Ismail Merchant's Paris: Filming and Feasting in France with 40 Recipes
Author: Ismail Merchant
Film, food, and cooking are Ismail Merchant's great passions. And nowhere are these passions more intertwined than in France, where Merchant has made eight films, among them Surviving Picasso and A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries. In this treat for film buffs and food lovers, illustrated throughout with color photographs, Merchant serves up hilarious vignettes from his filmmaking days in France-starring Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Vanessa Redgrave, Isabelle Adjani, and Paul Newman, among many others-as well as mouth-watering stories about the many memorable French meals he's prepared and enjoyed. To top it all off, he presents his 40 favorite French recipes, from culinary masterworks created by famed four-star chefs to actress Jeanne Moreau's pte de pomme.
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Matsutake Mushroom: The White Gold Rush of the 1990s
Author: Jerry Guin
This journal and guide by Jerry Guin explains how to identify, harvest, sell, and buy the matsutake, best time to hunt, some better growing locations, Forest Service regulations, what you should bring, special tips to make finding matsutakes easier. It documents this modern day goldrush in Washington, Oregon and northern California as seen through the eyes of a man who knows the wild mushroom market first as a picker, and later as a buyer.
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