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Bezig met laden... One More Croissant for the Road: Felicity Cloake (editie 2020)door Felicity Cloake (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Felicity Cloake, food writer for The Guardian, has written an amusing account of her bicycle journey around France sampling the key cuisine from each area she passes through – cassoulet in the southwest, boeuf bourguignon in Burgundy, and fish soup in Marseille. She includes recipes, tips on purchasing food in France, and hilarious accounts of camping in the rain, entering posh restaurants in her oil-streaked cycling apparel and clickety-clack shoes, and persuading her non-cycling friends up yet one more hill. One More Croissant for the Road is for people who love food, France, and/or cycling. Just one tip – you may want to prepare a gourmet snack before sitting down to read. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
'Joyful, life-affirming, greedy. I loved it' - DIANA HENRY 'Whether you are an avid cyclist, a Francophile, a greedy gut, or simply an appreciator of impeccable writing - this book will get you hooked' - YOTAM OTTOLENGHI The nation's 'taster in chief' cycles 2,300 km across France in search of the definitive versions of classic French dishes. A green bike drunkenly weaves its way up a cratered hill in the late-morning sun, the gears grinding painfully, like a pepper mill running on empty. The rider crouched on top in a rictus of pain has slowed to a gravity-defying crawl when, from somewhere nearby, the whine of a nasal engine breaks through her ragged breathing. A battered van appears behind her, the customary cigarette dangling from its driver's-side window... as he passes, she casually reaches down for some water, smiling broadly in the manner of someone having almost too much fun. 'No sweat,' she says jauntily to his retreating exhaust pipe. 'Pas de problème, monsieur.' A land of glorious landscapes, and even more glorious food, France is a place built for cycling and for eating, too - a country large enough to give any journey an epic quality, but with a bakery on every corner. Here, you can go from beach to mountain, Atlantic to Mediterranean, polder to Pyrenees, and taste the difference every time you stop for lunch. If you make it to lunch, that is... Part travelogue, part food memoir, all love letter to France, One More Croissant for the Road follows 'the nation's taster in chief' Felicity Cloake's very own Tour de France, cycling 2,300km across France in search of culinary perfection; from Tarte Tatin to Cassoulet via Poule au Pot, and Tartiflette. Each of the 21 'stages' concludes with Felicity putting this new found knowledge to good use in a fresh and definitive recipe for each dish - the culmination of her rigorous and thorough investigative work on behalf of all of our taste buds. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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However, I have to confess that if anything has recently made me interested in exploring a bit more of the French cuisine, it was this book. The best, funniest and buttery-est travel book I’ve read so far, it has Felicity Cloake going on a true odyssey of French cuisine while cycling around the whole country - and still managing to keep track of all croissants sampled on the way (complete with her own ranking system).
Highly recommended, without any doubt. ( )