This is a book about sharing pleasure. It's about how the experience of eating is a way of looking at the world.
As a traveller Stephanie Alexander is always seeking new tastes and new flavours; by translating them into workable, delicious feasts she is able to share the memory with all its happy associations.
Feasts and stories draws on a very broad palate, from settings in countries as varied as France, Italy, England, Greece, Indonesia, Hong Kong and Australia.
It celebrates eating and food, how people live, what makes their life exciting, and how food is linked to events of significance. It demonstrates Stephanie's interest in both understanding traditional ethnic boundaries and in absorbing culinary details of various cultures into what is her own very personal style.
Feasts and stories is also a simply wonderful, practical cookbook, with an astonishing range of dishes, ideas and ingredients, all of which beg to be tried. Stephanie's enthusiasm and passion for everything associated with food is an inspiration for both the reader and the cook.
Stephanie Alexander worked as a librarian and language teacher before opening the first Stephanie's restaurant in 1976. Four years later she moved to the gracious National Trust house in Hawthorn, Melbourne. In 1985 Stephanie published her first book Stephanie's Menus for food lovers and won the award for overall excellence in an Australian gastronomic competition judged by the Michelin guide inspector, M. Andre Trichot. In 1987 the Age Good Food Guide bestowed a special distinction on Stephanie's as the finest restaurant in Melbourne for food, wine, setting, service and, above all, the care and originality of its owner-chef, Stephanie Alexander. Feasts and stories has met with great acclaim in London, and is now published in paperback for the first time. |
Oversized, 305 page, soft cover book. Allan & Unwin, Sydney, 1989. In fine, unmarked condition.
Weight when packed: 1kg |
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