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Jane Grigson (1928–1990)

Auteur van English Food

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Werken van Jane Grigson

English Food (1974) 367 exemplaren
Groentekookboek (1979) 366 exemplaren
Good Things (1971) 259 exemplaren
Jane Grigson's Fruit Book (1982) 257 exemplaren
Fish Cookery (1973) 183 exemplaren
The Mushroom Feast (1975) 150 exemplaren
Elseviers culinaire atlas (1974) 71 exemplaren
Food With the Famous (1979) 68 exemplaren
Puddings (1655) 34 exemplaren
The Enjoyment of Food (1992) 30 exemplaren
The cooking of Normandy (1987) 17 exemplaren

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Geboortedatum
1928-03-13
Overlijdensdatum
1990-03-12
Graflocatie
Christ Churchyard, Wiltshire, England, UK
Geslacht
female
Nationaliteit
UK
Geboorteplaats
Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Plaats van overlijden
Wiltshire, England, UK
Woonplaatsen
Sunderland, Durham, England, UK
Opleiding
Sunderland Church High School
University of Cambridge (Newnham College)
Casterton School
Beroepen
food writer
cookbook author
Relaties
Grigson, Geoffrey (husband)
Grigson, Sophie (daughter)
Korte biografie
Jane Grigson was born in Gloucester, England and brought up in Sunderland, where her father George Shipley McIntire was town clerk.[1] She attended Sunderland Church High School and Casterton School, Westmorland, then went on to Newnham College, Cambridge University, where she read English. On graduating from university in 1949, she spent three months in Florence. After working in art galleries, Grigson went into publishing, joining George Rainbird's company in 1953 as a picture researcher for the encyclopedic People, Places, Things and Ideas. The editor of the book was poet and critic Geoffrey Grigson (1905-85), whom she later married, becoming his third wife. Grigson subsequently worked as a translator, winning the John Florio prize in 1966 for her work with Father Kenelm Foster on the translation of Cesare Beccaria's On Crimes and Punishments (1966). Grigson's growing interest in food and cooking led to the writing of her first book, Charcuterie and French Pork Cookery (1967), which was accorded the unusual honour for an English food writer of being translated into French. She subsequently became food columnist for The Observer, from 1968 until her death in 1990. Her long-lasting association with the newspaper produced some of her most successful books, such as Good Things (1971), Food With the Famous (1979), The Observer Guide to British Cookery (1984) and The Observer Guide to European Cookery (1983). The International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) has created the Jane Grigson Award in her honour. Jane Grigson died in Broad Town, Wiltshire, on the eve of her 62nd birthday. Her daughter Sophie Grigson (b. 1959) is also a cookery writer and broadcaster.

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A coffee table art book, this seems to be a Charlotte Knox book of beautiful illustrations that needed text to fill it out and Knox asked friend Jane Grigson write the filler. Written in 1988 shortly after the newer refrigerated containers spread produce worldwide, "exotic" means new to the local non-ethnic British store. Articles range from "what is this" Wikipedia-style squibs; hearsay of Knox asking questions from a British museum expert that responded that he didn't know; fond memories of Grigson having the ingredient as a child; researched history following use in ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome from a significant dietary item, to neglected weeds, to modern comebacks; ingredients that are world-wide with a different name everywhere with different customs of cooking; and some of Grigson's favorites that she's had been using for decades. Many articles read like a collection of notecards with no transitions, using alternate names for the ingredient in each paragraph and another version in the recipes.
Recipes are presented in several styles: how to pick at the market then cut and peel; this ingredient must be good if harvested today, but by the time it travels to a British market and you must try it, then sauté in some butter; mentioned in the text to make the text longer; and standard cookbook recipes with title, list of measured ingredients, and preparation instructions. Some recipes are Grigson's, some credited to other authors, some modified to British tastes.
Warning: despite the book's title, most of the recipes are meat heavy.
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DromJohn | Aug 4, 2023 |
Mushroom barley soup, in the Middle-European manner, Michael Field, p.58; split into two batches, one with chicken stock, one with vegetable stock; ok, chicken stock version slightly better.
 
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DromJohn | Feb 15, 2021 |
Jane Grigson, the Contributing Editor of The World Atlas of Food, was brought up in the northeast of England, Which has a high reputation for its good food. After taking an English degree at Cambridge, she worked in art galleries, then in publishing offices and as a translator from French and Italian. A Visit to France in 1961 started her professional interest in cookery. The author of many cookery books she has been, since 1968, the cookery correspondent for The Observer magazine. Jane Grigson lives in Wiltshire, with her family, in a seventeenth-century farmhouse. Her main concern, as a cook, is the true quality of a food and how to bring out its basic flavour. She believes that the first necessity for a good cook is curiosity.
Like the classic The World Atlas of Wine, this companion volume is based on a simple idea: that pleasure is related to knowledge and understanding. So this superlative cookery book leads you to its 500 recipes by way of the gardens and orchards, the grain fields and pastures, the rivers, lakes and oceans that provide the good ingredients of all cuisines. Here are the reasons behind the recipes, the explanations of Why national cuisines differ and how the great dishes of the world came to be created. Through 80 pages of superb fullcolour paintings, a team of international writers, headed by Jane Grigson, explores everything edible from apples to zucchini. But this book is also an atlas that covers every major gastonomic region in the world. Sixty-five superbly detailed two-colour maps illustrate how special features of geography, climate and culture influence regional cuisine, how different cultures use the same foods and Why certain foods and food combinations are so satisfying that they occur over and over again in countries oceans apart. Hugh Johnson, author of The World Atlas of Wine, writes about the outstanding Wines and drinks of the world. And James Beard, one of the most famous of all food writers, gives an account of his own epicurean adventures around the world, ranging from the simple pleasure of eating grilled lamb in the streets of Athens to that of ordering the most sumptuous meals in Paris, London and New York. This, then, is much more than a cookery book. It is, as well, an encyclopedia of food and a culinary atlas. It is the most comprehensive book of its kind ever published, the ultimate book for all those who want to heighten their understanding of food and their joy in eating.
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Asko_Tolonen | 1 andere bespreking | Jul 13, 2020 |
This is a fun, and yet exasperating book. Some of the recipes I'd have liked the most are brief mentions, rather than recipes. It has a good, honest, old-fashioned recipe for mincemeat (although it will be hard for the modern cook to find a source for beef suet), but often gives short shrift to various honorable mentions in the description of a country.

James Beard wrote the introductory pages (1-80), and is listed along with the other contributors.
There are so many contributors listed for this book that I decided to list none of them.… (meer)
 
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