Food Lovers' Guide to Massachusetts: Best Local Specialties, Markets, Recipes, Restaurants, Events, and More
Author: Patricia Harris
Looking for a Berkshire-made blue cheese to complement your fine wine? In search of the absolute best seafood shack on the Massachusetts coast? Want to sample the wares at a maple sugaring farm or prepare an authentic nineteenth-century New England dinner? Let seasoned food writers Patricia Harris and David Lyon bring you the inside scoop on the best places to find, enjoy, and celebrate the foods of the Bay State. From North Shore steamers and linguica to chocolate stout cake and Westport Macomber, a bounty of culinary delights awaits you in this engagingly written guide.
Each Food Lovers' guide features: Local producers of regional delicacies; specialty food shops; farmers' markets and farm stands; one-of-a-kind restaurants and landmark eateries; food festivals and culinary events; the best regional recipes; a sampling of the regions' best wineries and brewpubs, and much more.
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Soup Suppers: More than 100 Main-Course Soups and 40 Accompaniments
Author: Arthur Schwartz
Healthful, practical, and economical, soup as a main course is a natural for the way people eat today. In Soup Suppers, Arthur Schwartz provides everything you need to know to turn a simple soup into a sensational meal.
His chapters are conveniently organized by main ingredient and feature recipes that offer something for everyone. Here are new recipes for soups from around the world as well as favorites from just around the block, all made equally accessible to American cooks and their kitchens. Here you will find everything from simple, homey dishes like Chicken Gumbo, Fresh Tomato Soup, and Chili con Carne to such adventuresome departures from the everyday as Porcini, Potato, and Barley Soup; Thai Shrimp Soup; and Moroccan Harira with Chick-peas.
In addition to the soups themselves, Arthur Schwartz provides recipes for accompaniments--breads, salads, appetizers, and desserts--that make his already hearty soups complete meals. Bruschetta, Popovers, and Walnut Onion Muffins are easy to prepare and delicious on the side of a soup, as are healthy recipes for Celery and Parmesan Salad, Marinated Mushrooms, and String Beans with Garlic and Sesame Oil. There is no better way to end a meal than with Arthur Schwartz's recipes for desserts, including Oatmeal Lace Cookies, Blueberry Apple Crumble, and Swedish Almond Cake.
Presented in the relaxed and friendly manner for which Arthur Schwartz is known, Soup Suppers offers a versatile and satisfying, wholesome and hearty approach to home-cooked meals.
Jean Anderson
Like Arthur Schwartz, I come 'from a serious soup-making, soup-eating family'. But I must say, the Scotch Broth and Corn Chowder I was weaned on pale beside this colorful collection, which includes some superb-sounding Russian and Middle Eastern soups I've never heard of. Arthur makes them all sound so easy, so delicious, I can't wait to haul out the soup kettle. Soup Suppers is one cookbook that is going to end up with plenty of smudges and spatters—the ultimate compliment!
Alice Waters
Soup Suppers is an enormously enticing book, an inspiration for cooking easy, inexpensive, and nourishing meals with seasonal ingredients. This is the way I want to cook for my family and friends.
Julie Sahni
Why do I love Soup Suppers like I do? First and foremost, it is by Arthur Schwartz, whose no-nonsense palate knows what good tastes like. Second ... there is no second!
Library Journal
Schwartz, author of What To Cook When You Think There's Nothing in the House To Eat ( LJ 12/91), is a New York City food critic and radio host. Here he offers 100 hearty, satisfying soups and stews, along with 50 or so recipes for accompaniments from breads and appetizers to desserts. James Peterson's impressive Splendid Soups ( LJ 9/15/93) with some 400 recipes is the undisputed first choice, but Schwartz's more homey compendium is recommended for most collections. BOMC selection.
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