Overview
Bacon. It's crispy, salty, smoky, sweet ...and totally irresistible. Renowned food writer James Villas offers 168 intriguing ways to savour the flavour of everyone's favourite meat, ranging across America and around the globe. You'll find familiar favourites like Spaghetti alla Carbonara and Cobb Salad as well as more exotic but equally delectable fare, such as California Hangtown Fry and Portuguese Egg and Bacon pudding. Illustrated with beautiful colour photographs throughout and featuring sources for today's best artisanal and international bacon, 'The Bacon Cookbook' is your guide to a world of bacon possibilities and pleasures. AUTHOR: James Villas' work has appeared in Esquire, Food & Wine, Gourmet, Bon Appetit, and the New York Times. He won James Beard Awards for Journalism in 2003 for 'Pig: King of the Southern Table'.
Full Product Details
Author: James Villas ,
Andrea Grablewski
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Dimensions:
Width: 21.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 26.20cm
Weight: 1.254kg
ISBN: 9780470042823
ISBN 10: 0470042826
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 01 October 2007
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability: In Print
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.
Reviews
In this exuberant parade of pork fat, there is no doubting the flap copy when it states that Villas, former food Editor for Town & Country , has been 'beguiled by bacon since he was a boy'. ( Publishers Weekly, September 3, 2007) there is nothing standard about Villas book...shows the versatility of bacon...Vegetarians beware; these dishes could prove too tempting. ( Independent, September 13, 2008)
In this exuberant parade of pork fat, there is no doubting the flap copy when it states that Villas, former food Editor for Town & Country, has been 'beguiled by bacon since he was a boy'. (Publishers Weekly, September 3, 2007) there is nothing standard about Villas book...shows the versatility of bacon...Vegetarians beware; these dishes could prove too tempting. (Independent, September 13, 2008)
Author Information
James Villas was the food and wine editor of Town & Country magazine for twenty-seven years. His work has also appeared in Esquire , Food & Wine , Gourmet , Bon Appetit , Saveur , the New York Times , and the Atlantic Monthly , among other publications. Two of his cookbooks have been nominated for a James Beard Award, he has won two James Beard Awards for journalism, and he received Bon Appetit 's Food Writer of the Year Award in 2004. Villas is the author of more than a dozen cookbooks and books on food, including My Mother's Southern Kitchen , Crazy for Casseroles , Between Bites , Stalking the Green Fairy , and, most recently, The Glory of Southern Cooking .
