Best of Tofu or Van Goghs Table

Best of Tofu

Author: Junko Takagi

The beautifully illustrated Best of Tofu presents tofu at its finest. Besides using tofu to achieve the subtle flavors of Japan, it provides variety of easy-to-follow inventive recipes from an emerging new generation of young chefs from Tokyo who are using tofu to reinvent world cuisine, including: twenty-five variations of chilled tofu and twenty-four entrees; simple recipes that go well with drinks; hot-pot dishes; recipes for preserving tofu; and delicious, light desserts. This book also introduces creative uses for okara, a by-product that remains when soymilk is pressed out from soybeans, which is widely used in Japan.

Best of Tofu also includes techniques of making tofu at home-draining techniques, methods of preservation, and how to serve. As well, this book includes helpful explanations about its different styles, texture, history, and nutritional information that are useful for menu planning.

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Van Gogh's Table: At the Auberge Ravoux

Author: Alexandra Leaf

At the Auberge Ravoux, in a tiny artists’ village twenty miles from Paris, Vincent Van Gogh found a measure of peace in his ill-starred life—and experienced an unparalleled burst of creativity, producing seventy masterpieces and studies. The Auberge still operates today as the Maison de Van Gogh. Little has changed since Van Gogh first set down his bags more than a century ago, and visitors are still treated to the comforting, delicious regional cuisine that he would have dined upon.

Here is a stirring view into Van Gogh’s world, as intimate as sharing poulet and pommes sautées with the artist himself. Written by the former Chief Curator of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam with one of America’s foremost culinary authorities, this unique cookbook/art book explores the role of the café in Van Gogh’s life. Includes more than 50 traditional recipes, ranging from hearty to refined, and 100 photographs, paintings, sketches, engravings, and letters, some never before seen in book form.

Table of Contents:

Van Gogh's Last Home
by Dominique-Charles Janssens

Part One
A Private Life in Public Places (6)
by Fred Leeman

A Place to Live, a Place to Work (11)
True Friends, Mere Acquaintances (39)
Give Us Our Daily Bread (57)
A Remedy Against Suicide (67)

The Auberge Ravoux
by Julia R.. Galosy

Part Two
Recipes from Van Gogh's Table
by Alexandra Leaf

A New Home in Auvers (100)
Cuisine Populaire (109)
Fields of Wheat and Flowering Peas (136)
Cuisine du Terroir (145)
Sunday Lunches with Dr. Gachet (172)
Cuisine Bourgeoise (179)