An Eater Best Food Book of 2023A Smithsonian Best Food Book of 2023From the New York Timesbestselling author of Cod and Salt, a delectable look at the cultural, historical, and gastronomical layers of one of the worlds most beloved culinary staplesfeaturing original illustrations and recipes from around the world.As Julia Child once said, It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions. Historically, shes been rightand 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 sauts, stews, and sauces, but for medicines, metaphors, and folklore. Now theyre Kurlanskys 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 penandink drawings, Kurlansky begins with the science and history of the only sulfuric acidspewing 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 Senderenss onion soup eaten to cure latenight drunkenness Hemingways raw onion and peanut butter sandwich and the Gibson, a debonair gin martini garnished with a pickled onion. Just as the scent of sauted onions will...

Binding: Hardback;240 pages; Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA; Classification: HBA; Weight: 506 g; Dimensions: 147 x 219 x 26

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