Lee Bailey fell in love with tomatoes more years ago than he cares to admit, and he's been writing about that love since his first book, Country Weekends. Now Lee's gone and put together a collection of his favorite recipes for his best-loved food. First, let's admit that there's nothing better than a ripe red tomato right off the vine. Then let's join Lee in the kitchen to make everything from aspic to ratatouille to vinaigrette with stops along the way for bread pudding and piperade pie and tomato souffle. Lee even shares ideas for getting double duty out of your tomatoes -- one day they're a centerpiece, the next, a salad. Lee Bailey's Tomatoes -- it's as fresh, appealing, and real as the vine-ripened article.
This is a short, compact cookbook specializing in tomato recipes. It is beautfifully illustrated with some of the finest food photography I've ever seen. The recipes are uniformly straight-forward, requiring only basic ingredients and fairly standard equipment. The modestly competent home cook will have no difficulty with most of the recipes here. If you've ever stared at your tomato patch wondering what the heck to do with all those tomatoes, this is the book for you. I've made almost every recipe herein and loved almost every one. But the tomato spoonbread is my favorite. Its almost worth the price of the book just for that recipe.
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