[Sca-cooks] Cooking with Fire was Marcoux's website

[Johnna Holloway]

Bit more about book

Cooking with fire. "Cooking with live fire goes way beyond the barbecue grill. This book helps you discover the pleasures of a variety of unconventional techniques, from roasting pork on a spit to baking bread in ashes, searing fish on a griddle, smoking turkey, making soup in a cast-iron pot, and baking pizza in a wood-fired oven, cooking bacon on a stick,  and much, much more. includes 100 recipes for everything from roasted rabbit to fish chowder and baguettes.."
Chapter titles are: A fire and a stick --; A few simple tools --; Pots and pans --;
More gear --; Retained heat.
plus "Resources, References, and Details pp.  305-310 
which goes into sources for equipment.
320 pages.  Softcover $19.95 Full-color; Photographs throughout

PW wrote in their review
"Marcoux, the food editor of Edible South Shore magazine, is an expert in the fields of food history and archaeology. Her dual interests meld nicely in this collection, which is as much about creating sources of heat as it is concocting recipes. For those who revel in primitive forms of cookery, there are plenty of adventures to explore, from the simple to the complex. … And there are well-photographed instructions on not only how to bake naan bread, but also on how to create a Neolithic-era oven that does the baking. … . while trying the more time consuming projects such as bean-hole beans, which requires digging a hole, tending a fire within the hole for six hours to create a suitable layer of coals, then burying a pot of beans in the hole to cook for at least half a day. (May)"

http://www.motherearthnews.com/real-food/cooking-with-fire-zbpz1405zstp.aspx#axzz34LfgJ9Xf
http://www.mprnews.org/story/2014/06/04/appetites-cooking-with-fire

Not so sure how durable the softcover is going to be, but it's an interesting volume.


Johnnae

On Jun 10, 2014, at 3:21 PM, Donna Green <donnaegreen at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> Readers here might like Paula Marcoux' website here. She's
> associated with Plimoth Plantation and builds wood fired
> ovens. Her new book is Cooking with Fire.
> http://www.themagnificentleaven.com/The_Magnificent_Leaven/Welcome.html
> Review of the book here: 
> http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/food-dining/2014/05/20/fire-belly/yzFgi33vvXfZPFcs4wmaiK/story.html
> 
> Johnnae
> 
> The book is "Cooking with Fire: From Roasting on a Spit to Baking in a Tannur, Rediscovered Techniques and Recipes That Capture the Flavors of Wood-Fired Cooking" and that's the reading I'm going to next Wednesday at Omnivore Books.
> 
> Juana Isabella
> West