Pork and Sons
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. This delightful, affectionate homage to the pig is a blend of cookbook and travel guide, celebrating the pig and the bounty it provides. Reynaud, the owner and chef of restaurant Ville 9 Trois, just outside of Paris, learned about pigs through his butcher grandfather, attending his first pig killing at the age of seven. Now, more than 30 years later, he shares his reverence for tradition and all that the pig offers in this exceptional book. Takin… Buy Pork and Sons at Amazon
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Ash-Cooked Sausage
Yummm! Did it in the fireplace. Excellent taste altho wine evaporated too quickly as coals likely too hot.
I have over a thousand cookbooks and I can categorically state that this is probably the most beautiful cookbook in my collection. The book’s excellent graphic design and captivating pictures transport you to a totally different place. Its a place where you know by name the people who bring the food to your table. A place where meals are thought of and not expedited. A place where more effort is used in bringing food to the table and that effort is appreciated. The overall design is so successful that the reader forgets that certain portions are about slaughtering an animal or that there is a large amount of recipes about offal. I enjoy dishes made from offal but in my experience most people don’t. My only disappointment in the book is that it does not have any recipes for making the sausages. Then again, any frenchman will tell you that a toulouse sausage is not a toulouse sausage unless it was produced in Toulouse. I highly recommend this book.
This book is the most inclusive, insightful, and casual cookbook I own – from the 80+ books that occupy shelves and shelves. It is worth every cent, if not actually under priced. The sketches of the cartoons are great. There are too many strengths to mention. Reynaud covers practically every use of the pig from snout to tail and does so from primitive / traditional recipes to gourmet presentations with Pork, Pork, and Pork included in every dish.
Strongly recommended.
Craig Adcock
Belly Up Bar-B-Que.
The fabulous pig in all its glory, a photo on every page of the dish, photos that make you drool at the thought of the food, a witty and intimate text – just perfection even with American measures. The US got rid of King George, why not ditch the Imperial system for weights and measures?
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delicious piggies
This book is definitely one of my go to books when working with pork. I made a version of his pig feet, bacon, caramelized onions dish (page 190) and served it with a homemade…
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Exceptional Pork Pictures
Great book by someone who understands and treasures pork as an ingredient and a way of life. Exceptional food pictures accentuate the recipies and other information within the…
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Stunning book.
I’ve never written a review before but felt passionately about how good this book is that I felt I had to add my two cents.
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For the pork lover in all of us
Excellent book with a beautiful layout. Well described recipes, albeit using ingredients not always immediately available.
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For the Love of Pork!!!
If you love pork, then this is the book for you. Not only is it beautiful, but the author treats the humble pig with the love and respect it deserves.
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LOVE THIS BOOK!!!!
As an avid home chef and cookbook collector, I must say this is one of my favorite cookbooks. Each and every recipe is delicious.
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great book!
I love the book! The cover is sort of upholstered and soft, though it’s a hard cover book. It was shipped quickly and arrived in great shape.
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ingredients are hard to fin in U. S even in high end stores!
Bought this book because he was on Martha Stewart and its seemd fun!
It is a beauitful book and I’m sure the recipes taste good in France but some of the disches were just…
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What’s not to love about an all-pork cookbook?
This book celebrates the swine in a way it deserves. Absolutely gorgeous and delicious.