Farmhouse Kitchen Favorites

By Paula S. Croteau and Paula S. Croteau

Paula Croteau's Farmhouse Kitchen Cooking School has become an institution in the up-and-coming food and wine region on the North Fork of Long Island. Many people return to the cooking school week after week, year after year, not only to learn the secrets of Paula Croteau's timeless recipes and cooking style, but also for the peace of mind they find through the making and breaking of bread, appetizers, sauces, casseroles, soups, salads, meats, local fish dishes, deserts and more. Most students are as comfortable in the farmhouse kitchen as they are in their own. Paula knows that "it's not about the food." It's really about the love you find only in the kitchen, about creating a community with the simple intention of making a meal. The daughter of a Polish potato farmer, Paula lives and conducts her school in the kitchen of an historic farmhouse just down the road from her father's former potato fields. The restored farmhouse is surrounded by barns, vineyards, and the tasting barn and garden for Croteaux Wines, the winery she and her husband founded that focuses only on upscale rose wines. Paula's recipes and cooking utilize the best of local farm produce and other local products such as seafood from the waters surrounding The North Fork. "Farmhouse Kitchen Favorites" now brings together for the first time in book form the wisdom and style embodied in Paula's famous Farmhouse Kitchen Cooking School, a simple process of cooking and sharing a meal that yields serenity, a full stomach and a full spirit.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0983075301
• ISBN13: 9780983075301
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Four Crows, Inc.
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.3" x 6.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up