful still-life photographs illustrate the text.
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304 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2007
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August 29, 2020
If what you’re missing from your outdoor adventures is a throwback to the Edwardian picnic complete with table setting for four on the beach, or entertaining your friends at your second house on Lake Tahoe, this book is for you (servants not included.) The opening photos are gorgeous and ooze privilege as the writer condescends to us proles how we can also eat cake and enjoy our centerpiece of wildflowers at the same time.
I will award bonus points for the first recipes being for cocktails. The hot buttered rum even meets my standard (even though my recipe is better.) Drinking helps make it through this book.
Nothing says outdoor cooking like avocado and crab omelets, which just so happens to be the first food recipe in the book. Rather than insightful suggestions, most of the recipes appear to be excuses for photographs. But the photos are pretty.
Stuffed cherry tomatoes with crab and tarragon -- how many servants do you need to hollow out grape-sized tomatoes to stuff them with dip? These look like the bougie BS answer to deviled eggs that NO ONE ASKED. And if you’re going to be this fussy, how is store-bought hummus acceptable for inclusion here as a key component in at least one dish? Also how do you trust a book that is divided by season, but only uses pumpkin once for a breakfast muffin recipe? I guess pumpkin desserts had to be cut to make room for the outdoor-cooking-friendly recipes like cucumber soup with yogurt cheese with salmon roe and roasted pears with cranberry-wine glaze.
So while spending a lot of time home during the 2020 lost year and cooking at home a lot, we decided it was time to review what cookbooks were on the shelves. It was time to see if there was something we wanted to make out of these books, or if they were unjustly taking up space and energy from better books. If we couldn’t see ourselves using the books, then we determined whether or not we would want to pass these along to someone who might. Considering this book is comprised of photos with some accompanying flavor text, I can’t in good conscience do anything with this “cookbook” but send it to the recycle bin. May you be reborn as an Amazon box!
I will award bonus points for the first recipes being for cocktails. The hot buttered rum even meets my standard (even though my recipe is better.) Drinking helps make it through this book.
Nothing says outdoor cooking like avocado and crab omelets, which just so happens to be the first food recipe in the book. Rather than insightful suggestions, most of the recipes appear to be excuses for photographs. But the photos are pretty.
Stuffed cherry tomatoes with crab and tarragon -- how many servants do you need to hollow out grape-sized tomatoes to stuff them with dip? These look like the bougie BS answer to deviled eggs that NO ONE ASKED. And if you’re going to be this fussy, how is store-bought hummus acceptable for inclusion here as a key component in at least one dish? Also how do you trust a book that is divided by season, but only uses pumpkin once for a breakfast muffin recipe? I guess pumpkin desserts had to be cut to make room for the outdoor-cooking-friendly recipes like cucumber soup with yogurt cheese with salmon roe and roasted pears with cranberry-wine glaze.
So while spending a lot of time home during the 2020 lost year and cooking at home a lot, we decided it was time to review what cookbooks were on the shelves. It was time to see if there was something we wanted to make out of these books, or if they were unjustly taking up space and energy from better books. If we couldn’t see ourselves using the books, then we determined whether or not we would want to pass these along to someone who might. Considering this book is comprised of photos with some accompanying flavor text, I can’t in good conscience do anything with this “cookbook” but send it to the recycle bin. May you be reborn as an Amazon box!
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