A Taste of Switzerland by Sue Style, photographs by John Miller ISBN: 3-9520002-7-2 Price: CHF 48.50 160 pages, hardbound | Typisch Schweiz | Fruits of the Forest | Alsace gastronomique | Now you can discover some of Switzerland's finest recipes and culinary traditions. A Taste of Switzerland includes more than 50 recipes of specialities from all regions of Switzerland. Chapters focus on festivities, breads, cheeses, sausages, game and mushrooms, the significance of chocolate, fruits, wine, and the art of the Swiss hotelier. There is a bibliography, a list of food and wine museums,an index and 122 luscious colour photographs.

Swiss food, folklore, history and traditions are interspersed with many recipes to give you a tempting taste of the richness of the country's diverse gastronomic cultures. Sue Style's writing stimulates more than your taste buds as she describes the delectable flavours that give a unique identity to each region. She takes you to dairies, vineyards, butchers and bakers, as well as to some of Switzerland's finest restaurants and hotels and shares with you her many impressions, anecdotes - and of course recipes. Clear and simple instructions enable you to prepare a whole range of Swiss dishes and specialities.

About the author:

Sue Style is an award-winning international food writer of seven books including Fruits of the Forest, most of which have also been translated into several languages. She writes regularly for a number of culinary magazines. Originally from Yorkshire, England, she speaks French, Italian, German and Swiss German, enabling her to exchange tricks of the trade with influential Swiss cooks, bakers, hoteliers and wine-makers. In A Taste of Switzerland she shares with you these fascinating aspects of living and cooking in Switzerland.

Contents

• Introduction
• Feasting and Fasting throughout the Year
• Daily Bread
• Of Cows and Cheese
• The Federal Sausage Feast
• Wild Beasts and Wild Mushrooms
• Champion Chocolate Consumption
• Fruits of the Earth and Heavenly Distillations
• A Taste of Switzerland's Wines
• The Art of the Swiss Hotelier

  Postscript

• Food and Wine Museums in Switzerland
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgements
• Index

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