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" As usual, Jane Grigson combines a dry wit with her scholarship and reading. Most of her recipes are refreshingly simple and uncomplicated. " -- Observer" Her recipes work, they are sensible and yet have that flair which makes this an invaluable book for anyone to have in their kitchens. " -- Sunday Telegraph" The best cookbooks stimulate your imagination so that the freshest flavours come across as temptingly as if they were on the plate in front of you. This is that kind of book. " -- Scotsman"As usual, Jane Grigson combines a dry wit with her scholarship and reading. Most of her recipes are refreshingly simple and uncomplicated."--"Observer""Her recipes work, they are sensible and yet have that flair which makes this an invaluable book for anyone to have in their kitchens."--"Sunday Telegraph""The best cookbooks stimulate your imagination so that the freshest flavours come across as temptingly as if they were on the plate in front of you. This is that kind of book."--"Scotsman"
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About the Author
'The most companiable presence in the kitchen' - The Independent Brought up in the north-east of England and educated at Cambridge, Jane Grigson started writing cookery articles in 1968. She has won numerous awards including the Glenfiddich Writer of the Year Award, the Andre Simon Memorial Fund Book Award and Cookery Writer of the Year. Her books include: Fish Cookery, English Food, Fruit Book, The Mushroom Feast and The Enjoyment of food. She died in March 1990.
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Product details
Paperback: 624 pages
Publisher: Penguin UK; UK ed. edition (July 7, 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780140273236
ISBN-13: 978-0140273236
ASIN: 0140273239
Product Dimensions:
5.1 x 1.5 x 7.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.1 out of 5 stars
9 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#733,762 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
`Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book' by the leading English culinary writer, recently deceased, Jane Grigson is ample evidence that the greatest legacy left to the culinary reading world by the great Elizabeth David is the tradition of English food writing, of which Grigson is the most brightly shining star. The tradition includes such diverse other writers as Nigella Lawson, Nigel Slater, Tamasin Day-Lewis, Claudia Roden, Antonio Carluccio, and the irrepressible Jamie Oliver.Short of Elizabeth David's own books, I can think of no better armchair culinary treat than Grigson's larger books such as her `English Food', `Jane Grigson's Fruit Book', `Good Things' and this title on vegetables.It is very easy to see the value of this book, as there are a number of excellent vegetable cookbooks easily available to us today. In spite of the number, most of the best books by the likes of James Peterson, Jack Bishop, Barbara Kafka, Alice Waters and Faith Willinger are mostly simply collections of recipes. Some, such as Bishop and Willinger's works, are even limited to Italian vegetables and recipes, although that subject is certainly large enough for a whole bookshelf of volumes.The best book with which to compare Grigson's work is Elizabeth Schneider's `Vegetables from Amaranth to Zucchini', which covers 131 different species or groups of species, while Ms. Grigson covers 71 named vegetables and vegetable families (both authors cover more than one species in many of their articles). Part of the difference is that Ms. Schneider includes articles on twelve (12) mushroom species, while Ms. Grigson has her own separate book on mushrooms. Another difference is that Ms. Grigson includes much more culinary information, both general advice, techniques, and recipes, than does Ms. Schneider. The biggest difference is in the general tone of the two books. Ms. Schneider's work is clearly based on the German-influenced American style of reference book where the premium is in matter-of-factness and completeness. To that end, Ms. Schneider certainly has the superior book when you may want to track down a fact about a vegetable, but if you simply want to find out as much as you can about cooking in as enjoyable manner as possible, you simply must get Ms. Grigson's book. And... the fact that Jane Grigson's Penguin paperback book costs about one-fifth of Ms. Schneider's hardback tome is no small concern.A small sample of the kind of rare and enchanting detail you will find in Grigson is the following quote on Lettuce and Lettuce Salads. "In his carved chapel at Karnak, the pharaoh Senusret I, of the Middle Kingdom, offers the god Min two flasks of milk. Min raises a smooth arm against the background of three tall lettuces in detailed relief. They stand on a grid that is thought to represent the filed they are growing in. For the Egyptians, Min was the ithyphallic god of increase. Lettuces were sacred to him, perhaps because of the `straight vertical surge' of their growth..." See, vegetables were sexy long before Frank Zappa wrote a song about them! And, Grigson sprinkles her narrative with stories from both the ancient past and her own travels in search of seasonally interesting vegetables.This is not to say Schneider offers no interesting anecdotes. She does. But her hard culinary advice always seems just a bit off the point. Comparing the two authors' articles on asparagus, we find Schneider concentrating on white and purple asparagus, which is odd, because while I see white asparagus only in high end megamarts, and then only now and then, I can get green asparagus at any greengrocer department any time of the year. Schneider also has but four relatively ordinary recipes for asparagus compared to Grigson's nine much more interesting recipes. And, Grigson gives us tips on cooking asparagus that I simply have never read elsewhere or seen in spite of half a decade dedicated to watching the Food Network.Some may be annoyed by Grigson's Anglocentric point of view, but I simply find this a delightful change from both the Italiophiles and the Deborah Madison / Alice Waters farmer's market Mafia. To aid the provincial among us, there is an Anglo-American glossary for translating aubergines to `eggplant' and other local terms. If your culinary library is a bit light, the Appendices contain much useful information on basic techniques. Even if you are an experienced foodie, these notes may offer some useful tips you have not encountered in other books. The digest of sauce and stock recipes alone is worth the visit to this chapter. Like Patience Gray's great book `Honey from a Weed', you constantly find yourself encountering rare, but unusual intelligence. For example, in a short paragraph on pancakes, Ms. Grigson questions the wisdom of letting a batter sit for an hour before starting the cakes on the griddle. Alternately, she recommends adding a bit of beer, ale, or even brandy to lighten things up. Yowzaa!The only drawback of Ms. Grigson's otherwise superb book is the fact that it has no photographs of her subject or on the techniques used to prep them. The proper ways to deal with an artichoke certainly come to mind. In contrast, Schneider's big, glossy book has plenty of pics. But then, if you happen to have three or more cookbooks, odds are good that one of the others has the lowdown in pictures on how to wrangle a mature artichoke. Ms. Grigson has what you need to make the best of it once you have wrestled it to the ground.For serious foodies, this book is a must!
He loves it! It's a rather large book but mounds of info! Arrived in perfect time and in great condition
She likes Jane Grigson books. She's cracked the cover and has been interested in the material. Like Grigson's books "Good Food" and "Charcuterie", which she already owns, this one looks like a winner.
A beautifully written book ready to be used for experienced cooks. The book is 'delicious' and Jane Grigson was a superb researcher and writer.
Fabulous that this wonderful book has been printed again in paperback. Hours of happy contented cooking within.sometimes unusual but always good.
Sorry but I had to return this book. It has no photos. Not one. Nothing to show how the dishes should look in the end. The book is over an inch thick and is written like a novel with lists of ingredients and paragraphs of instructions. I am not a good cook, I need photos to show me what it all means and how it should come together.
I have been using my old Penguin paperback edition since ... the 1980s. It's a go-to book for good and warming vegetable dishes. It never occurred to me that it lacks illustrations. It's organized alphabetically by vegetable, from Artichoke to Yams, with chapters on cardoons, chayote, dandelion leaves, lentils, nettles, purslane, and other exotics I've never thought about (hop shoots, earthnuts, laver). The parsnip chapter follows "How to choose and prepare parsnips" with John Evelyn's 1699 recipe for buttered parsnips and a wonderful curried parsnip soup.
Just made the chicken in Cumcumber Cream Sauce and was sad I wasted that delicious vegetable for something so bland. Grigson was an English food writer, a columnist in fact for the Western nation with the absolute worst food. Soooo that being said I was enriched by the fact that I now know that cucumbers were grown during biblical times which is the sort of exciting fact that will stay longer in my memory than the flavor of blanched cucumbers boiled to death in chicken broth with little to no seasoning.I will cook on though with Ms. Grigson. She's the most amiable food writer I've encountered. I 've longed for this book for a while and brought my copy back from a used book store in Melbourne Austrailia! There's got to be some reason Mark Bitman includes her on his must have cook book list, and I'm sure that the recipes will be hit or miss given the time it was written and country of origin.The plusses are that this book covers vegetables but is by no means vegetarian. Lots of hints on how to cook veggies with meats. The stir fried green beans recipe has become my absolute favorite, and I'll just have to keep searching through what I'm sure is going to be an edifying book,but a hit or miss cooking experience.
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