Nicole Alper - The Everything Easy Gourmet Cookbook: Over 250 Distinctive recipes from arounf the world to please your family and friends

THE
EVERYTHING
Easy
Gourmet
COOKBOOK

Over 250 distinctive recipes from around the
world to please your family and friends

Nicole Alper

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ISBN: 1-59337-317-1 (paperback)
ISBN: 978-1-60550-432-2 (EPUB)
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J I H G F E D C B A

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Alper, Nicole.
The everything easy gourmet cookbook / Nicole Alper.
p. cm.
(An everything series book)
ISBN 1-59337-317-1
ISBN: 978-1-60550-432-2 (EPUB)
1. Cookery, International. I. Title. II. Series: Everything series.

TX725.A1A45 2005
641.59 dc22
2004026843

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The Easy Gourmet Cookbook

Dear Reader:

My love affair with food began when I was very young. My French mother, Brnice, would always be in the kitchen, whipping up a classic French dish, feeding us from her native menu, rather than an American one. The smells of coq au vin and boeuf bourguignon regularly wafted through our house, planting in my impressionable mind a hunger for gourmet cuisine.

Today, as a food and travel writer, my journeys have led me across the globe, and into some of the world's finest restaurants. On my adventures, I have encountered chefs whose fertile culinary imaginations create wondrous concoctions, using only the richest cream, the freshest produce, the most pungent truffles.

In this book, I have drawn on the expertise of many of these chefs in an effort to inspire you to visit exotic lands, either in person or in your own kitchen. I have focused on recipes I call easy gourmet a phrase that you will soon discover is not at all an oxymoron. Food and travel are truly two of life's most precious gifts, and I hope you will enjoy their flavorful marriage within these pages.

Bon apptit!