Synopses & Reviews
Good cooks have always known that when you have an egg, you can make a perfect meal at a moment's notice. Now nutritionists are confirming what our mothers told us: the egg is good food. In this landmark collection, Marie Simmons, an award-winning cookbook author whose deftly irresistible flavor combinations have inspired millions, celebrates the versatile egg with more than 250 recipes.
This is the most comprehensive book on egg cookery ever published, and it's a dazzlingly diverse collection. It encompasses sophisticated dinners -- Gnocchi with Butter and Herbs, for instance -- as well as such superb desserts as Fallen Chocolate Souffland#233; Cake. And it's filled with tips and techniques for the basics: how to scramble, fry, bake, poach and hard-cook eggs. In these pages can be found convenient appetizers, comforting soups, flavorful sandwiches, innovative salads, sauces, souffland#233;s, cookies, cakes, pies and tarts.
Simmons provides us with literally hundreds of dinner possibilities, many of them vegetarian. She reinterprets such classics as quiches, adding broccoli and provolone or caramelized tomato and corn, and rediscovers dishes from the past, including the savory bread puddings called strata. She takes pasta far beyond red sauce with renditions that include eggs, fresh vegetables and herbs, and she serves up exciting main-dish salads for warm weather and, for wintry months, hearty Greek lamb stew with artichokes, thickened with egg-lemon sauce.
And yes, there are scores of recipes for breakfast and brunches, ranging from Eggs Scrambled with Wild Mushrooms and Fresh Herbs to Eggs Baked in Fresh Tomato Salsa with Melted Cheese, not to mention French toast, Popover Pancakes, and more than thirty different omelettes and frittatas -- meals for any occasion.
For dessert, choose between seductively light selections such as Hazelnut Meringue Cookies and Lemon Angel Food and rich creations like Classic Crcme Caramel, Lemon Curd Tart with Berries, and Spiced Sponge Roll with Maple Cream Filling and Walnut Praline.
With egg information and intriguing snippets of lore throughout, THE GOOD EGG is the ultimate cookbook for a new generation of cooks.
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"The Good Egg is a valuable classic and a sheer pleasure--a treasure trove of classic recipes and wonderful stories and the most thorough and complete egg cookery book I have ever seen. Chefs and professional cooks will value it as a reference work, and it is also exellent for beginning cooks: easy to follow, with clear directions for all the egg basics, and fresh and surprising ingredient combinations, as well as do-ahead dishes that fit perfectly into our busy lifestyles. The Good Egg is just plain fun to read."
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"...appealing, clearly written and unintimidating. Along with classic egg dishes...she offers fresh new ideas to try..." --Susan Puckett
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"Marie Simmons has done an admirable job of saving the good egg from its unfortuante drift toward near obscurity. It you've put off eating eggs long enough to forget how to enjoy them, or have never gotten around to learning about the quickest and most perfect of foods, you will be happily reminded with this praiseworthy collection of dishes."
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"Marie Simmons has written an authoritative book that is also easily accessible. She rescues the elegant egg from undeserved obliquity."
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--Barbara Kafka, author of Roasting: A Simple Art and Soup: A Way of Life
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"...appealing, clearly written and unintimidating. Along with classic egg dishes...she offers fresh new ideas to try..." --Susan Puckett
Atlanta Journal Constitution
"I've admired and used Simmons' previous books...and this new addition only eggs-tends my admiration." --Sybil Pratt Bookpage
"Marie Simmons has done an admirable job of saving the good egg from its unfortuante drift toward near obscurity. It you've put off eating eggs long enough to forget how to enjoy them, or have never gotten around to learning about the quickest and most perfect of foods, you will be happily reminded with this praiseworthy collection of dishes." --Deborah Madison, author of Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone and The Savory Way
"Marie Simmons has written an authoritative book that is also easily accessible. She rescues the elegant egg from undeserved obliquity." --Barbara Kafka, author of Roasting: A Simple Art and Soup: A Way of Life
"The Good Egg is a valuable classic and a sheer pleasure--a treasure trove of classic recipes and wonderful stories and the most thorough and complete egg cookery book I have ever seen. Chefs and professional cooks will value it as a reference work, and it is also exellent for beginning cooks: easy to follow, with clear directions for all the egg basics, and fresh and surprising ingredient combinations, as well as do-ahead dishes that fit perfectly into our busy lifestyles. The Good Egg is just plain fun to read." --Shirley Corriher, author of Cookwise
Synopsis
Now in paperback for the first time, the only comprehensive book on egg cookery, winner of a James Beard Award.
Beginning with basics, such as how to make perfect scrambled eggs, and continuing on to sandwiches, soups, pastas, quiches, soufflés, and delectable meringues and cakes, The Good Egg artfully describes the many uses of one of cookings most essential and healthful ingredients.
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The James Beard Award-winning guide to cooking with one of the most feared and revered ingredients in the kitchen.
In the words of celebrated food writer M.F.K. Fisher, "eggs have been massacred for as long as people knew about pots and pans.” Marie Simmons helps frustrated home cooks warm up to this remarkable ingredient and master it in The Good Egg. Beginning with the basics, such as how to make perfect scrambled eggs, and continuing on to sandwiches, soups, pastas, quiches, soufflés, and delectable meringues and cakes, this indispensable cookbook restores eggs to their golden glory with more than 200 recipes that illustrate how versatile and delicious eggs can be.
About the Author
The winner of a Julia Child Award and two James Beard Awards, MARIE SIMMONS is a cooking teacher and the author of more than a dozen cookbooks, including Sur La Table's Things Cooks Love, Fresh & Fast, The Good Egg, and 365 Ways to Cook Pasta. She was a columnist for Bon Appétit for eighteen years.