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Summary: Far more than just recipes!
Review: If you love food and cooking, you will adore this well-written and fascinting book. It has some wonderful recipes (try her way of "assembling" polenta and gorgonzola and you'll never eat it any other way!) but it's her essays that make this book so special. She writes lovingly about food, and shares great insights into the world of cooking and 'gourmet' restaurants (for example: "It is a long-standing sentiment among professional chefs that American recipes, while quaint and cozy, really do need to be sent off to finishing school abroad before they can appear in public. I suppose they aren't elegant enough for your average gourmand. Yet what is a French meringue but a mess of egg whites? Or creme brulee but a bowl of pudding?") Ain't it the truth! This is one "cookbook" that belongs on the literature shelf -- yet it also has some of the best recipes I've found. Buy it ... read it ... use it.
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Summary: Delicious
Review: In 16 essays Teresa Lust, ranges from home cooking to food history to the trade of learning in a professional kitchen. Her chapter, Fueling the Passions, alone is worth the price of the book. And after reading The Daily Grind, you'll always watch your order at a coffee bar. Excellent.
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Summary: If Pass The Polenta was a Wine, it would be a Five.
Review: Lust has intoxicated me with her writing where words strung together become magnificent aromas, memories of familial kitchen ethnic cooking, raising chickens, Pop's garden, and life growing up in the kitchen where everything was prepared fresh, from scratch, and with favorite family recipes. She has brought to my mind a memorable collection of essays on culinary subjects that everyone who loves to eat would love to read about, and especially in the way that she writes. She alivens the soul to once again slow down and experience preparing hearty food with love and care. "...Polenta" is definately a 5. Thank you Teresa for writing such an inspirational and touching book... and so young you are! Please write more!
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Summary: I read it straight through
Review: Teresa Lust is a talented writer and a charming person. Her stories warm you up and the food that she writes about is unpretentious but delicious. She gently proclaims her working class heritage throughout the book and I find that refreshing. She clearly loves what she does so her enthusiasm just runs all over you in a delightful way when you read this book. I read the book straight through! I really hope that Lust writes more books. Technically speaking, her essays were well researched and the bibliography that she compiled reflects that. The selection of essays is balanced and the editing is good. I counted three typos--not bad for a modern book.
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