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Chargement... The Soup Peddler's Slow & Difficult Soups: Recipes And Reveriespar David Ansel
   Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.   ) etznab | Feb 22, 2009 |  louparris | Feb 17, 2008 |  ) krsball | May 6, 2007 | David Ansel's "The Soup Peddler's Slow and Difficult Soups" (Ten Speed Press, $17) can actually be read like an engaging novel. Ansel is a laid-back hippie-type who delivers his homemade soup around Austin, Texas, pulling it in a trailer attached to his bike (so he's both a soup peddler and a soup pedaler). Anecdotes between the recipes sketch out a wacky, friendly world that's straight out of "Austin Stories." Ansel is the Soup Man, his clients are the Soupies, his bike is Old Yellow, and he engages in a running feud with warm-weather competitor The Ice-Cream Man. Ansel says the use of "Slow and Difficult" in his book's title is an unsubtle dig at our fast-food culture. Some of his soups are about the opposite of "slow and difficult" as you can get. His chompy-chomp black bean soup is ready in just 10 minutes with hardly any chopping, and it's amazingly tasty. (You purists who want nothing canned in a recipe, however, run away while the rest of us dig in.) While the black-bean soup and the equally simple gazpacho were tasty treats, Ansel's Hungarian goulash completely flopped for me. The stew beef never tenderized nor tasted anything but bland. And it can be tough for a home cook to dive into many of Ansel's recipes — he warns that his smoked duck and andouille gumbo will take all day. Others require ingredients that may be tough to find — amchur powder for the pumpkin-pear soup; pasilla chiles, chipotle en adobo and textured vegetable protein for the chili; guascas for the ajiaco. Reading Ansel's book is like dropping into a Texas version of Maupin's "Tales of the City." It's hard to read about life in Ansel's Austin and not want to move there, buy a house on his soup route and become a regular at his friends' monthly Family Dinner. But as far as the soup recipes go, this cook is sticking to the simpler ones. —G.F.C. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8574948/page/3/ GaelFC | Nov 3, 2006 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
With just a yellow bike, a used trailer, and a few two-quart containers of homemade gumbo, David Ansel began peddling soupto his friends and neighbors in the free-spirited community of Bouldin Creek in Austin, Texas. He dubbed his loyal customers "Soupies," and as word of his grassroots soup service spread, his delivery roster grew into a veritable Cult of the Bowl.THE SOUP PEDDLER'#65533;?S SLOW & DIFFICULT SOUPS is David'#65533;?s heart- and belly-warming story of his first soup season peddling to the slacker-philosophers, artist-activists, and celebrity-eccentrics of Bouldin Creek. On his route, you'#65533;?ll meet a cross-dressing mayoral candidate, a radical coterie of plant liberators, a scheming ice cream man, and Alex the Wonder Dog, among others. To season his stories, David shares 35 of his most popular soups, with eclectic recipes like South Austin Chili, Alaskan Salmon Chowder, Smoked Tomato Bisque, Schav (Jewish sorrel soup), and Ajiaco (Colombian chickencornsoup).A loving homage to the art, science, and joy of soup, and a taste of simpler times in our modern fast-food nation, SLOW & DIFFICULT SOUPS is a rousing reminder of our basic need to connect to our food-and those who cook, deliver, and slurp it.Reviews:"How could you not love a book by a Jewish boy from Texas that combines thoughts about fudgecicles, Baptist preachers, dogs, and a band called the Barbecuties with soups from Austin, Algeria, Armenia, and just about every place in between? Great recipes and a great read."-Ari Weinzweig, cofounder of Zingerman'#65533;?s"David has produced a book full of insightful, personal stories and well-crafted recipes. SLOW & DIFFICULT SOUPS provides the reader with a front row seat to his unique culinary adventure."-John Campbell, creator of Central Market"SLOW & DIFFICULT SOUPS is filled with the sense of community David and his business embody; it shows us how the slow food movement is meant to be lived."-Steven Bercu, CEO of BookPeople"Reading these tales is like following David on his bike as he brings his soups to the people of Austin. He'#65533;?s a first-class storyteller and one helluva soupmaker."-Joan Nathan, author of Jewish Cooking in America Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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