Famous Dishes from Around the World / Platos famosos de todo el mundo
Healthy, Tasty and Affordable / saludables, sabrosos y económicos
by Stephanie Maze
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Pub Date May 13 2019 | Archive Date Aug 23 2019
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ebook 978097276930
Advance Praise
Kirkus Reviews
Take a tour of international flavors through 30 ethnic recipes in this engaging, educational cookbook in English and Spanish. From British shepherd’s pie to Chinese kung pao to Israeli cabbage rolls, each recipe delves into its corresponding culinary tradition. Cooking tips and tricks kick off the book: If you ever wondered what to use to thicken sauces (cornstarch), how to clean a cast-iron pan (water, oil, and salt instead of soap), or how to prevent bamboo skewers from burning (soak them overnight in cold water), you’ll find answers here. The introduction emphasizes the emotional and nostalgic ties people feel to the food of their homelands and ways the United States, a country rich with immigrants, benefits from the abundance of culinary options. Breaking bread, the book states, is a timeless unifier: “In an age of zillions of impersonal gadgets, a shared meal may be one of the last bastions of true interpersonal connectivity and communication in our county and across the world.” While inspired by the traditional dishes of their countries of origin, some recipes have swapped red meat and pork for healthier proteins like chicken and turkey, and in some cases, the recipes have gone vegetarian. Further healthy hints, like substituting sweet potatoes for white potatoes or using ghee instead of butter, are offered at the end of the book. All dishes in the cookbook cost less than $18 to prepare, and each recipe includes nutritional facts. The brightly colored pages feature whimsical fonts and enticing food photography. Readers won’t just learn how to cook these dishes, they’ll learn about the historical and cultural origins of them; e.g., New Orleans’ staple jambalaya was born out of Spanish paella and a dish common among French Cajun settlers in the Louisiana bayou. A vibrant culinary take on the American melting pot via an international array of recipes and flavors.
US Review
"At home or abroad, if there is anything that can bring people together in any society, it’s a tasty meal shared with loved ones, friends, colleagues or even adversaries."
Composed in both English and Spanish, this offering by Moonstone Press holds out the prospect of creating multicultural, multinational cuisine in any home, anywhere. The creators of this vibrant collection have spared no efforts to make their new project a feast for the eyes as well as for the stomach, with brilliant color photographs on every page. They also offer detailed nutritional information based on daily values per six servings. Making these thirty delicious meals available in two languages gives readers of many backgrounds a chance to cook, serve, and happily consume them. In addition, the editors, artists, and translators have assembled two sections to augment the chef’s knowledge and enhance the preparation process. ‘Some Cooking Tips and Tricks’ & ‘Healthy Hints for the Home Cook’. In total, this book invites readers to enjoy and share new cuisine in combination with multicultural understanding. RECOMMENDED by the US Review
Red City Reviews
Famous Dishes from Around the World by Moonstone Press is a hefty tome of thirty thoughtfully assembled recipes from countries scattered all across the globe, including Shepherd’s Pie from the United Kingdom, Fish Curry from India, and Borscht from Russia. The recipes are instantly recognizable, giving equal stage time to both familiar favorites (like American Chili) and crowd-pleasers alike. After all, what dinner guest wouldn’t instantly be won over by a well-prepared French Ratatouille, or a Spanish Paella? Each recipe is presented across a two-page spread, with full instructions in both English and Spanish; accompanying notes and pointers add further flavor on almost every page.
Cooking and sharing meals together in the twenty-first century is seldom an easy task. Between all of the competing claims on our time—not to mention our attention—it’s safe to assume that most dinners, even among family, are hurried affairs with little fanfare. What books like Famous Dishesseek to do is to pepper in a little more humanity to our meal-making. The recipes here are accessible, yet impressive; inexpensive, yet satisfying. The book’s editors recognize that life in the kitchen, and in the American home, has changed greatly since the majority of these dishes were first invented—and it will likely change again before too long. This is the sort of cookbook that places a greater emphasis on healthy living than on constantly trying to one up each other. Each recipe can be prepared at home for $18.00 or less, which is hopefully incentive enough to convince the average American family to dine in and spend a little more time getting to know the loved ones in our lives.
Midwest Book Review
Famous Dishes from Around the World/ Platos famosos de todo el mundo is a bilingual cookbook presented in English and Spanish for lovers of good ethnic foods who may still be unfamiliar with their ingredients. The book provides an outstanding selection of top international dishes that are identified with a particular country, both with authentic recipes and variations thereof.
What sets this collection of recipes apart from that of other cookbooks is its focus on a single representative dish for each featured country. Familiar to many Americans, each of these iconic dishes is associated with a particular nation and is chosen with deliberate purpose: "Beyond emotions and memories, however, the dishes in this book represent something deeper: They are a collection of national and well-known culinary creations that have become intrinsically identified with a particular country because of their history. As such, they are a symbol of national pride and cultural identity with the country of origin, pride that is carried on from generation to generation."
Famous Dishes/ Platos Famosos includes recipes for Irish Stew, Israeli Cabbage Rolls, Mexican Fajitas, Swedish Meatballs, and Indian Fish Curry, among many others, with names that can be recognized by those who have sampled ethnic cuisine from around the world. The cookbook features a number of advantages: ingredients that can be shared across a variety of the featured dishes; dishes that are budgeted and won't break the bank; and recipes that are authentic or slightly tweaked to make them as healthy and accessible as possible. Readers of this cookbook can expect to find not only a satisfying diversity of iconic foods, but a variety of international dishes that are appealing, surprising, and easy to produce as well. One of the featured dishes - American chili - for example, includes turkey, dried cranberries, cinnamon, and a range of many other delicious ingredients.
Each dish is accompanied by a color photo, a historical information sidebar, and a box with the nutrition breakdown of each recipe.
With its emphasis on familiar-sounding comfort foods and hearty mainstays, Famous Dishes from Around the World, Platos famosos de todo el mundo is recommended over and above other introductory ethnic cookbooks because of its recognizable national dishes, its diversity, its attention to healthy ingredients, and the ease with which the recipes can be prepared in the kitchen.
Diane C. Donovan, Senior Reviewer
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Marketing Plan
The publisher is actively promoting this bilingual, English/Spanish cookbook, to the target audiences including cooks, chefs, culinary arts communities, kitchen stores, multicultural groups. With a national publicity and national book marketer on board, strong efforts are underway.
• Book Expo in New York Javitz Center – IPG Booth #1823 – Meet author Stephanie Maze during her signing Thurs. May 30.
• Aggressive early promotion to book industry has netted three early reviews in US Review, Kirkus Reviews, Midwest Book Review and Red City Reviews….with many more pending in the culinary world to hit closer to May pub date.
• Direct promotion nationally to bookstores and libraries with an additional focus on states/regions that have higher concentrations of Spanish speaking communities.
• Direct promotion to the culinary industry including Culinary Arts communities and more broadly, kitchen stores and other locations that carry cookbooks and multicultural books.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780972769723 |
| PRICE | $14.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 85 |
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Featured Reviews
January G, Reviewer
VERY NICE! I really, really, really enjoyed this book. I learned a lot. Great for the adventurous eater!
Denice L, Reviewer
A wonderful cookbook along with several stories of how the recipes were developed. I've become more adventurous as my cooking skills progress and have not reached the point where I can comfortably tackle several of these dishes. So far I've received 5 star reviews on the results. A good cookbook for adventurous cooks.
Kristin J, Reviewer
This is a cookbook giving people a nice introduction to various dishes from around the world and it has a great variety in terms of recipes, though I wish it had more African dishes. A redeeming aspect is that this cookbook is bi-lingual (English/Spanish), which makes it more accessible.
Cristi M, Reviewer
It might be evident from the sheer fact that I review a plethora of cookbooks on this blog that I absolutely love food and cooking. Something that I also really enjoy is trying foods from all over the world. The recipes included here are some of the more popular recipes from many different places including Greece, France, Spain, India, and many other places. Some of my favorite recipes that are included in the book are Fajitas, Vegetable Korma, Moussaka, Irish Stew, and Huevos Rancheros. Famous Dishes from Around the World is a great addition to any kitchen. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes trying new things or who is interested in food from different places.
Mariola S, Librarian
Wonderful book filled with Spanish / English recipes!
If you bilingual that will help you a lot, if not - you can learn additional language through cooking!
I have tried couple recipes from this book and they are wonderful!
Highly recommended!
Gaby F, Educator
Famous Dishes from Around the World is a wonderful book for a middle or high school library. It represents so much more than just a cookbook with recipes from around the globe. The book can be used in cooking and health classes, in foreign language classes, in geography classes and in all kind of multi-subject projects that have to do with cross-cultural studies. I especially like that the recipes are written in English and in Spanish and are all accompanied with background information, nutrition facts, and appetizing photographs. The ingredients used in the different recipes are easy to find and inexpensive, which is important if you work with a tight budget. Food unites people, and trying out foreign recipes is a good way to get to know foreign countries and to become interested in learning more. From my own experience with my kids I know that they simply loved cooking French and Spanish dishes with their French and Spanish teachers. They had not been to France or Spain, but the cooking experience in middle school sparked their interest and they kept pursuing their foreign languages throughout high school. I only wish there were two Chinese recipes in the book. The Kung Pao recipe from China contains peanuts, which might not be feasible to cook in a school for allergy reasons. Other than that I wholeheartedly recommend to add this book to your library.
Terry B, Reviewer
This is a bilingual Spanish/English cookbook, and it contains mouthwatering recipes from around the world! You will learn how to prepare British Shepherd’s Pie with ground turkey, potatoes, carrots, rosemary and thyme, Chinese Kung Pao with chicken, rice vinegar, scallions, ginger, and fresh garlic, and Colombian Sancocho with chicken breasts, corn on the cob, plantain and yuccas, with simple easy to follow directions. The French Ratatouille looks scrumptious, and it is made with eggplant, tomatoes, zucchinis, squash and marinara sauce, and you are instructed how to prepare the eggplant by “sweating”, roasting and sautéing them to bring out their full flavor! The German Sauerbraten looks tender and juicy as it has been marinated and gently simmered, and the potato dumplings are pureed and mixed with parsley. The Israeli Cabbage Rolls are fork tender and topped with a sweet marinara sauce. The Swedish Meatballs are made with ground turkey, cumin, heavy cream and mustard, and they can be assembled and cooked in 90 minutes!
The use of ground turkey in a lot of these recipes makes them healthier and less cholesterol-laden than using other types of meats.
You are also given healthy hints at the end of the book so that you may substitute healthy ingredients for high fat ones too!
Rose R, Reviewer
One of my favorite cookbooks to collect is international cookbooks. I love trying different recipes from different countries so was excited to check this one out.
This was a wonderful cookbook that I have to admit I went through in one sitting. It’s a bilingual cookbook written in English and Spanish. What I liked about it is that each recipe is included twice in the cookbook, once in Spanish and then again once in English both clearly printed on separate pages.
There are 30 recipes ranging from American Chili with Turkey to Uzbek Plov with Chicken. Each recipe is clear and concise without overcomplicated ingredients or directions. Most people if they have a well-stocked pantry would be able to make the majority of these recipes with ingredients on hand. The author has taken some liberties with the authenticity of a few of the recipes and has replaced red meat or pork with turkey, chicken or vegetables. I personally didn’t have an issue with that and actually liked the twist on the traditional.
Each recipe page has information on the origins of the recipe, a clear colorful picture of the finished dish, amount of servings and nutritional values. As I mentioned before, each recipe has clear directions and simple basic ingredients which I liked. Because I do collect and make International dishes the ones that I am familiar with in this book were similar to what I know and looked true and close to classic recipes. The recipes I was not familiar with were not overly complicated and the finished products looked delicious and tempting!
The book also has Cooking Tips and Tricks, Healthy Hints for the Home Cook, an Index that is alphabetized with Recipe Names and Main Ingredients along with which recipe you may find the ingredient in, and a handy Notes section near the end.
In conclusion, I have the majority of the recipes in this cookbook marked to try! It’s definitely a cookbook I look forward to using. I would recommend it if you’re looking for something new and different and like to explore different cuisines.
Kerrie H, Reviewer
This cookbook has an interesting format: each page is in Spanish, followed by the same page in English. Each recipe is accompanied by a photo, nutritional information and a brief culinary history of the dish. I am looking forward to delving in and trying out a few more of the recipes.
Marie-Hélène F, Reviewer
This recipe book is quite extraordinary: first and foremost it is bilignual (Spaniqh / English), secondly the pictures are amazingly beautiful, thirdly the chosen recipes are very-well selected and simple to make. In short, the perfect recipe book! Thank you so much Net Gallet & Stephanie Maze for this lovely collection of recipes!
Bridgett D, Reviewer
This book had some really nice looking dishes included in the recipes. I can't wait to go to the store and get what I need to start making some of these with my kids.
Bridgett O, Reviewer
What a great cookbook! The material is well written and presented in an easy to follow manner. I look forward to trying out several of these recipes.
Anita W, Reviewer
This book is beautifully laid out, with masses of colour and photos of each dish. The recipes are presented in both English and Spanish which I enjoyed as I’m trying to improve my Spanish vocabulary. There’s a double page spread for each recipe, one completely in English, the other n Spanish.
The recipes are varied and reflect cuisine from many different areas. Fish curry, satay, lasagne with turkey, Irish stew, Quiche Lorraine, Mexican corn and chicken. The ingredients and method are easy to follow, with most recipes using easy to source ingredients. Every recipe has a little information box with a bit of background pad to the dish which I found interesting.
I have the ebook which looks great on a tablet. I imagine the hard copy is quite impressive. Suitable for cooks of any ability as there’s nothing too complicated. My thanks to the publisher for a review copy via Netgalley.
Sally W, Reviewer
I like to have variety in my cooking. I also like to try different recipes from all cultures. This book which is written both in English and Spanish did not disappoint. With colorful, appetizing photos and easy to read recipes it is packed with recipes to try. From British Shepards Pie, Colombian Sancocho, French Ratatouille, Indian Fish Curry, Israeli Cabbage Rolls, Mexican Fajitas, Polish Lentil Stew, Spanish Tortilla, to Swedish Meatballs. There is something for every taste and palette. Each recipes has information of the origin of the recipe, nutritional facts, ingredients, and instructions.
Kristina S, Reviewer
I enjoy discovering new dishes and experimenting with international cuisine so this cookbook was a natural fit for me. The dishes in this book do not disappoint. So far, I've tried the Indian Vegetable Korma, the Israeli Cabbage Rolls, and the Kung Pao Chicken (sort of).
I'm vegetarian, so I had to make a few adjustments. The Korma was vegetarian from the start and, unlike many vegetarian dishes (which seem to be afterthoughts in most cookbooks) this one turned out to be extremely flavorful. Winner! To make the Kung Pao Chicken work for me, I substituted extra-firm tofu for the chicken. I treated the tofu exactly as the direction treated the chicken with very tasty results. I swapped out lentils for the ground turkey in the Israeli Cabbage Rolls and, again, the flavors were terrific. Another family favorite. On request, I'm making another batch of cabbage rolls tonight. If I can get my carnivore to stop asking for repeats from this cookbook, I'll try more of the recipes. ;-)
There are beautiful pictures throughout and English instructions on one page and Spanish instructions on the facing one. Each recipe includes nutritional information and the introduction indicates that some recipes have been adjusted from their cultural origins in order to incorporate heather options like lean meats and vegetables. I also enjoyed the interesting historical and cultural fact boxes included with each dish. So much fun!
This is a keeper, for sure, and I'm looking forward to exploring many of the other recipes!
<i>Thank you to NetGalley and Moonstone Press for providing me with a free electronic copy in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own. </i>
Reviewer 585617
Love that the book is bilingual.Lots of recipes from all over the world.Easy to follow with precise instructions and readily available ingredients.
Abi M, Reviewer
A wonderfully diverse range of recipes with some amazing flavours. It was very interesting learning about the various cuisines from all around the world and I'm looking forward to trying some of the tasty dishes in this book!
Alison S, Reviewer
A very clever concept - selecting best known international dishes in America into one book. It is appealing to have your favourites in one book instead of hunting through various specific national cuisine collections for only one recipe that you'll make.
The fact that it is bilingual - Spanish and English - makes is appeal to a broader segment of the especially American population.
The recipes themselves are well laid out with beautiful, colour photographs of the finished dish, a clear list of all ingredients required and a detailed, step by step method that even an inexperienced home chef can follow.
The extras, like "Some Cooking Tips and Tricks"; the history and background to each recipe as well as nutrition information are very handy to have.
I like that the index is classed by main ingredients too. The "Notes" section right at the back is a great addition for you to jot down variations or adaptations to each recipe.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for allowing me to read this book.
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