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The core of an onion : peeling the rarest common food--featuring more than 100 historical recipes / Mark Kurlansky.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Description: x, 226 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781635575934
  • 1635575931
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Introduction: The fragrance of the Earth -- Part one: The world according to onions. An extraordinary Lily -- Old world onions -- The Americas know their onions -- Looking for the perfect onion -- Part two: How to eat an onion. Onion soup -- Sauces -- Boiled, braised, roasted, and stuffed -- Caramelized and glazed -- Creamed onions -- Fried -- Eggs and onions -- Puddings, custards, and cakes -- Tarts and pies -- Bloody onions -- A pickle -- Onion bread -- Sandwiches.
Summary: "As Julia Child once said, "It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions." Historically, she's been right--and not just in the kitchen. Uniquely flourishing in just about every climate and culture around the world, onions have provided the essential basis not only for sautés, stews, and stir fries, but for medicines, metaphors, and folklore. Abundantly commonplace yet extraordinarily indispensable, the onion is Kurlansky's newest global food fixation as he sets out to explore how and why the crop reigns over Wales to Italy and everywhere in between. Featuring historical images and his own pen-and-ink drawings, Kurlansky begins with the science behind the only sulfuric acid-spewing plant, then digs through the twenty varieties of onion and the cultures built around them. Among the first domesticated and cultivated crops, onions were seen by the ancient Egyptians as a symbol of eternity, the Greeks as an agent of strength, and the Chinese as a supplement for intelligence. Entering the kitchen, Kurlansky celebrates the raw, roasted, creamed, marinated, and pickled. Including twenty-five recipes from around the world, The Core of an Onion shares the secrets to celebrated Parisian chef Alain Senderens's onion soup eaten to cure late-night drunkenness; Hemingway's raw onion and peanut butter sandwich; and the Gibson, a debonair gin martini garnished with a pickled onion. Just as the smell of sautéed onions will lure anyone to the kitchen, The Core of an Onion is sure to draw readers into their savory stories at first taste"-- Provided by publisher.
List(s) this item appears in: 2024 FPL Reading Challenge: Feeling Hungry
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction New 641.6525 K96 Available 33111011226681
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

An Eater Best Food Book of 2023
A Smithsonian Best Food Book of 2023

From the New York Times- bestselling author of Cod and Salt , a delectable look at the cultural, historical, and gastronomical layers of one of the world's most beloved culinary staples -- featuring original illustrations and recipes from around the world.

As Julia Child once said, "It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions."

Historically, she's been right--and not just in the kitchen. Flourishing in just about every climate and culture around the world, onions have provided the essential basis not only for sautés, stews, and sauces, but for medicines, metaphors, and folklore. Now they're Kurlansky's most flavorful infatuation yet as he sets out to explore how and why the crop reigns from Italy to India and everywhere in between.

Featuring historical images and his own pen-and-ink drawings, Kurlansky begins with the science and history of the only sulfuric acid-spewing plant, then digs through its twenty varieties and the cultures built around them. Entering the kitchen, Kurlansky celebrates the raw, roasted, creamed, marinated, and pickled. Including a recipe section featuring more than one hundred dishes from around the world, The Core of an Onion shares the secrets to celebrated Parisian chef Alain Senderens's onion soup eaten to cure late-night drunkenness; Hemingway's raw onion and peanut butter sandwich; and the Gibson, a debonair gin martini garnished with a pickled onion.

Just as the scent of sautéed onions will lure anyone to the kitchen, The Core of an Onion is sure to draw readers into their savory stories at first taste.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-209) and index.

Introduction: The fragrance of the Earth -- Part one: The world according to onions. An extraordinary Lily -- Old world onions -- The Americas know their onions -- Looking for the perfect onion -- Part two: How to eat an onion. Onion soup -- Sauces -- Boiled, braised, roasted, and stuffed -- Caramelized and glazed -- Creamed onions -- Fried -- Eggs and onions -- Puddings, custards, and cakes -- Tarts and pies -- Bloody onions -- A pickle -- Onion bread -- Sandwiches.

"As Julia Child once said, "It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions." Historically, she's been right--and not just in the kitchen. Uniquely flourishing in just about every climate and culture around the world, onions have provided the essential basis not only for sautés, stews, and stir fries, but for medicines, metaphors, and folklore. Abundantly commonplace yet extraordinarily indispensable, the onion is Kurlansky's newest global food fixation as he sets out to explore how and why the crop reigns over Wales to Italy and everywhere in between. Featuring historical images and his own pen-and-ink drawings, Kurlansky begins with the science behind the only sulfuric acid-spewing plant, then digs through the twenty varieties of onion and the cultures built around them. Among the first domesticated and cultivated crops, onions were seen by the ancient Egyptians as a symbol of eternity, the Greeks as an agent of strength, and the Chinese as a supplement for intelligence. Entering the kitchen, Kurlansky celebrates the raw, roasted, creamed, marinated, and pickled. Including twenty-five recipes from around the world, The Core of an Onion shares the secrets to celebrated Parisian chef Alain Senderens's onion soup eaten to cure late-night drunkenness; Hemingway's raw onion and peanut butter sandwich; and the Gibson, a debonair gin martini garnished with a pickled onion. Just as the smell of sautéed onions will lure anyone to the kitchen, The Core of an Onion is sure to draw readers into their savory stories at first taste"-- Provided by publisher.

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