Below is the book review which appears on the front flap of our book.
Respect your food. Play with it too
How many recipes do you have on your kitchen shelf, if you add up all your
cookbooks? Ten thousand? Probably more! You like to cook, but searching for
a recipe that matches your mood and your pantry has become a chore. It’s
time to leave rote instructions behind and unleash the confidence to
improvise, and discover a style all your own.
Brothers Patrick and John Barrows want you to think more about your food,
but not to stress over it. Taking cues from the peasant cuisines of the
North of Italy and the South of France, their approach is fresh, simple and
honest. Local in-season vegetables, the kind of meat that’s handed over the
counter by an expert in an apron instead of shrink-wrapped, fresh eggs for
hand-made pasta-- these home cooks show that the more you embrace a palette
of basic high-quality ingredients, the more you and your family will enjoy
what you’re putting in your mouths, and realize that convenience foods
aren’t saving you time or money, and might be sapping your soul.
“How I Taught My Brother To Cook” is part family memoir, part cookbook and
part raucous sibling rivalry. Most of all it’s a story of two men’s journey:
to embrace their family roots in rural Italy and upstate New York, put good
food on their family’s tables, and avoid the anxiety over diet fad and
fashion that afflicts most Americans. Weaving a dialogue in recipes and
techniques, the brothers take a “lowfalutin’” approach, though they rarely
agree on whose approach is the more unpretentious. Bring your own opinion to
the countertop conversation, and your memories of what your own grandparents
and parents and favorite aunt fed you, and renew your joy in food.”
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