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

by Lynne Rossetto Kasper

Hardcover, 2011

Status

Available

Call number

641.5 K153

Genres

Collections

Your library, Cookbooks

Publication

Clarkson Potter (2011), Edition: First Edition, 352 pages

Description

Cooking & Food. Nonfiction. HTML:In this enticing follow-up to their first book, Lynne Rossetto Kasper and Sally Swift, host and producer of The Splendid Table public radio show, celebrate Saturday and Sunday�??those two days of the week when the pressure is off, time becomes your ally, and you get to slow down and dig into cooking in a different way. In The Splendid Table's How to Eat Weekends featuring 100 recipes, Lynne and Sally take you on escapades for a deeply pleasurable experience. They want you to head to different neighborhoods and markets, gather up ingredients, and embrace new cooking techniques and flavors that will carry over into your everyday meals. They include backstories about the rituals and reasons behind particular dishes (such as why lettuce figures into southern Chinese New Year celebrations) and take you deep into the aromatic aisles of ethnic markets and neighborhoods. Here are the recipes for weekends, when you can enjoy the journey of cooking rather than… (more)

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In the introduction to their new cookbook, Lynne Rossetto Kasper and Sally Swift note that a lot of their favorite recipes had to be left out of their last cookbook (How to Eat Supper) because they just took too much time for a weeknight meal. So they had to write this book to fill that gap. The

result is a collection of recipes that take a little work and/or time, but sound just as tempting. They also suggest menus and wine pairings. But the best part of the book is a collection of quotations, stories and tips that have come out of The Splendid Table radio show, some funny, some profound and all of them entertaining to read.

Some of the recipes I'm copying to try at a later date include the homemade ricotta gnocchi with saffron tomato sauce, caramelized pears, oven-roasted carrots with preserved lemon & allspice, and smoked romesco sauce. Can't wait!

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