Raw - Charlie Trotter
If you think "raw food" means carrots and alfalfa sprouts,Rawwill astound you with its
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elegance and inventiveness. It's a combination no-cook book featuring gourmet recipes using raw and dehydrated vegetables, and a gorgeous, eye-popping, food photography book.The large, glossy book is beautifully designed, with well-arranged recipes, presentation notes, eloquent language and full-page, bigger-than-life photographs of exquisitely arranged food. Each recipe is introduced by an enticing description, e.g., "...the juxtapositions of the crunchy peppercorn pieces and the creamy cheese [made from cashews], the crispy smoked almonds and the chewy dried apricots, the erotic gooeyness of the honeycomb mounds and the elegant crispiness of the thyme spouts..." This is for special meals, not everyday--the recipes are not quick to prepare, and many include references to other recipes.Authors Charlie Trotter and Roxanne Klein are master chefs at two internationally acclaimed gourmet vegetarian raw-food restaurants--Charlie Trotter's in Chicago and Roxanne's in California. Photographer Tim Turner turns food photography into contemporary art. Wine notes by Jason Smith give the final touch of elegance. Highly recommended for the adventurous, gourmet willing to go the next step in vegetarian fine dining and anyone--cook or not--who appreciates food photography.--Joan Price, Amazon.com
...Tilly Trotter Widowed concludes the Tilly Trotter Trilogy.
Tilly has suffered great hardship since she was a young girl of
sixteen, first a mistress, then a frontiers wife, now a widow.
Trying to raise two children, she returns to the Manor from where she
started as a nurses maid. Only this time she returns a very rich
woman and the hardship of times gone by are left behind. Tilly, still
has enemies and they have to be dealt with before her life can
go on.
This book, as well as the first two are brillent. Catherine Cookson
was a wonderful writer and kept you glued to the story right to
the end, making all her books worth reading over and over again....
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Advantages: Brillent story line Disadvantages: None
...Tilly Trotter Wed is the second book in the Catherine Cookson saga.
The story of a sixteen year old fighting to survive in a cruel world.
Mistress of Highfield Manor for twelve years, she thought she had found love and happiness until the master dies. leaving Tilly with
no legal claim to his estates.
Just as life had settled down, Tilly is to endure more hardship, left
pregnant she is driven from the only real home she has ever known.
People called her a witch throughout her young life. How much more
could she take?
This book is filled with excitement and a must for romantic story
lovers....
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Advantages: Best Catherine Cookson novel -ever! Disadvantages: none
...I'm a huge fan of Catherine Cookson and recently read Tilly Trotter.
I was engrosed in this novel and genuinely coudn't put it down! The story is excellent and I was enchanted! An amazing story!
The great thing is that there follows two more novels: Catherine Cookson Married and Catherine Cookson Widowed - you think the titles gives the stories away, but that's not quite true!
I enjoyed "Tilly Trotter" so much, I doubted the follow "Tilly Trotter Married" could live up to the original, but I was not disappointed - even the sequel "Widowed" was equally addictive.
Once you've read the book don't forget to watch the film. It's around three hours long but unlike most adapted films, the producers did not edit half the story out! The film was exactualy how I imagined the characters and scenes to be like - that makes catherine cookson...
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