The Prawn Cocktail Years
- ISBN-10
- 0718149807
- ISBN-13
- 9780718149802
- Category
- Cooking
- Pages
- 272
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Penguin Global
- Authors
- Lindsey Bareham, Simon Hopkinson
Description
While Lindsey Bareham was helping Simon Hopkinson put together his best-selling book, Roast Chicken and Other Stories, the two of them began to reminisce about hotel and restaurant dishes they had grown up with and always loved; those Cinderellas of the kitchen that we abandoned in our quest for the wilder shores of gastronomy. Classics such as Duck a l'Orange, Weiner Schnitzel, Moussaka, Garlic Mushrooms and, of course, Prawn Cocktail, have all been slung out like old lovers but when made with fine, fresh ingredients and prepared with care and a genuine love of good eating, these former favourites should grace the most discerning of tables. The Prawn Cocktail Yearssets out to rehabilitate the food we once loved and found exciting. In so doing, the authors take us on a cook's tour of the legendary post-war hotels and gentlemen's clubs with their Mulligatawny and Shepherd's Pie, to the bistros of Swinging London where Pati Maison and sizzling Escargots excited the braver palate.
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