Reviews for Wilder Shores of Gastronomy: Twenty Years of the Best Food Writing from the Journal Petits Propos Culinaires

The average rating for Wilder Shores of Gastronomy: Twenty Years of the Best Food Writing from the Journal Petits Propos Culinaires based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-05-25 00:00:00 Tiffany Moore This is a fun book, but is really for foodies. All kinds of weird articles about random things - the Norwegian Porridge Feud, about the spread of certain foodstuffs from the Middle East in the Middle Ages, how to cook on a car engine, how red peppercorns aren't actually peppercorns, the world's largest pie, etc.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-03-21 00:00:00 Gerry Berzinski Five stars for any book that contains both the phrase and a recipe for 'pudding catchup'. --It's brandy sauce. For your ice cream. Or your pudding, I guess, whatever. This book is great. I can't recommend the home remedy section enough, which eventually led me down a rabbit hole to the discovery that Bacon's rebellion was in part successful because the redcoats ate jimsonweed salad en route and were tripping too hard to show up. Don't take it so seriously, maybe don't boil your potatoes for eight hours, and enjoy Miss Leslie's voice, which shows up from time to time even in what is otherwise a pretty dry cookbook.