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MY BOOK BEGINNING
On a clear September afternoon, I mingled with a crowd dressed in skirts and khakis in an open pasture beneath snow-rimmed mountains.
-- Pure Beef: An Essential Guide to Artisan Meat with Recipes for Every Cut by Lynne Curry, from the Introduction: How a Former Vegetarian Came to Write a Beef Cookbook and Why it Had to be Written.
Pure Beef is my new favorite cookbook. I have a freezer full of grassfed beef and need some pointers for how to cook it right. Curry explains everything from the cuts, to how to thaw it, to how to cook it and what to cook with it.
Lynne Curry also has a terrific blog, Stories that Feed You, that is chock-o-block full of all kinds of interesting recipes and information about many sorts of food.
Wow, I'm the first! :o
ReplyDeleteAnd I was confused by your book at the beginning, until you explain it was a book with recipes :D
Interesting beginning! Can picture it perfectly!
ReplyDeleteYes, I wasn't sure about it, either...lol
ReplyDeleteI like the scene that is set up. How interesting for a vegetarian to love to prepare beef recipes.
ReplyDeleteLove the snow capped mountain imagery!
ReplyDeleteI just read that a South Dakota beef company is suing ABC News over a story on "pink slime" in their beef, so this is very interesting timing.
ReplyDeleteWhat a poetic beginning to a cookbook! This sounds like it would be a helpful addition to my cookbook collection.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful scene the beginning creates. I would never have guessed this was a cookbook by reading the first line.
ReplyDeletesounds like a different kind of cookbook!
ReplyDeleteInteresting beginning, but not one for me. Unlike the author, I'm a former beef-eater who is now a vegetarian.
ReplyDeleteInteresting ... a vegetarian coming up with beef recipes? :) i'll need to look this up!
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