📗 Libro en inglés THE PEDANT IN THE KITCHEN

The Pedant s ambition is simple He wants to cook tasty nutritious food he wants not to poison his friends and he wants to expand slowly and with pleasure his culinary repertoire A stern critic of himself and others he knows he is never going to invent his own recipes although he might in a burst of enthusiasm increase the quantity of a favourite ingredient Rather he is a recipe bound follower of the instructions of others It is in his interrogations of these recipes and of those who create them that the Pedant s true pedantry emerges How big exactly is a lump Is a slug larger than a gout When does a drizzle become a downpour And what is the difference between slicing and chopping This book is a witty and practical account of Julian Barnes search for gastronomic precision It is a quest that leaves him seduced by Jane Grigson infuriated by Nigel Slater and reassured by Mrs Beeton s Victorian virtues The Pedant in the Kitchen is perfect comfort for anyone who has ever been defeated by a cookbook and is something that none of Julian Barnes legion of admirers will want to miss