The Splendid Grain - About
About the Book
The elegant masterpiece, The Splendid Grain, is the benchmark grain cookbook. With 250 luscious recipes, it amazes cooks with grain's power to remarkably transform the taste and texture of food. This comprehensive book features both common and exotic grains.
Now more than ever Americans are looking for delicious ways to integrate extra-ordinarily healthful whole grains into their lives without having to change their lifestyles. The Splendid Grain shows you how whole grains can replace or be added to recipes to not only kick up the nutritional value of every meal but to add essential flavor and flair. Herein oats form the nutty, sweet crust of fried chicken; piquant quinoa heightens and absorbs the savory juices of gingered lamb; and hearty buckwheat flour becomes a sweet, delicate, Parisian-inspired crepe.
The Splendid Grain reinvents every meal using grains to broaden, deepen, and expand every cook's repertoire. Here too are far-ranging recipes that draw on authentic tastes from around the world. Since no feast would be complete without its indulgences, The Splendid Grain utilizes grains to exquisitely sweet advantage.
A revolution is quietly taking place in restaurants and in our kitchens, where we are cooking with more unusual grains like quinoa, millet, and wheat berries in addition to the more familiar rice, buckwheat, and corn. The Splendid Grain provides irresistible recipes for these grains and also introduces the next frontiers in grain cooking: tef and sorghum from North Africa, Job's tears from Asia, and mesquite and amaranth from America.
Wood's expertise on the natural and native history of grains, their medicinal and nutritional properties, and her exhaustive knowledge of selection, storage, and cooking methods make the Splendid Grain not only a remarkable cookbook but an essential resource. The Splendid Grain expands the possibilities for high-octane healthful eating with glorious food for every appetite.
Author Rebecca Wood, a leading expert on grain cookery since the 1970s portrays the distinct personality of fifteen different grains. Knowing their stories helps the reader develop a culinary relationship with each. Wood's recipes then feature each grain at its standout best.
The Splendid Grain is an invaluable resource for everyone wanting basic-and innovative-grain recipes. It enables you to bring extraordinarily healthful grains into your life without changing your lifestyle.