Heirloom Cooking With the Brass Sisters: Recipes You Remember and Love

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Authors of Heirloom Baking and James Beard Award finalists Marilynn and Sheila Brass launched a whole new cookbook category with their "heirloom" baking recipes. Now they turn their culinary skills to the rest of the menu, presenting delicious, savory, and timeless heirloom dishes collected over decades and updated for the modern kitchen.

Marilynn and Sheila Brass have spent a lifetime collecting handwritten "manuscript cookbooks" and "living recipes." Heirloom Cooking collects and skillfully updates 135 of the very best of these, which together represent nearly 100 years of the best-loved and most delicious dishes from all over North America. The oldest recipes date back to the late 1800s, and every decade and a wide variety of ethnicities are captured here.

The book is divided into sections including Starters; Salads; Vegetables; Breads; Main Dishes including Lamb, Beef, Veal, Pork, Fish, Chicken, and Turkey; Vegetarian; and—of course—Dessert. As they did in Heirloom Baking, the Brass sisters include the wonderful stories behind the recipes, and once again, lush photography is provided by Andy Ryan.

Customer Reviews ::

Turned this Average Cook into a Great One - Jana Greer - Los Angeles, CA
I am just an average cook and who wants to be an average cook forever. I've always wished I could go into the kitchen and whip up something mouthwatering good. Well, I've got a few cookbooks, mostly ones I've picked up at second hand stores and I have, on occasion, followed directions and cooked up something moderately good.

But this book has inspired me to do more. After reading the introduction about Heirloom cooking and how the Brass Sisters put together this book, I felt like I'd been touched by the Cooking Angel, like she'd dipped her magic wand of onto my shoulder and turned me into something special, because these women have inspired me.

I mean, you have to eat, after all, so you might as well enjoy it and not just the eating part, but the cooking part too. And part of enjoying the cooking part for me now is knowing where the recipe came from, it's roots so to speak. After reading what the Brass Sisters say about a recipe, I feel like I want to do my absolute best to do it justice. I guess that's what I'd been missing all along, the inspiration to do well in the kitchen. Now I know that meal making is an art in more ways that one and now I'm not an average cook anymore. Thank you Marilynn and Sheila.