Real Stew: 300 Recipes for Authentic Home-cooked Cassoulet, Gumbo, Chili, Curry, Minestrone, Bouillabaisse, Stroganoff, Goulash, Chowder, and Much More

Clifford A. Wright

Harvard Common Press, 2002 - Cooking - 388 pages

The tradition of stew making is as old as the invention of the first pot. Wright takes cooks on a culinary voyage around the world to discover the favorite comfort foods of nearly 50 countries. These 300 recipes are the real thing: classic home food complete with culinary pedigrees. 80 illustrations.

Contents

• Stews with Veal: 57
• Stews with Lamb: 81
• Stews with Pork: 143
• Stews with Fowl Goat and Rabbit: 179
• Stews with Fish and Shellfish: 219
• Stews with Vegetables: 293
• Stews with Mixed Meats: 329
• Sources: 377

About the author

Clifford A. Wright won the James Beard/KitchenAid Cookbook of the Year award and the James Beard Award for the Best Writing on Food in 2000 for A Mediterranean Feast (William Morrow), which was also a finalist for the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) Cookbook of the Year award that same year. He is the author of fourteen books, twelve of which are cookbooks. Wright's articles on food and cuisine have appeared in Gourmet, Bon Appétit, Food & Wine, Saveur, and other magazines. He is a contributing editor to ZesterDaily.com. As an independent researcher, Wright wrote the food entries for Columbia University's Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and has published scholarly articles on food in peer-reviewed journals such as Al-Masaq: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean, Food and Foodways, and Gastronomica. Wright has also lectured on food at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, Boston University, Georgetown University, Davidson College in North Carolina, Loyola Marymount University, South Dakota State University, University of California at Santa Barbara, and the Culinary Institute of America, among other institutions. As a cooking teacher, he has taught cooking classes at the Central Market cooking schools in Texas, the Rhode Island School of Design, Institute for Culinary Education in New York, Sur la Table, and other cooking schools around the United States. His website www.CliffordAWright.com is one of the most-visited sites for people interested in Mediterranean foods. In 2009 he launched the Venice Cooking School ( www.VeniceCookingSchool.com ) with Martha Rose Shulman in Los Angeles, California. He lives in Santa Monica, California.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Real Stew: 300 Recipes for Authentic Home-cooked Cassoulet, Gumbo, Chili, Curry, Minestrone, Bouillabaisse, Stroganoff, Goulash, Chowder, and Much More
• Author: Clifford A. Wright
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Harvard Common Press, 2002
• ISBN: 1558321993, 9781558321991
• Length: 388 pages
• Subjects: Cooking / Courses & Dishes / General; Cooking / Courses & Dishes / Soups & Stews; Cooking / General