Margaret Powell's Cookery Book: 500 Upstairs Recipes from Everyone's Favorite Downstairs Kitchen Maid and Cook - Softcover

Powell, Margaret

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1250038561 ISBN 13: 9781250038562

Verlag: St. Martins Press-3PL, 2013

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Margaret Powell's Cookery Book: 500 Upstairs Recipes from Ev editado por Griffin

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"...I suspect the real story of the relationship of servants to their masters is more accurately told by Margaret Powell in her simple and quite brilliant "Below Stairs"..."What makes Powell such a credible narrator is the fact that she's never reflexively bitter or nasty. When she worked for a family that treated her with kindness... she was deeply grateful... Below Stairs retains its peculiar fascination." --The New York Times on Below Stairs

"An irresistible inside account of life "in service" and a fascinating document of a vanished time and place." --Kirkus Reviews on Below Stairs

"[A] sharply observed memoir... stands out in the tradition of literature about servants for being a true account...although the incidents are as vividly entertaining and disturbing as anything found in fiction." --Wall Street Journal on Below Stairs

"Powell was the first person outside my family to introduce me to that world ...I certainly owe her a great debt." --Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey on Below Stairs

Reseña del editor:

In the national bestseller Below Stairs, Margaret Powell told readers what it was really like to work in the great houses of England. In Margaret Powell's Cookery Book, she gives readers a closer look at the world inside the vast kitchens of these great houses. It's an eye-opening and mouthwatering snapshot of that world. The upstairs dining room always demanded the best of Continental cuisine and, cooking downstairs, Margaret Powell obliged. Her cookery book is a firsthand account of the way English people cooked and dined in the early twentieth century when houses like those in "Upstairs, Downstairs" and "Downton Abbey" were fully staffed and running like clockwork. Describing kitchen equipment such as the black ranges that had to be shined daily, the fancy moulds that needed screen covers to keep out the flies and tubs of ice that were used instead of refrigerators, she tells readers just how big a job it was to keep the upstairs dining table abundantly filled. Giving away the secrets of the manor, she presents more than 500 recipes, from the simple to the sophisticated. Divided into chapters such as Hors d'oeuvre, Soups, Fish, Entrees, Roasts and Meat Dishes , Savouries, Puddings and others, she shows readers today what it was like to eat well, if you were a member of England's upper class. Classic, but simple, dishes such as Shepherd's Pie and Roast Chicken Stuffed with Herbs alternate with sophisticated fare and long-lost recipes like Potatoes a la Florence, Rabbit Pilau, Compote of Snipe, Sardines a la Bombay and Queen Mab Pudding. With her trademark wit and gimlet eye, she tells readers what it was like to cook for her "betters" but she also states one thing proudly--"Food is more than just food. I like it be prepared and cooked well, and I like trouble taken over it." Behind every well-fed family like the Crawleys of "Downton Abbey" or the Bellamys of "Upstairs, Downstairs" was a cook like Margaret Powell and, now, she invites readers everywhere to the feast.

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• Verlag: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1250038561
• ISBN 13: 9781250038562
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 354