James Beards Soups [Paperback]

Delicious simplicity . . . few [cookbooks] have caught my interest like the four debut volumes under the new '1 tsp. books' imprint. -- Saveur

These pocket-size reissues of classic James Beard recipes are ideal stocking stuffers. -- House and Garden

[C]harming little books that draw from James Beard's archive of unpublished and out-of-print recipes. Today his theories comprise the fundamental tenets of American cuisine. -- Buzz

Recipes in this series have been culled from James Beard's past cookbooks, many no longer published. Soup lovers will welcome this deliciously varied collection--heavy or light, thick or clear, provocatively spicy or comfortingly creamy, bean soups and chowders for winter or consommes and Scandinavian fruit soups for the warm days of summer. 25 illus.

John Ferrone, an editor at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich for twenty-six years, worked with James Beard on five of his cookbooks, over one hundred articles, and his memoir, Delights and Prejudices. Ferrone also has edited a volume of Beard's letters to Helen Evans Brown, Love and Kisses and a Halo of Truffles. He lives in New York City.