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The Splendid Table’s How to Eat Supper: Recipes, Stories, and Opinions from Public Radio’s Award-Winning Food Show

Posted by gourmetmall on December 26, 2008

 

 

 

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A departure in style3
Being used to a simpler format, I was distracted by the use of so many sizes and styles of type. I have two books by her and use them, but haven’t tried any in this one.

Satisfying and Quick Meals4
I love Lynn Rosetto Kasper (even though I always think her middle name is Risotto). Her efforts to support local organic agriculture are terrific and the depth and breadth of her knowledge about food is amazing. She loves a good story to go with her meals and to entice the reader. Little introductions to the recipes provide humor and extra motivation to the chef/working mom’s out there with brains who need a smart & interesting boost at the end of the day knowing that the recipes will inevitably take a little extra time, but provide a way more satisfying experience. In my mind, that is the perfect cookbook for a working cook, one that is a little funny, a little smart, that motivates you even when you want to sit down, and rewards you with a thoroughly delightful result. This cookbook is no different from her others, but except for its intention to allow you to make dinner after work without being too time consuming.
I have only tried a couple recipes so far and adapted one for another meal. In each case the meal was as advertised, simple and made reasonably quickly. My family so far has loved each one. That is a home cook’s best praise.
My only complaint is that the style & size of the type-face throughout the book is changed to “add interest” I suspect. But it ubiquitous & over the top, only serving to make it hard for me to quickly browse the contents when trying to select a meal to make. I would suggest that future editions omit most of the high impact typesetting and thereby help save the reader even more time by limiting its distracting quality.

Creative Cook4
My daughter bought The Splendid Table’s How to Eat Supper after listening The Splendid Table podcasts and wanting a book based on Lynne Rosetto Kasper’s and Sally Swift’s recipes and recommendations. I loved the book so much that I bought one for myself. The book has loads of pictures and many recipes are enhanced with variations and advice. In fact, the book is just plain fun to read! The menu suggestions on the inside of each cover will give your everyday suppers more pizazz and make company worthy meals a snap. This book is a gourmet-wanna-be’s dream.

About The Splendid Table’s How to Eat Supper: Recipes, Stories, and Opinions from Public Radio’s Award-Winning Food Show detail

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #157 in Books
  • Published on: 2008-04-08
  • Released on: 2008-04-08
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 352 pages

Product Description

Just when you thought the last thing the world needed was another book on weeknight cooking, along comes an entirely fresh take on the subject. As they do on their weekly show, host Lynne Rossetto Kasper and producer Sally Swift approach their topic with attitude and originality, making The Splendid Table’s How to Eat Supper one of the most engaging cookbooks of this or any other year.

As loyal listeners know, Lynne and Sally share an unrelenting curiosity about everything to do with food. Their show, The Splendid Table, looks at the role food plays in our lives—inspiring us, making us laugh, nourishing us, and opening us up to the world around us. Now they have compiled all the most trenchant tips, never-fail recipes, and everyday culinary know-how from the program in How to Eat Supper, a kitchen companion unlike any other.

This is no mere cookbook. Like the show, this book goes far beyond the recipe, introducing the people and stories that are shaping America’s changing sense of food. We don’t eat, shop, or cook as we used to. Our relationship with food has intensified, become more controversial, richer, more pleasurable, and sometimes more puzzling. How to Eat Supper gives voice to rarely heard perspectives on food—from the quirky to the political, from the grassroots to the scholarly, from the highbrow to the humble—and shows the essential role breaking bread together plays in our world.

How to Eat Supper takes you through a plethora of inviting recipes simple enough to ensure success even if you’ve never cooked before. And if you are experienced in the kitchen, you’ll find challenging new concepts and dishes to spark your imagination.

 

 

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How to Cook Everything

Posted by gourmetmall on December 25, 2008

How to Cook Everything (Completely Revised 10th Anniversary Edition): 2,000 Simple Recipes for Great Food

 

 

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Better books around2
I will admit up front that I do not have this edition, I own the prior one (yellow cover) but I can’t see how they possibly made it that much better. It was quite poor to begin with.

If you need a cookbook that will take you from novice to expert, teach you the basics and has many classic recipes like goulash, coq au vin and also teach you how to properly set a table then the New Doubleday Cookbook is the one to get. Bittman falls short on so many levels and it’s clear that it’s been overhyped. Perhaps all those glowing celebrity testimonials were paid for?

The New Doubleday Cookbook

Modern Joy of Cooking5
Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything is a modern Joy of Cooking – a wonderful present for a bride. His suggestions for seasoning are very helpful and good.

practical, easy to read, love it5
I haven’t had this book for more than a month and already I’ve used it a ton. I love the layout and the great tips. There isn’t any topic I can think of that he doesn’t cover. It’s a great, great book.

About How to Cook Everything (Completely Revised 10th Anniversary Edition): 2,000 Simple Recipes for Great Food detail

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #30 in Books
  • Published on: 2008-10-20
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 1056 pages

 

 

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