Lindy's Books and what the papers say
Essential Books for the domestic kitchen
CURED: salted, spiced, dried,smoked, potted, pickled, raw is a compendium of recipes, techniques and traditions for curing meat, fish and vegetables at home.
Originally, curing was a necessity – the only way food could be preserved before the advent of refrigeration. Now, it’s a luxurious way to enjoy unique, intense flavours in foods ranging from meat and fish to, fruit and vegetables.
Seven sections – each dedicated to a different method of curing – de-mystify this ancient technique and show how every cook can create delicious cured food in their own kitchen.
A truly global celebration of deliciously preserved dishes, recipes range from New York Deli pastrami and Native American venison jerky to the Japanese pickled and marinated fish, Sashimi and Shimi Saba. From Europe come smoked salmon and salt beef, German Liverwurst Sausage, salt cod dishes of both the Mediterranean and Scandinavia, and Italian classic antipasti in the form of Venetian Carpaccio and ruby red Carne Salada.
Lindy Wildsmith covers cultures and cooking from around the world both modern and ancient. Cured details Native American, Japanese, historic Roman and Greek, and current European practices and includes ceviche and crudo.
Nurturing flavour over days, weeks or even months is a unique and addictive way to prepare food, producing mouth-watering results every time. Home-produced delicacies taste even better for having been patiently prepared and eagerly anticipated – truly great Slow Food, deeply infused with fantastic flavour.
and what is more important....what you had to say about it...
Hi Lindy,
I had to email you to say thanks. I bought your book at Abergavenny Food Festival this year and the book seller very kindly got you to sign it for me. In it you wrote "don't be surprised if you get addicted" and blimey how right you were! I have just tried my very first Pancetta and I am over the moon. So much so I now want to do many more things. I will be giving friends and family a thick Christmas slice for them to cube (oh how much to I want a slicer now).
Anyway thanks again, great book.
Heidi
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Sunny Days & Easy Living by Lindy Wildsmith
Photography by Martin Brigdale - £10.99
Food always tastes better outside with The Barbecue often taking centre stage. Why not try the Aromatic Pork Burger in Pita Bread or Spiked Tiger Prawns with Lime and Chilli Marinade? Accompaniments include Mango, Kiwi and Coriander Salsa and Chilli Tomato Chutney as well as great salads and sides, such as Fennel and Orange Salad with Mint and Sesame Sweet Potato Packets. Families Outdoors features simple dishes for hungry hordes; try Pot Luck Summer Pasta; Caramelized Vegetable Tarte Tatin and end with a Fruit Platter with Spiced Caramel. For Picnics, why not share a Roast Pepper, Mozzarella and Italian Cured Meat Focaccia Pie? For a cold feast, take along dips and spreads or a salad such as Herbed Lentil Salad with Hard-boiled Eggs and Anchovies. Round off the meal with a slice of home-baked Pineapple and Thyme Loaf Cake. Enjoy Elegant Al Fresco dishes such as Fanned Steak with Rocket Crème Fraiche or a Blueberry Frangipane Tart. Finally, ideas for cooling Drinks include Sparkling Iced Mint Tea.
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Lindy's Books and what the papers say
STOP PRESS
CURED HAS BEEN SHORT-LISTED FOR THE GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS' FOOD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2011
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WAS SHORT-LISTED FOR THE ANDRE' SIMON AWARD 2011
Lindy Wildsmith has written many cookery books. Her specialist subjects are preserving and curing, English country and Italian regional food, fish and game.
"CURED" - SALTED, SPICED, DRIED, SMOKED, POTTED, PICKLED AND RAW This is an indispensable guide to traditional curing methods, a must for every modern kitchen.
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY:
Nigel Slater The Observer, Sunday 12 December 2010
Those who get a taste for curing salmon might like to take a look at Lindy Wildsmith's new book, Cured (Jacqui Small, £30). There is a beetroot gravadlax like the one below, which was a good starting point for my own cure, plus every possible recipe for the home curer, from a marinated spiced tuna loin to salted pork with lentils. A useful stocking filler for the more serious cook.
Food and Travel Magazine
"A gift for the chef who has everything, this book unveils the delights of curing your own food. An enjoyable read of charming anecdotes and descriptions of regional specialities, the recipes go well beyond the familiar Parma ham and gravlax - think oriental Jerky or pickled oysters"
Great British Food
"Curing, salting, smoking and sousing in-house is a hot trend amongst gastropubs, and this inspiring book encourages home cooks to get in on the action. Its master stroke is to show that great things can be achieved in the domestic kitchen, whether a simple cerviche or confit, or more elaborate stove-top smoke. Enticing stuff for cooks of all levels."
Restaurant magazine
"As we regress into our culinary pasts we cannot fail to come face to face with the curers crafts - is how food writer Lindy Wildsmith introduces Cured, her 280-page tome on self preservation. Indeed the book takes a look at some of the earliest cooking methods, but is more about contemporary cooking than a genuflect to the good ol'days.
Neatly divided into seven sections - salted, spiced and marinated, dried, smoked. potted, pickled and raw - Cured gives an overview of each technique before attacking a wide range of dishes, from the basics (salt beef, kippers, etc) to more technically challenging (Chinese smoked guinea fowl and crepinette au marrons)."
Cured: Slow Techniques for Flavouring Meat, Fish and Vegetables by Lindy Wildsmith
Jacqui Small, £30 (£24.00 at the Guardian bookshop)
• Cured feeds my fantasies of living a more leisured, laid-back life where I have time to do all sorts of creative things in the kitchen. A bible on preserving.
Fiona Becket - Best Christmas Gifts Guardian Dec. 2010
Two of her other books currently available are on eating and entertaining outdoors Sunny Days and Easy Living £10.99 and Eating Outdoors £16.99 both published by Rylands Peters and Small