The Gastronomical Tourist: Memories and Recipes of a Bistro Crawler at Home and Abroad

by Arthur Bloomfield

Book Overview

A cookbook with a difference, The Gastronomical Tourist combines easy-to-prepare bistro recipes with an elegant and witty remembrance of things past. Author Arthur Bloomfield serves up culinary... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887394426
• ISBN13: 9780887394423
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Creative Arts Book Company
• Length: 197 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Over 200 bistro recipes

The Gastronomical Tourist: Memories And Recipes Of A Bistro Crawler At Home And Abroad combines over 200 bistro recipes with an affectionate recollection of fine dining in small bistros around the world, and discusses such varied topics as what makes a Nicoise Salad, and memories of eating Peruvian Chowder in San Francisco. Mouth-watering descriptions blend with dishes which are equally appealing and surprisingly simple.

Unique and delightful

This book combines great eating and great travel experiences into a unique reading experience. I can't imagine any reader putting down this book without either running eagerly into the kitchen or booking a flight to some of the romantic eating places described here. A wonderful bonus is the delightful writing style.

Henry Miller would have liked this book

I was lucky enough to see an advance copy of this book and hear a reading from it. Bloomfield has the story-telling skills of Henry Miller or Garrison Keilor as applied to both the details and the romance of food preparation.The background for the recipes is a range of travel, literary, and personal discoveries that give food and cooking a whole new dimension.Starting with a table of contents laid out like a high-class menu with entrees salads fish meat chicken vegetables, and wrapping up with desserts, Bloomfield is like a Nabokov at the stove as he listens to the musical pitch of a simmering tomato sauce.And that's a mere throwaway line in this welter of literary, culinary and travel interweavings.He's like Miller in the way he includes multiple sensibilities both in his narratives and in his culinary instructions.Bloomfield does for cooking what Miller does for sex--he makes it adventurous and really tasty again....A great book to read to friends (before or after dinner).Also recommended: Henry Miller Colossus of MaroussiCopyright (c) 2002 by Daniel Duncan. All rights reserved.