Steeped or Moms Secret Recipe File

Steeped: In the World of Tea

Author: Sharon Bard

Spanning the globe from Russia to Japan, from Kenya to Palestine, from Germany to Sumatra, Steeped is a literary anthology about the world's most popular drink. This full-color, beautifully illustrated collection celebrates the ancient traditions of tea and their place in the modern world. Here are recipes for Moroccan mint tea, the perfect Indian chai, and Chinese fertility tea. And just as conversation and stories go naturally with a cup of tea, here are stories that take you around the world: to Japan during the Korean War, to a tea picnic in the Himalayas, to a Sumatran jungle where POWs drink English tea over chess, to an American kitchen where a Palestinian makes mint tea.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	9
	Monkey-Picked Oolong	11
	Dr. Fu's Tea	13
	A Geography of Tea	19
	Extra Malty Assam	29
	Picnic Tea on Flag Hill	31
	Making Tea	36
	The Wine of the Poor	39
	Kenya, Marinya Estate	49
	Chai	51
	Streaming Green Tea	63
	Peppermint Tea: A Cultural Inheritance	77
	Strong Brew	87
	When Mom Was a Hippie	99
	Closed Eyes Smiling	107
	Passage	119
	C'est bon, ca	129
	Moroccan Mint Tea	135
	Sumatran Moonlight	139
	Lapsang Souchong	155
	Tell Me Something Good	157
	Tea Cups and Christmas Angels	167
	Making a Cup of Green Tea, I Stop the War	175
	Ti Kuan Yin	179
	About the Writers	181

See also: L'Expansion de la Chine dans l'Hémisphère de L'Ouest :les Implications pour l'Amérique latine et les États-Unis

Mom's Secret Recipe File: More than 125 Treasured Recipes from the Mothers of Our Greatest Chefs

Author: Christopher Styler

Mom's Secret Recipe File is a veritable Who's Who of American cooking!

Finally, a book that reveals our top celebrity chefs' most secret recipes -- the ones their moms taught them.

Who inspired Jamie Oliver to put a premium on fresh, "naked" food? Who influenced Sylvia Woods' talent for titillating the sweet tooth? It just might have something to do with their mothers. Now, in this one-of-a-kind cookbook, America's top celebrity chefs divulge the cooking secrets that started it all. Mom's Secret Recipe File features endearing stories, approachable recipes, family cooking lore, valuable tips, and timeless advice from each chef/mother pair. The duos are featured in "mini chapters" that begin with short introductions written by the chefs -- a favorite memory about how their moms' cooking styles inspired their own -- followed by four recipes from their moms' secret files.

Mom's Secret Recipe File is not only a perfect Mother's Day gift, it's sure to become a cooking classic.

Other chefs who share their mothers' recipes include:

--Jamie Oliver
--Nigella Lawson
--Sara Moulton
--Lidia Bastianich
--Daniel Boulud
--Art Smith
--Chris Styler
--Sylvia Woods
--Jacques Pepin
--Rose L Beranbaum
--Barbara Kafka
--Nick Malgieri
--Joan Nathan
--Ming Tsai
--Martin Yan
--Mollie Katzen
--Tom Colicchio
--Jim Perdue
--Jasper White
--Anthony Bourdain
--Rocco DiSpirito

A portion of the proceeds of Mom's Secret Recipe File will go to the Women's Commision for Refugee Women and Children, which since 1989 has worked to improve the lives and defend the rights of refugee and internally displaced women, children, and adolescents.

Editor Chris Styler is an experienced chef, restaurant consultant, recipe developer, culinary producer, and cookbook author. He was the chef of Metro C.C. in Manhattan and Blue Collar Food, a successful catering company. He is a contributing editor to Food Arts. In the last three years, he has been the Culinary Producer for several award-winning PBS television series including Julia and Jacques: Cooking at Home and Lidia's Italian-American Kitchen. His most recent cookbook, Smokin': Getting the Most from Your Stovetop Smoker. He lives in South Orange, New Jersey.

Publishers Weekly

This Mother's Day book is a marketing coup: what chef doesn't have a mother or grandmother who inspired him or her as a child? And who wouldn't want to hear those stories? That said, this collection transcends its own gimmickry. The chefs' anecdotes are truly engaging, telling of wise and clever female relations ("mother" is loosely defined) who fling wide the doors of their kitchens for their charges like fairy godmothers. These are simple recipes, for the most part-true comfort foods, as remembered by a chef's inner child. (The one predictable exception is Jeremiah Tower, whose idea of a user-friendly recipe is idiosyncratic: "Put a whole small and trimmed codfish that has been boned through the back la Colbert into the pan.") Most of the recipes-especially Jasper White's Shrimp with Thyme Butter, Sylvia Woods's Biscuits, and Anthony Bourdain's Baked Macaroni-are can't-miss formulas. If there's a prevailing theme, it's belly-filling foods with big flavors, like Grandma Sarah's Lamb and Prune Stew from Rose Levy Beranbaum, or Rocco DiSpirito's Pasta for Breath Only a Mother Could Love. Styler presents the recipes one chef at a time, but a helpful index lists the recipes by course, which is more practical for a browsing cook. The best guarantee that this restaurateur's cookbook will actually be usable at home may be summed up in Joan Nathan's kind advice on making jelly roll cookies: "If you only have only 1 baking sheet, roll, fill, and bake the cookies in 2 batches." Agent, Kim Yorio. (Apr. 14) Forecast: With national publicity with some of the contributors, print ads, and online marketing and publicity on cooking Web sites, this book has a good shot at being one of this year's top Mother's Day sellers. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

Like Michael Rosen's Cooking from the Heart, this book focuses on the connections between food and family but emphasizes the matriarchal side. (Rosen's book benefited Share Our Strength, the national antihunger agency, and Styler's will help the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children.) A food writer who has worked as a chef and a caterer, Styler introduces the contributors, who include Jacques Pepin, Rocco DiSpirito, and Jamie Oliver (the "Naked Chef"), and then they provide reminiscences and reflections about the influence their mothers-grandmothers appear often as well-have had on their love of food and their chosen careers. The recipes themselves, from Shrimp with Thyme Butter (via Jasper White's mother) to Swedish Roast Chicken (Marcus Samuelsson's grandmother), make for an eclectic mix. For most collections. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.