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Title: Cook’s Life, A
Author: ALEXANDER STEPHANIE
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 18/04/2016
Imprint: LANTERN/PENGUIN
Price: $25.00
Publishing status: Active
With her Cook’s Companion front and centre in half a million kitchens, Stephanie Alexander is the very definition of a household name. Each day thousands turn to this ‘food Bible’ for definitive recipes, encouragement and advice. But before Stephanie Alexander penned a word for the emerging food media – let alone for The Cook’s Companion – she had spent decades avidly documenting food experiences.
Shaped by her mother’s dedication to good food and her father’s love of reading, she trained as a librarian and all the while observed, notated, assessed and re-created the dishes she loved. Her monthly university allowance rarely lasted more than a week – all spent on pan-fried flounder and chestnut Mont Blanc. She was seduced over pain Poîlane while working as an au pair in Paris, and later over ackee and saltfish in London. In 1966, with no formal training and a newborn baby, but brimming with confidence and sheer determination, she opened Jamaica House with her first husband. The personal toll was great and it was eight years until she emerged on the restaurant scene again.
ISBN: 9781921384509
Pages: 368