The Pleasures of Slow Food, Cookbook of the Day

by Nicole Weston, Posted Oct 17th 2006 @ 8:03AM

Here's a cookbook that is for those who enjoy a book with a good read as well as one with recipes. The Pleasures of Slow Food is about the movement for appreciating every aspect of how food is made and where it comes from, rather than just concentrating on getting food from your plate and into your stomach as quickly as possible. For those who really follow the slow food movement, it is a philosophy and a way of life, but for the rest of us, it is something to be appreciated for its food, if not always followed to the letter.

This cookbook will tell you a lot about the ideas behind slow food, pairing them with about 60 recipes from chefs around the country and the world that use those same ideas; the chefs are some of the big names that support "slow food". You'll hear a lot about local ingredients and traditional - meaning slow, steady and perhaps even a bit old fashioned - cooking methods throughout the text and, while the book can be inspiring, since slow food often focus so heavily on local foods, you find yourself reading the book for fun/education and heading to your local farmer's market to pick up whatever is in season rather than trying to recreate all of the recipes in here.

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