Title:
- Bull Cook and Authentic Historical Recipes and Practices
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Reviews:
| Review | Author |
|---|---|
| George Herter - Bull Cook and Authentic Historical Recipes & Practices - 8 | Darb |
Editions:
| # | Date | Publisher | Binding | Cover |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1960-00-00 | Ecco Press |  |
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- Blurb:
- Amazon reader remarks: "The Cliff Claven of Cuisine", by "a foodie" Remember Cliff, the postman in "Cheers"? You know, the John Ratzenberger character who was the know-it-all barfly who, even if he DID know something about a subject, managed to mangle it into unwittingly hilarious non-sequiturs? Cross that character with an travel & food writer of great enthusiasm and woefully limited skills, and you might end up with something like this. Part cookbook, part very dubious history, part polemic and 100% personal. It is refreshingly blunt and opinionated, even if his opinions are howlingly off base sometimes. Look at it this way, to use another TV analogy: which would be more interesting, a beer with Archie Bunker or a sherry with Felix Unger? This book is definitely not the latter. I gotta confess I have a soft spot for Herter. I was born in 1951, and during my formative preadolescent years one of the finest pieces of literature I consumed ravenously was the Herter"s sporting goods catalog. GL Herter wrote the same purple prose and with the same hyperbolic certitude whether the subject was Oysters Rockefeller or fly-tying supplies or worm bedding. Nothing was ever simple: it was always "World Famous Herter"s Snelled Hooks" or whatever. Even as a kid I recognized this as over the top, before I even knew what "over the top" meant. Highly recommended. A terrifically crazy read. Where is the justice in a world which lets this go out of print while Danielle Steele continues to cause thousands of trees to be killed???