Grand Dishes: Recipes and stories from grandmothers of the world

by Iska Lupton, Anastasia Miari

Overview

This is not a book about what it’s like to be old. It’s about what it’s like to have lived.

There is no food quite like a grandmother’s time-perfected dish. Inspired by their own grandmothers – and the love they shared through the food they served – Anastasia Miari and Iska Lupton embarked on a mission: from Corfu to Cuba, Moscow to New Orleans, and many more in between, they set out to capture cooking methods, regional recipes and timeless wisdom from grandmothers around the world.

The result is Grand Dishes, a journey across four years of cooking with the world’s grandmothers, a preservation not just of recipes but of the stories – told through the dishes – that have seasoned these grandmothers’ lives. Featured alongside are contributions from celebrated chefs and food writers, each with their own grandmother’s recipe to share.

Rich with the insight that age brings, elegant portraits, diverse recipes, and techniques unique to a region, a grandmother and her family, this is a book to pass down through generations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781800180000
Publisher:	Unbound
Publication date:	07/13/2021
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	377,145
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.40(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Anastasia Miari is a freelance writer whose work spans fashion magazine editorial and copy for fashion brands to travel features for a range of publications from the Telegraph to easyJet Traveller magazine. @Anastasia_Miari Iska Lupton works as a creative producer, creating multi-sensory food experiences across the globe and styling food for various brands and publications. @IskaLupton @GrandDishes

Table of Contents

Foreword Mina Holland 9

Origins 10

Making Grand Dishes 13

A Note on Recipes 15

Soups & Sides 17

Vegetables 71

Fish 105

Meat 155

Something Sweet 221

My Grandmothers' Recipes 280

Thank You 282

Granknowledgements 283

Dedications 284

A Note on the Authors 286

Unbound Supporters 287

Editorial Reviews

05/17/2021

In this delightful debut, a pair of British Gen Z’ers pay homage to grandmothers with dishes inspired by a generation whose culinary contributions reach far beyond their homes. In an ambitious effort to document the recipes of “grannies of all ages, backgrounds and ethnicities” the authors visited grandmothers in Cuba, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Russia, the U.K., and the U.S. Along the way, they encountered “grannies wearing pink wigs chainsaw demonstrations,” and splashed in lakes and stoked fires outdoors with their subjects—each sharing her own stories of food and family. On one visit, an 87-year-old Cuban abuela makes a no-frills plantain soup, while an emigré in Hampstead recreates her Russian mother’s piroshkis. A Tanzanian-born granny attributes her youthful complexion to a lifetime of cooking with yogurt, which is generously used in her Gujarati dry vegetable curry. Woven throughout are paeans to other grandmothers from such well-known cooks and food writers as Argentine chef Francis Mallmann and Anna Jones, the latter of whom shares the “five commandments” of her Mam’s Yorkshire pudding (starting with “don’t be scared of heat”). Like the time-tested recipes within it, this is made with love and enriching in more ways than one. (May)

Publishers Weekly

"In this delightful debut, a pair of British Gen Z’ers pay homage to grandmothers with dishes inspired by a generation whose culinary contributions reach far beyond their homes. In an ambitious effort to document the recipes of “grannies of all ages, backgrounds and ethnicities” the authors visited grandmothers in Cuba, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Russia, the U.K., and the U.S...Like the time-tested recipes within it, this is made with love and enriching in more ways than one." — Publishers Weekly

"What makes Grand Dishes most fascinating is the sensitive way it’s recorded the voices of a generation of women whose lives were largely domestic, quietly led and underrecognized.” — Toronto Star

“​​In an age when celebrity and trendy cookbooks have become the norm, “Grand Dishes” gives voice to the women whose largest platform is their own families...reads like a multi-family memoir, full of wit, stories both heartbreaking and heartwarming, and beautiful dishes.” — Epoch Times

“[P]rofiles 61 great female cooks around the world who also happen to be grandmothers. It's a gumbo of profiles of women from across different cultures, along with their signature dishes.” — CNN Travel

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