How I Taught My Brother To Cook
Improvisational Tuscan-Provençal Cookery (and other good stuff to eat)
Welcome to our "improv" cooking network. We'll share our ideas about simple Italian, Tuscan, Provençal, and "American peasant" cuisines. Tell us your culinary heritage. It's a no-holds-barred but fun-filled forum. Enjoy our banter and food.
quick-links to other sections of this site
Recipes: Click over to our home page and view tons of improv recipes (and pics of them) that Pat and John have created at the last minute before dinner. Proves that it doesn't have to take a lot of time to make a great meal. Most of these can be made in a few minutes.
Recipe of the Week: Tuna Fish & Peas On Toast
Blog of the Week: I Remember Eating As A Kid...
Forum: Read, comment on, and create food discussion topics.
Videos: View tons of cooking lessons, watch interviews with John and Pat, and upload your own flicks. This week's video is Aunt Betty's Canned Beef
Photos: View, upload, and comment on members' photos. Lots of pics of great improv dishes and their descriptions.
Blogs: News, information, members' rants, etc. (who can tell the difference between a "Forum" and a "Blog". Let us know.
Members: View all of our members' photos and visit their pages.
Recipe of the Week: Tuna Fish & Peas On Toast
Blog of the Week: I Remember Eating As A Kid...
Forum: Read, comment on, and create food discussion topics.
Videos: View tons of cooking lessons, watch interviews with John and Pat, and upload your own flicks. This week's video is Aunt Betty's Canned Beef
Photos: View, upload, and comment on members' photos. Lots of pics of great improv dishes and their descriptions.
Blogs: News, information, members' rants, etc. (who can tell the difference between a "Forum" and a "Blog". Let us know.
Members: View all of our members' photos and visit their pages.
buy john and patrick's cookbook "how i taught my brother to cook" now!
Our cookbook "How I Taught My Brother To Cook" is in stock and ready to ship! Order direct from our website: This is the quickest way to get your copy. Just a couple of clicks and we get your order electronically and ship it within 24 hours of receiving it, via USPS media mail. If you live West of the Mississippi, we ship from Portland - if East, from Connecticut.
If you've already got your copy, write a review in the Forum, and read reviews by other readers.
Our book can also currently be purchased at:
A&S Italian Fine Foods
2079 Black Rock Turnpike.
Fairfield, CT 06825
Annie Bloom's Books (7834 SW Capitol Hwy., Portland, OR) the finest little bookstore in the great Pacific northwest.
The Kitchen Corner (2359 Black Rock Turnpike Fairfield, CT).
Kona Bay Books at 74-5487 Kaiwi St., Kona, Hawaii
E&R Wineshop. 6141 SW Macadam, Portland, OR
Inkwater Press
Amazon.com. Click on the JRBARROWS seller link for quickest delivery ... and email brothers@gnapoleone.com if you want your copy signed by the authors. This Amazon link is the only seller that offers signed copies!
We're also now carried by Barnes and Noble stores - just ask for it, if your local branch is out of stock.
If you've already got your copy, write a review in the Forum, and read reviews by other readers.
Our book can also currently be purchased at:
A&S Italian Fine Foods
2079 Black Rock Turnpike.
Fairfield, CT 06825
Annie Bloom's Books (7834 SW Capitol Hwy., Portland, OR) the finest little bookstore in the great Pacific northwest.
The Kitchen Corner (2359 Black Rock Turnpike Fairfield, CT).
Kona Bay Books at 74-5487 Kaiwi St., Kona, Hawaii
E&R Wineshop. 6141 SW Macadam, Portland, OR
Inkwater Press
Amazon.com. Click on the JRBARROWS seller link for quickest delivery ... and email brothers@gnapoleone.com if you want your copy signed by the authors. This Amazon link is the only seller that offers signed copies!
We're also now carried by Barnes and Noble stores - just ask for it, if your local branch is out of stock.
the week of June 30, 2008. Recipe Of The Week: Tuna Fish & Peas On Toast
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What's our damn book about?
Respect your food. Play with it too
How many recipes do you have on your kitchen shelf, if you add up all your cookbooks? Ten thousand? Probably more! You like to cook, but searching for a recipe that matches your mood and your pantry has become a chore. It’s time to leave rote instructions behind and unleash the confidence to improvise, and discover a style all your own.
Brothers Patrick and John Barrows want you to think more about your food, but not to stress over it. Taking cues from the peasant cuisines of the North of Italy and the South of France, their approach is fresh, simple and honest. Local in-season vegetables, the kind of meat that’s handed over the counter by an expert in an apron instead of shrink-wrapped, fresh eggs for hand-made pasta-- these home cooks show that the more you embrace a palette of basic high-quality ingredients, the more you and your family will enjoy what you’re putting in your mouths, and realize that convenience foods aren’t saving you time or money, and might be sapping your soul.
“How I Taught My Brother To Cook” is part family memoir, part cookbook and part raucous sibling rivalry. Most of all it’s a story of two men’s journey: to embrace their family roots in rural Italy and upstate New York, put good food on their family’s tables, and avoid the anxiety over diet fad and fashion that afflicts most Americans. Weaving a dialogue in recipes and techniques, the brothers take a “lowfalutin’” approach, though they rarely agree on whose approach is the more unpretentious. Bring your own opinion to the countertop conversation, and your memories of what your own grandparents and parents and favorite aunt fed you, and renew your joy in food.”
Buy It Now!
How many recipes do you have on your kitchen shelf, if you add up all your cookbooks? Ten thousand? Probably more! You like to cook, but searching for a recipe that matches your mood and your pantry has become a chore. It’s time to leave rote instructions behind and unleash the confidence to improvise, and discover a style all your own.
Brothers Patrick and John Barrows want you to think more about your food, but not to stress over it. Taking cues from the peasant cuisines of the North of Italy and the South of France, their approach is fresh, simple and honest. Local in-season vegetables, the kind of meat that’s handed over the counter by an expert in an apron instead of shrink-wrapped, fresh eggs for hand-made pasta-- these home cooks show that the more you embrace a palette of basic high-quality ingredients, the more you and your family will enjoy what you’re putting in your mouths, and realize that convenience foods aren’t saving you time or money, and might be sapping your soul.
“How I Taught My Brother To Cook” is part family memoir, part cookbook and part raucous sibling rivalry. Most of all it’s a story of two men’s journey: to embrace their family roots in rural Italy and upstate New York, put good food on their family’s tables, and avoid the anxiety over diet fad and fashion that afflicts most Americans. Weaving a dialogue in recipes and techniques, the brothers take a “lowfalutin’” approach, though they rarely agree on whose approach is the more unpretentious. Bring your own opinion to the countertop conversation, and your memories of what your own grandparents and parents and favorite aunt fed you, and renew your joy in food.”
Buy It Now!
Links
Visit our main website at gnapoleone.com
Take a look at:Cuisine et Tradition School of Provençale Cuisine
an intimate cooking school and B&B in Provence run by Madeleine and Erick Vedel.
Visit Food Dude's Portland Food and Drink blog
Check out Giuliano Bugialli's site for his upcoming schedule of appearances and classes
Take a look at:Cuisine et Tradition School of Provençale Cuisine
an intimate cooking school and B&B in Provence run by Madeleine and Erick Vedel.
Visit Food Dude's Portland Food and Drink blog
Check out Giuliano Bugialli's site for his upcoming schedule of appearances and classes
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