Diplomatic dining

By Helen Kindler Behrens

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812904893
• ISBN13: 9780812904895
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A good book, even if dated

Helen Behrens has a lot of recipes that are still not very common here in US, I think, and has some very funny stories to go with them about struggling as a diplomat's wife to cook in different countries with unfamiliar foods and customs. We think we know all about foods from all over the world now. It is not the same as when Julia Child first taught us almost- French-Cooking, 1964. So this book will strike some as rather quaint, I'm sure. Still, some of the dishes are very much what we might make now, and I think there are many recipes from various countries that many of us are not familiar with that deserve sampling. I bought my copy in 1974 and don't use it anymore, since I turned vegetarian, but if I were still a carnivore, I think I would still have it on my shelf. At the modest price I see it listed for, I think it might be intresting just to buy and browse through, if you are interested in different foods from different cultures, and food stories. I see that she uses "pickles" in her Remoulade Sauce. I learned to make that from Escoffier's book, using Cornichons (of course) and have been disappointed that modern recipes have taken them out, since it was the Cornichons, i.e, pickles, that were distinctive in this sauce. I wonder if her old recipes of some dishes I am not familiar with might be closer to the originals than in some modern books? And perhaps, better?