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TOP 1000 #23Simple French Food

Simple French Food

By Richard Olney

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Richard Olney’s 1974 classic is consistently rated ckbk’s ‘most recommended’ for good reason. The American-born food writer’s prose is so elegant, his recipes so surprisingly concise, and his thoughts and reflections on Provencal village life, gastronomy, wine, and human nature so knowing and well observed that the book demands to be read and re-read – and, most of all, to be cooked from.
Original Publisher
Atheneum
Date of publication
1974
ISBN
0544242203

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Recommended by

Allan Jenkins

Editor, Observer Food Monthly,

I am in a bit of a panic, I can't find my copy. I have lent it to someone and I don't remember who and it seems they have forgotten. All Olney's books are brilliant. I chaired a panel that declared his French Menu Cookbook the best of all time. But for my own taste, this edges the others. As much about good eating as cooking (obviously), now where the hell is mine?

Skye Gyngell

Chef and Author

Although I've owned this book for over twenty years it still gives me great pleasure as I turn each page. Each summer we put on the menu his beautiful dish of rabbit with cucumbers - it's one of my favourite summer dishes.

Cheryl Cohen

Farmer's market organizer

When I first read this, the list of ingredients was a revelation. Rocket was unknown, so I found the seed and grew it myself. The pages on the Impromptu Composed Salad should be required reading.

Francis Percival

Food Editor, The World of Fine Wine and co-founder and convenor of the London Gastronomy Seminars

Elizabeth David was the better prose stylist, but I have always found Richard Olney's recipes easier to follow...

Rita Erlich

Food writer

Nothing's actually simple, but it conveys such understanding of French cooking. Also Lulu's Provencal Table.

John Birdsall

Food Writer

Makes the case for French food as an ethos and a feeling, not a compendium of exact formulas.

Paul Levy

Writer and former chair of the Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery

The seminal book from one of the few writers/cooks ever to create a genuinely new recipe.

Tamasin Day-Lewis

Writer, film maker

Wholly unpretentious local recipes, and a life in food/food in life feel.

Fran Warde

Author

A small and tasty gem of a cookery book.

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