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Nicole Routhier's Fruit Cookbook: 400 Sweet & Savory Fruit-Filled Recipes Soups to Desserts
At last it's here, a definitive cookbook starring fruit from one of America's most popular food writers, Nicole Routhier. Author of The Foods of Vietnam --awarded the Cookbook of the Year in 1990 from both the James Beard Awards and the IACP--Ms. Routhier has had a love affair with fruit since growing up in the tropics, and now she combines her passion for fruit with her culinary gifts to create 400 recipes of fruit magic. Borrowing from cuisines around the world, reinventing traditions, and adding a twist to classic pairings, Nicole Routhier presents dishes with fruits for every course. In each case her use of fruit--sweet or tart--adds an unexpected depth of flavor; a cleaner, fresher taste; and a festive, sensuous appeal. There are fruit and fruit-influenced Steamed Shrimp with Roasted Pepper and Apple Dip and Fruity Bruschetta. Mexican Lime Soup, Cream of Fennel and Pear Soup. Sicilian Orange Salad, Tropical Lobster Salad. Pepper Steak with Plum Ketchup, Braised Cranberry Pork Chops, Lemon Chicken. And of course, Sour Cherry Pie, Blackberry-Lime Parfaits, Best Raspberry Brownies. In addition, there are beverages, preserves, and chutneys; plus how to buy and store fresh fruits; boxes on exotic fruits; and suggestions for substituting one fruit for another or dried, frozen, or canned fruits for fresh.
480 pages, Hardcover
First published January 7, 1996
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January 2, 2020
It certainly is most lamentable that I seem to have permanently misplaced my treasured copy of Nicole Routhier’s Fruit Cookbook (and have actually and with not much success been looking for reasonably priced replacement copy for many years), as this tome, as Nicole Routhier’s Fruit Cookbook is indeed and in my humble opinion absolutely wonderful if not even spectacular both with regard to the many fruit based recipes presented and equally with regard to how convincingly Nicole Routhier also shows her readers that fruit is or at least that it can be an essential and tasty ingredient in and for many recipes (and should definitely and certainly not just be considered for breakfast, desserts and eating out of hand, as there is, like Nicole Routhier’s Fruit Cookbook totally in my opinion demonstrates just so much more to fruit than that).
And yes, I do nostalgically remember simply adoring and also much appreciating how Nicole Routhier makes use of oh so many diverse fruit and berries in both her sweet and savoury dishes (and that in fact and delightfully, the appetizer, soup and main meal chapters of Nicole Routhier’s Fruit Cookbook actually seem to contain both more recipes than the breakfast, bakery and dessert sections and are also often considerably more interesting and fusion oriented, with me in particular happily recalling how often I used to cook Routhier’s exquisite Vietnamese beef and pineapple soup and that indeed, her Mexican inspired lime based chicken noodle soup is really a better and also a much more tasty and nourishing way for dealing with winter flus and colds than ANY over the counter medication could ever even remotely be).
A wonderfully diverse cookbook both avant-garde and traditional is Nicole Routhier’s Fruit Cookbook (and yes, often using novel fruit-based approaches for traditional recipes but then also sometimes adding traditional touches to fusionary, ultra modern recipes), a fruit lover’s delight of course, but also demonstrating how fruit can easily be added to savoury repasts, to meats, to soups and stews, to risottos, pasta dishes and the like to tempt the palate of even those of us who are not fans, who tend to consider fruit as either too sweet or as simply breakfast and dessert fare).
And yes, I do nostalgically remember simply adoring and also much appreciating how Nicole Routhier makes use of oh so many diverse fruit and berries in both her sweet and savoury dishes (and that in fact and delightfully, the appetizer, soup and main meal chapters of Nicole Routhier’s Fruit Cookbook actually seem to contain both more recipes than the breakfast, bakery and dessert sections and are also often considerably more interesting and fusion oriented, with me in particular happily recalling how often I used to cook Routhier’s exquisite Vietnamese beef and pineapple soup and that indeed, her Mexican inspired lime based chicken noodle soup is really a better and also a much more tasty and nourishing way for dealing with winter flus and colds than ANY over the counter medication could ever even remotely be).
A wonderfully diverse cookbook both avant-garde and traditional is Nicole Routhier’s Fruit Cookbook (and yes, often using novel fruit-based approaches for traditional recipes but then also sometimes adding traditional touches to fusionary, ultra modern recipes), a fruit lover’s delight of course, but also demonstrating how fruit can easily be added to savoury repasts, to meats, to soups and stews, to risottos, pasta dishes and the like to tempt the palate of even those of us who are not fans, who tend to consider fruit as either too sweet or as simply breakfast and dessert fare).
August 30, 2011
This is a cookbook that I'm delighted to own, but rarely use to cook from. For some reason, many of the recipes are just out of my normal cooking interests. My main issue may be that I typically don't stock or consume a sufficiently wide range of fruit, particularly the less common or tropical fruits that she features in many of the recipes.
I do, however, enjoy reading it and seeing the way fruit is used in different dishes and cuisines. It's an educational cookbook for me!
I do, however, enjoy reading it and seeing the way fruit is used in different dishes and cuisines. It's an educational cookbook for me!
February 9, 2022
Even though this is a truly fruit filled recipe cookbook, you find yourself both looking for personal favorites that are not included and/or wanting more. Fruit so enriches our eating (and drinking) experience that it becomes almost invisible. This cookbook has a well curated wide selection of offerings that include fruit. Recommended.
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