Product Description

200 recipes--from appetizers to desserts--for this nutritious and increasingly popular vegetable.

Potatoes are the world's best food. You can boil them, bake them, fry them, sauté them, grill, braise,roast, and microwave them. Potatoes are irresistible, and Lydie Marshall's recipes for them are sublime. The book is an international compendium of tempting and varied dishes by one of America's most talented cooks.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #705307 in Books
• Published on: 1992-02-12
• Released on: 1992-02-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

From Publishers Weekly
The ebulliently titled second book of New York cooking school director Marshall ( Cooking with Lydie Marshall ) is aptly named. The humble and nutritious potato does deserve a volume all its own, and this one demonstrates the author's skill and sophisticated taste. Entire chapters are dedicated to classic potato dishes--there's one on potato salads (which includes an unusual barbecued version as well as the more familiar American variety). The chapter on mashed potatoes features a sweet potato puree,stet comma, please and garlic mashed potatoes with olive oil. In addition to these, cooks should especially heed chapters on gratins and scalloped potatoes, on potato soups,stet comma potato dumplings and gnocchi, and Marshall's fascinating--and, arguably, unique--collection of recipes for moist, rich potato breads and doughs. The potato dessert recipes, while tasty enough, stretch the subject. This aside, the book's a useful tool even for the well-versed. Illustrated.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review
"This charming book, filled with interesting information about the potato, is Lydie at her best." -- -- Linda and Frank Griffith

"What a wonderful and incredibly informative volume! The subtleties of the potato are expressed with great authority and taste." -- -- Alice Waters

"Lydie's passion is our good fortune, an inspired treasure of succulent, homey food and culinary common sense; it is what everyday food should be and almost never is." -- Richard Olney

"My faith in Lydie Marshall as a cook is unqualified. I would follow her, and anything she cooked, to the ends of the earth. A Passion for Potatoes is a must for everyone, for everyone who loves potatoes." -- Patricia Wells

"The recipes in Lydie Marshall's wide-ranging potato book mirror her great good taste and concern for ease of preparation. Long live Lydie's ways with potatoes!" -- Cecily Brownstone

"This charming book, filled with interesting information about the potato, is Lydie at her best." -- Linda and Frank Griffith

"What a wonderful and incredibly informative volume! The subtleties of the potato are expressed with great authority and taste." -- Alice Waters

About the Author
Lydie Marshall is the author of A Passion for Potatoes and A Passion for My Provence. She owns Chez Lydie en Provence cooking school in Nyons, France. She divides her time between France and New York.

Customer Reviews

A wonderful resource
Lydie's cookbooks are ALWAYS perfectly done -- every recipe is a gem. I've been to her cooking school in NYC, and can attest to this woman's incredible knowledge, skill, and ability to teach. Fabulous. Check out her other cookbooks, too...

interesting ideas, not so easy to read
I just received this book and while I have not had time to experiment the the recipes, I have to say that I find it a bit difficult to read through. Don't get me wrong, the author is very engaging and I am looking forward to trying out the recipes, it is just that the font for the recipe titles is not quite browsing-friendly.