The Splendid Table's How to Eat Supper: Recipes, Stories, and Opinions from Public Radio's Award-Winning Food Show
by: Lynne Rossetto Kasper, Sally Swift
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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.
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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- A multi-faceted book
This is one of those cookbooks that one can pick up to find a great recipe or simply to read, with equal satisfaction. Many of the recipes are fresh twists on old standards, such as the
*Pan-Fried Deviled Eggs on French Lettuces (why didn't I ever think of this?), or
*Crisp Cucumber Shrimp in Retro Goddess Dressing, or
*21st Century Mac 'n Cheese (saints be praised and I'm not even Catholic); others, like the
*Cambodian Noodle Soup with Pineapple and ... Read More
Rating: - food is good
Congenial and useful, this book has become a mainstay in my kitchen. I wish the show was syndicated in the NY Metro area.
Rating: - I Now Own Monday Dinners
Since 1974, when I took Bernard Clayton's bread making class at Indiana University, I have been the family bread baker. Breads and only breads were my contribution to the cooking in our household. Then last Christmas my wife Mary gave me The Splendid Table's How to Eat Supper cookbook. She went one step further; she assigned me the job of preparing Monday evening's meal.
Because I lacked culinary skills, I started with a simple recipe, "Dressing-in-a-Bowl Simple Salad." Yes, I discovered ... Read More
Rating: - Great Cook Book
There were a number of good easy to follow recipes.Everything we have tried has been a hit with the family.
Rating: - Excellant Book
Much more than a cook book.Very interesting little known facts, hints and tips to try in your cooking, like spices which you may only consider using in ethnic dishes. A good book for newer cooks and seasoned ones like myself.
- A multi-faceted bookThis is one of those cookbooks that one can pick up to find a great recipe or simply to read, with equal satisfaction. Many of the recipes are fresh twists on old standards, such as the
*Pan-Fried Deviled Eggs on French Lettuces (why didn't I ever think of this?), or
*Crisp Cucumber Shrimp in Retro Goddess Dressing, or
*21st Century Mac 'n Cheese (saints be praised and I'm not even Catholic); others, like the
*Cambodian Noodle Soup with Pineapple and ... Read More
- food is goodCongenial and useful, this book has become a mainstay in my kitchen. I wish the show was syndicated in the NY Metro area.
- I Now Own Monday DinnersSince 1974, when I took Bernard Clayton's bread making class at Indiana University, I have been the family bread baker. Breads and only breads were my contribution to the cooking in our household. Then last Christmas my wife Mary gave me The Splendid Table's How to Eat Supper cookbook. She went one step further; she assigned me the job of preparing Monday evening's meal.
Because I lacked culinary skills, I started with a simple recipe, "Dressing-in-a-Bowl Simple Salad." Yes, I discovered ... Read More
- Great Cook BookThere were a number of good easy to follow recipes.Everything we have tried has been a hit with the family.
- Excellant BookMuch more than a cook book.Very interesting little known facts, hints and tips to try in your cooking, like spices which you may only consider using in ethnic dishes. A good book for newer cooks and seasoned ones like myself.
