Author : Klaus Mitterhauser
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ISBN 13 : 9781594080784
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (87 download)
Book Synopsis Culinary Escapades from Around the World by : Klaus Mitterhauser
Download or read book Culinary Escapades from Around the World written by Klaus Mitterhauser and published by . This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated memoir expose reaches deep into the well of gastronomy with satirical and informative stories. From Austrian slave shop kitchens to gold and silver medals at the Culinary Olympics in Germany and the $ 5000 prize at the Pineapple Cooking Competition in Honolulu, to back stage horrors as a restaurateur, to sculpturing and cooking on stage and in global kitchens from Vienna to Stockholm, ocean liners, Rio de Janeiro, and the U.S. The yarn winds around continents but each anecdote is woven about a specific subject theme and characters with punch line dialogues, foreign phrases and patois in German, French, Portuguese and Swedish. Although all events are chronologically and geographically far apart, relevant historical backgrounds about Wienerschnitzel or truffles, for example, keep the reader curious from one episode to the next. All characters are actual life encounters and reappear on different stages in the narrative. Some romance and spicy erotic passages are interwoven around various ethnic cuisines during the author's involvement with "La Femme Fatale." The prose is compelling in an epicurean style alternating with brief travelogues but also with many practical pointers for the hobby chef. A few battle-hardened recipes relevant to the anecdote emphasize technique and taste, however it is not a cookbook in traditional format. On one current issue," sugar" afflicting millions of Americans, the author turns crusader against an undercover enemy. All illustrations are from the author's documentary collection from ornamental chocolate drawings to tallow sculptures. There are significant pictorial landscape narratives, perhaps reminiscent of Mark Twain. All stories evolvearound the writer's career as a chef, culinary lecturer, competitor and restaurant owner and artist. Often hilarious, seductive and delicious but also dramatic at times and humorous, it is the biographer's attempt to observe the stage of events with the impartial eye of a global citizen.