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Learn to COOK - Cooking with Fire: French Family Recipes & More for Woodfire Ovens (Book & DVD)
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List Price: $39.95
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Manufacturer: Maurice Sabbagh Yotnegparian
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9781604028041
ISBN: 1604028041
Label: Maurice Sabbagh Yotnegparian
Manufacturer: Maurice Sabbagh Yotnegparian
Number Of Pages: 140
Publication Date: 2007-06-07
Publisher: Maurice Sabbagh Yotnegparian
Studio: Maurice Sabbagh Yotnegparian
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Cooking with Fire - French family recipes & more for woodfire ovens, Maurice Sabbagh Yotnegparian, founder of Earthstone Ovens, shares his wealth of experience along with recipes, tips and techniques for cooking with fire. Discover a mouthwatering world of woodfire oven recipes. from breads and pizzas to seafood, poultry, meats, veggies and desserts. this is the comprehensive book that will help you get the very most out of your woodfire oven. For those of you who do not have a wood fire oven, the book includes a recipe conversion chart for conventional ovens. Maurice makes it easy! See step-by-step recipes, instructional and oven preparation techniques that will have you cooking like a woodfire expert in no time. This beautifully illustrated book contains 83 recipes expressly devised for woodfire ovens, from timeless French Classics like French Onion Soup and Boeuf Bourguignon, to updated delights such as Fig & Prosciutto Pizza and Oven Roasted Mussels. Learn how to use your woodfire oven to create whole meals or whole menus for weekend entertaining by planning dishes that coincide with the temperature of the oven. For example, if you want to start your dinner party with pizzas, you d build your fire according to instructions for pizza at a temperature of 600-700F. The leftover embers after making the pizza are perfect for grilling a second course of steak kebabs with vegetables; then pop a tarte tatin into the oven afterward (with door closed) for a perfect end to a perfect meal. What could be simpler or more ideal for entertaining? Maurice gives you his tips on all this and much, much more. Also Includes a recipe conversion chart for conventional ovens
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Summary: Very informative book & video filled with great recipes
Comment: It is difficult to find books on wood-fired oven management and cooking, let alone a book/video combo on this subject matter. After seeing the ratings and reading the comments from the previous two reviewers of this book I was not sure what to expect, but ordered the book anyway. Having read sections of the book and watched the entire video I was not disappointed and in fact inspired to write my own review to praise it!
The book is printed on nice glossy paper, includes many beautiful color photos and the recipes are simple to follow using commonly available ingredients. Each recipe cross-references a chapter in the video that actually shows you how to prepare and cook the food. If a picture is worth a thousand words then a video (3 hours!) is priceless. The author clearly illustrates food preparation and discusses oven management to maximize the types of foods and cooking techniques one can use during a single firing of the wood-fired oven. If you own a wood-fired oven, after reading this book and watching the video you will feel very confident that you understand how to best prepare your food and use your oven to create a variety of great meals. If you don't own a wood-fired oven, you will be inspired to buy and use one!
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Summary: I beg to differ
Comment: I wasn't disappointed at all with the book. The other reviewer here admits that he didn't read the specs on the book, yet he was upset once he got it. Doesn't really make sense to me.
I found the book to be very informative and useful for wood-fired oven cooking. I've cooked several times in my oven for family and friends using the recipes, and everybody has left the house satisfied. The DVD is a nice bonus, the narrator seems like a cool guy. But the recipes are what make this book worth the money.
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Summary: Small but pretty
Comment: Buying this book was perhaps the first time I felt a little cheated by internet shopping. The book looks beautiful online, as do the recipes inside, but I was fairly taken aback by the small size of the book. I've learned that in the future, when buying a gift book, to look at the specs on dimension and page length. I bought this $40 cookbook as a Christmas present for another couple, and felt a little sheepish handing over what looked like a $10 paperback. Surely, the price of the book is all in that DVD in the back (which I haven't seen so cannot comment on), but the overall marketing of the book disappointed me.
That aside, the person I gave it to, who has a brand-new brick oven, was delighted to get the book, for the same reason I selected it: it's not just about woodfire pizza. There aren't a lot of cookbooks out there on the subject of woodfire ovens, and this one covers a variety of culinary areas. Most of the others specialize on the pizza category.
I guess I just wanted to give a chunky hardcover cookbook for Christmas, y'know?
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