Cooking With Tea: Techniques and Recipes for Appetizers, Entrees, Desserts, and More

By Vivian Gornick and Robert Atwan

Book Overview

From the Ritz Carlton to the Four Seasons to the world's finest spas, tea is the new ingredient of choice in today's most delicious recipes. In Cooking with Tea, novices and seasoned chefs alike can create mouth-watering dishes like Duck Foie Gras with Tea-Poached Apricots, Waldorf Salad with Mango Scented Keemun, and Orange Pekoe with Grand Marnier Souffle from easy-to-follow recipes and gorgeous color photographs. In addition to the 100 sumptuous recipes for condiments, side-dishes, entrees, desserts, and tea beverages, readers will discover: -- The history and different types of tea-- How to brew their own tea for cooking-- Tips for buying and storing tea-- Techniques used for cooking with tea-- How to pair teas with food-- Resources for teas and unusual ingredients, and much more-- A comprehensive collection of 100 tea-based recipes -- the newest trend in cooking-- Features stunning color photography-- Diana Rosen is the co-author of the popular The Tea Lover's Companion. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9625938168
• ISBN13: 9789625938165
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Periplus Editions
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 2.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 10.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Creative and Accessible

Robert Wemischner has created a cookbook that works. The recipes creatively use tea in an accessible form. This a a worthy successor to his "Vivid Flavors" cookbook. The author takes us beyond the standard fare, but in a way that a reasonable home cook can reproduce.

Incredible! Even better than I had hoped...

I am a big fan of tea. I also love meals that are both simple and elegant. I'm not your traditional "homestyle" cook. That said, I also hate fussy, pretentious food that requires a lot of time and fuss in the kitchen. This book was very much what I was looking for. The ideas presented here are flavorful and innovative. The presentations are simple, but lovely. The color photographs are plentiful, and beautiful...

This book is the best of it's kind!

While many tea cookery books focus on foods to serve with tea, this book shows you how to use tea as a basis for cooking a variety of foods. Beginning with a general introduction of tea, the book goes on to teach the reader about various types of teas, how to brew and store them, and then how to cook with them. This book is great for the newcomer or the experienced tea lover, the professional and not-so-professional cook...