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When a passionate cook is a writer, sooner or later the two callings are
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| Passionate Vegetarian:
Over 1,000 robust recipes with notes cooking,
eating, loving, and living fearlessly
(2002, Workman Publishing;
115,000 copies in print. Winner, James Beard Award) |
| Crescent's
most recent cookbook, all 1,128 pages of it, has drawn
compliments and honors galore, and achieved "most frequently used"
status among home cooks, vegetarian and non-, everywhere. The gist? You don't have to
"be" a vegetarian to love and use and feast from this cookbook, any more
than you need "be" Italian to love pasta --- as you will quickly
discover from the book's many enthusiastic reader reviews at
www.amazon.com.
From main courses to desserts,
curries to chilies, grains to gateaus, cookies to compotes,
Passionate
Vegetarian
has it all, including
its very own web site. |
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| Winner of the
James Beard Cookbook Award, nominated for the IACP Cookbook Award. On
the "10 Best Cookbooks of the Year" Lists of more than 25 newspapers.
Featured in Bon Appetit. Over 1,000 recipes, dozens and
dozens of
informational sidebars. CD's special variety of storytelling.
(Wonder what living with this mega-cookbook in process was like? Check
out Notes from the
Cookbook Author's Husband.
Wonder how she "came up with all those recipes?" Check out
recipe creation.) |
Dairy
Hollow House Soup & Bread: A Country Inn Cookbook
(1992, Workman Publishing) |
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Crescent's
second inn-related cookbook, written in the days when she and
Ned
ran Dairy Hollow House, a much-acclaimed Ozark
country inn, this ornucopia of a book focuses on soup, bread and salad --- with "innecdotes"
galore.
Nominated for the Julia Child Cookbook
Award and the James Beard Cookbook Award. One the "10 Best Cookbooks of the
Year" Lists for the Washington Post and USA Today. Over 250 recipes. Over
260,000 copies sold.
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It is "...cuisine tied (not only to) a state, but
a state of mind... classic breads, baked from scratch, soups from the simple to
wildly innovative...light, seasonal, modern... a repository of regional cooking
but (also) a clearinghouse for new ideas. Making a roux is a personal
experience, a bonding with the author." –The Washington Post |
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Readers become "... guests at Dairy Hollow House
(who) ... often pause to inhale the soothing aromas: soups simmering, cornbread
sizzling in a skillet. Opening the pages (of this book) offers the
same
effect. It features the kind of recipes and reading that stimulate the
senses..." –Philadelphia Enquirer. |
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Friendly and advice-filled, you'll find Dairy Hollow
House Soup & Bread "... an easy and elegant winner...comfort
between these pages. This is a book for someone you'd like to spend Sunday night
suppers with." –Cleveland Plain Dealer |
The Dairy
Hollow House Cookbook;
Jan Brown, Co-Author
(Macmillan, 1983; Cato & Martin paperback, 1992) |
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Crescent's
first cookbook from the inn covers everything from breakfast to dessert and is "...brilliant
in its simplicity. A prime example of what a talented chef can do given a firm
sense of place and a feel for its products." –
New York Village
Voice.
Los
Angeles Times "10 Best Cookbooks of the Year List", 1986. Over 400
recipes. Over 30,000 copies sold.
Co-written with Jan Brown, Crescent's best "pan-pal". Both authors
share a passionate interest in preparing good food and serving it beautifully to
guests. This is a book for anyone who loves to cook good food for good
friends." –Tulsa Tribune
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More than two decades after it
was originally published in hardcover, THE DAIRY HOLLOW HOUSE COOKBOOK
is not only still selling briskly, it's still garnering rave reviews,
most recently in Little Rock Monthly, where it was recommended
as the first of four "Arkansas Books to Travel With." Editors noted
that CD "... an accomplished poet, novelist, and children's book writer
is equally known for her exquisite culinary skills and cookbooks ... we
are loyal fans of (this) fourteen-year-old cookbook... a journal from an
idyllic place, filled with snippets of verse, quotes, and inn lore...
you'll be entranced by the compelling prose... have fun being
transported (by this) ode to cooking and friends and good times."
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Unlike CD's other titles,
The
Dairy Hollow House Cookbook is almost impossible to find through
conventional on- or off-line booksellers. But you can easily buy a copy
at
www.DragonZBooks.com and
have it shipped right to your door. |
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Did you know? Hardcovers of the Dairy Hollow House Cookbook are selling
for as much as $60. But you can
buy the same book here, in paperback, for only $14.95 plus handling.
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And, not a cookbook,
but food related . . . |
This Is The Bread I Baked For Ned
(1989, Macmillan/Atheneum, illustrations by Isadore Seltzer, Hardcover, $14.95,
Paperback, $5.99)
Unexpected company, good cheer, and nourishment;
cumulative House-that-Jack-Built-esque tale with big colorful illustrations by
Isadore Seltzer. "Definitely a book to savor again 'in the morning' and
anytime. Satisfying... superlative." – School Library Journal.
The story behind this book: Ned came home after a
weekend away and CD showed him a loaf of bread she'd made, saying, "This is
the bread I baked for Ned." PAUSE. BEAT. Then... "Hey, that would make
a great children's book!" She disappeared with pen and notebook and in
hand... this is the result. |
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This is the Bread I Baked
for Ned is no longer available in hardcover, but limited numbers of the
paperback are available through
www.DragonZBooks.com. |
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