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A World of Dumplings: Filled Dumplings, Pockets & Little Pies from around the Globe |
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Amazon Sales Rank: 73995
Publication Date: 2007-08-06
Publisher: Countryman
ISBN: 0881507202
Type: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 288
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The cookbook for making dumplings and small pies of all kinds, from pot stickers, ravioli, and knish to empanadas, pasties, and samosas—and many, many more.
Ever tried a Turkish borek? Swedish kroppkakor? How about Cajun meat pie? Acclaimed photographer Brian Yarvin has traveled to neighborhood kiosks, festivals, and restaurants in ethnic neighborhoods throughout the northeastern U.S. to bring more than 100 traditional dumpling and filled-pie recipes from places as near as Flushing, Queens to as far away as Uzbekistan and beyond.
Starting with the basics of dough making, steaming, and frying, Yarvin provides mouth-watering color photographs and step-by-step instructions so that anyone can recreate their grandmother's pierogi or street-food treat at home, using ingredients from the local supermarket. Also included are tips for where to buy hard-to-find ingredients, and—if you just can't stand the wait of making your own—ethnic neighborhoods where you can find dumplings ready-to-eat. Paperback with French flaps, full-color throughout, appendices, index.
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Review: 2009-01-07
Mixed review- LOVE the book but seems a bit impracticle for the average kitchen and expected more recipes.
First off the directions and pictures are amazing. Could not ask for better directions at all. There is also great advice about the basics and what you need. Those alone are worth having this book.
My biggest complaint about this book would be I wish there was more recipes for fillings. ESPECIALLY the less commonly known "dumplings". This is not just a "cookbook" the author has added a lot of background or stories as well. This IMO is a fun read and well written BUT kinda of takes away from my desire for more filling recipes. For Example the Samosa section- starts with the wrapper recipe and how to make, fill, form and cook a samosa (most wrappers have this GREAT INTRO and direction)... then there is a 4 page log of the author searching for a good samosa recipe. Followed is 2 recipes for samosa fillings (spicy vegatarian and ground lamb) ANOTHER page of story telling and ending with a recipe for Samosa Chaat- which pretty much a topping for samosas. There are some dumplings that have only scored one filling recipe like Japanese fried dumplings and Thai dumplings (which scored 2 sauce recipes?!?). Then to the other Extreme, the kind of "dumplings" anyone can find recipes very easily for, Raviolis and Tortellinis scored 10 filling recipes between the 2 of them! Plus a couple more recipes from Italy. The reason why I didnt like this is because many of these regional recipes call for special seasonings or oils I needed to go out and purchase. I am discouraged to try some if I need to buy a special ingredients needed for only 1 or 2 recipes. This is especially true if most regions call for a basic core season base. To be fair I am not the type of person that keeps 5 different kind of cooking oils on hand (off the top of my head I know that Lard, sesame, corn and peanut oils are needed for some of the different recipes.) And I have a small collection of "international" seasonings.
In this 276+ page book you will find about 120 recipes. Of these recipes there are 23 recipes are just for the various wrappers, pockets or dumplings needed for other recipes. Then throw in a handful of sauce recipes, a handful of sidedish recipes and a couple of soups and the actual recipes of your fillings keep dwindling. Now add the fact that this is broken up into 23 countries and Italy seems to have scored a large amount of filling recipes (I can buy books of just raviolis no problem ) and you start so see how "light" some dumplings must be for filling variantions.
Review: 2008-12-24
Perfect Service
This product was described well, arrived when expected, and was greatly enjoyed by my boyfriend who is a chef. He says there are also many great dipping sauce recipes in this book.
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