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Colette Gouvion and Arlette Sirot have created an array of soups which can be prepared in advance for entertaining without fuss, but with panache. Whether standard or exotic, hot or cold, sweet or savory, each recipe in Glorious Soups for Entertaining offers the makings of a complete one-pot meal.
These delicious soups can be paired with fritters, open sandwiches or profiteroles, carefully chosen for presentation in this book to enhance your meal. From the Nettles Soup and Snail Fritters to the Beer Soup and Waffles, each recipe comes with new ideas on how to arrange the soups mise en sc ne in a modern, appealing, playful yet sophisticated way.
In her introduction, Colette Gouvion observes that the soups presented are intended not "as dinner starters but rather as whole meals, meant to satisfy someone's hunger while enchanting the palate.
"Nearly all of them are so easy to prepare successfully that even a child could make them," Gouvion writes. "In general, soups do not require a great deal of preparation to get started.... Except for the elegant ones, their ingredients are generally economical and their quality-price ratio is second to none. They require only the most common set of pots. Almost all of them may be prepared ahead of time and heated up at the last moment. Soup, salad, cheese and dessert to finish -- no last-minute rush, no stressed cook when it's time to be seated at the table."
Co-author Arlette Sirot credits many sources of inspiration, from the countless cookbooks she has read to the chefs she has worked with, for contributing to the soups that now form the centerpiece of her restaurant menus. "I hope that the readers of this book take their turn in making the recipes their own, changing them as they please -- perpetuating this cuisine that is forevoer re-created throughout the years and even centuries, providing an inexhaustible source of pleasure," Sirot says.
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table of contents
Introduction
The Recipes
Refreshing Soups
Elegant Soups
Euphoriant Soups
Vegetable Soups
Invigorating Soups
From Snack to Dessert
Breads and Oils
A Ladle of Experience
ISBN: 1-931605-06-8
Price: $Out of print
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