A Platter Of Figs And Other Recipes (2008) - Plot & Excerpts
The only thing that would have made me like this book more was if I had wanted to cook more recipes in it. Tanis and I simply don't share the same palette and that's no end of the world. In the mean time, the writing is enjoyable. The pictures lovely. The recipes clear and sensible. I love that the book is arranged in menus by season. Tanis is a bit of a romantic but once I figured that out, I could accept and even be entertained by it. Overall a very solid read. This is not a cookbook for your-meal-in-thirty-minutes. This is like a book format of that lovely-and-yet-slightly-unrealistic-fine-cooking-magazine. Most people do not have the time and inclination to spend part of their day - everyday - at the farmer's market to buy the freshest produce and products. As much as we'd like for that to happen, this is just not a reality in most people's lives and those who say otherwise are either naive or simply arrogant. That being said, this is a gorgeous, gorgeous cookbook. It gives an aspiring cook to look at food from another angle, gives you ideas for your own meals, and gives the fig a pop of life (figs being rather short-lived) that will make you reconsider it as a food item and even, dare I say it, look forward to its coming every year. And that's just one part.
What do You think about A Platter Of Figs And Other Recipes (2008)?
Good book. I still think anything having to do with Alice Waters is so pretentious I vomit.
—taneve
Lovely, but nothing that struck me as so incredibly tasty that I couldn't wait to try it.
—buscandopalabras
Gorgeous photos, simple recipes, and wonderful text - a cookbook that you actually read!
—konker969
