By Myrna Waldo (1954/1957)
[FROM THE PUBLISHERS]
There's never been a cookbook quite like this one. More than 600 recipes make it big. All the most popular dishes from eighty-four different countries make it versatile. And Myra Waldo's candid and appetizing discussions of the eating and drinking habits of each country make it irresistible.
It's a book bubbling over with surprises. Take the section on Finland, for example. This little Scandinavian country eats well and heartily as the following menu, prepared in your own kitchen, will prove. You might start with kurkkukeitto, a cucumber soup made with chicken stock, cream, eggs, sherry, and a number of other good things besides cucumbers. Then you could serve kananmaksaa omenien kansaa, chicken livers sautéed in butter with a sauce of apples, lemon juice, and currant jelly. You would also want to try sienimureke, mushrooms baked in a mixture of bread crumbs, onions, eggs, and cream. For dessert there are the famous suomalainen pannukakku --those tiny, light, and toothsome Finnish pancakes, each with a thin slice of apple cooked inside, and served with preserved lingonberries.
But Finland is just one of the countries you'll visit with Myra Waldo. There are equally tempting stopovers in such exotic lands as Siam, Afghanistan, the Fiji Is- lands, or Venezuela-and also the United States. Miss Waldo has included a quan- tity of useful and lighthearted travel in- formation in her introduction to each country. And, seasoned guide that she is, she has left nothing to chance. All weights and measures are given in American terms and each recipe has been home-tested. There is a mouth-watering glossary for gourmets, a lexicon of basic cooking terms, a chart of comparative weights and measures, a list of basic requirements for the kitchen, as well as a geographical list of the dealers where the foreign ingredients called for in some of the recipes may be obtained-just in case your corner grocer is fresh out of pignoli or poi. A complete index lists the dishes under their foreign as well as their American names.
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