Everybody Eats Well in Belgium Cookbook: 250 Recipes from a Rich Culinary Tradition

Its a country that boasts more threestar restaurants per capita than any other nationincluding France. Its a country where home cooksand everyone, it seems, is a great home cookspend copious amounts of time thinking about, shopping for, preparing, discussing, and celebrating food. With its French foundation, hearty influences from Germany and Holland, herbs straight out of a Medieval garden, and condiments and spices from the height of Flemish culture, Belgian cuisine is elegant comfort food at its bestslowcooked, honest, bourgeois, nostalgic. Its the Sunday meal and a continental dinner party, family picnics and that antidote to a winters day.In 250 delicious recipes, here is the best of Belgian cuisine. Veal Stew with Dumplings, Mushrooms, and Carrots. Potato and Leek Stoemp. Smoked Trout Mousse with Watercress Sauce. Braised Partridge with Cabbage and Abbey Beer. Gratin of Belgian Endives. Flemish Carrot Soup. SteakFrites. Belgian Steamed Mussels. Belgian Steamed Mussels. Cognac Scented Flemish Waffles. And desserts, some using the best chocolate on earth: Belgian Chocolate Ganache Tart, Lace Cookies from Brugge, Almond Cake with Fresh Fruit Topping, Little Chocolate Nut Cakes.As Belgians explain it, since one has to eat three times a day, why not make a feast of every meal? 57,000 copies in print.