Synopses & Reviews
In this, his first non-menu cookbook, the New York Times food columnist offers 100 utterly delicious recipes that epitomize comfort food, Tanis-style. Individually or in combination, they make perfect little meals that are elemental and accessible, yettotally surprising--and there's something to learn on every page. Among the chapter titles there's "Bread Makes a Meal," which includes such alluring recipes as a ham and Gruyère bread pudding, spaghetti and bread crumbs, breaded eggplant cutlets, and David's version of egg-in-a-hole. A chapter called "My Kind of Snack" includes quail eggs with flavored salt; speckled sushi rice with toasted nori; polenta pizza with crumbled sage; raw beet tartare; and mackerel rillettes. The recipes in "Vegetables to Envy" range from a South Indian dish of cabbage with black mustard seeds to French grandmother-style vegetables. "Strike While the Iron Is Hot" is all about searing and quick cooking in a cast-iron skillet. Another chapter highlights dishes you can eat from a bowl with a spoon. And so it goes, with one irrepressible chapter after another, one perfect food moment after another: this is a book with recipes to crave.
Review
One of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Cookbooks for Fall 2013
"Intimate, uncannily familiar food, the kind that evokes the feelings of home and pure comfort. David Tanis's understanding of flavors and ingredients is second to none."--Yotam Ottolenghi, author of Jerusalem: A Cookbook
"If I could have one person in the world (besides my husband!) make me a snack or one good dish it would be David Tanis.
Review
Top 10 Cookbooks of the Year, Washington Post
Top 10 Cookbooks of the Year, Entertainment Weekly
Best Books of 2013, NPR
Best of the Year in Cookbooks, Amazon
Top 10 Cookbooks for Fall 2013, Publishers Weekly
"Trust David Tanis to keep it real.
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Top 10 Cookbooks of the Year, Washington Post
Synopsis
Named a Best Cookbook of the Year by NPR, Entertainment Weekly, the Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, and more
In his first non-menu cookbook, the New York Times food columnist offers 100 utterly delicious recipes that epitomize comfort food, including nourishing dishes made from ingredients found in every pantry. Individually or in combination, they make perfect little meals that are elemental and accessible, yet totally surprising--and there's something to learn on every page. Among the chapter titles there's "Bread Makes a Meal," which includes such alluring recipes as a ham and Gruy re bread pudding, spaghetti and bread crumbs, breaded eggplant cutlets, and David's version of egg-in-a-hole. A chapter called "My Kind of Snack" includes quail eggs with flavored salt; speckled sushi rice with toasted nori; polenta pizza with crumbled sage; raw beet tartare; and mackerel rillettes. The recipes in "Vegetables to Envy" range from a South Indian dish of cabbage with black mustard seeds to French grandmother-style vegetables. "Strike While the Iron Is Hot" is all about searing and quick cooking in a cast-iron skillet. Another chapter highlights dishes you can eat from a bowl with a spoon. And so it goes, with one irrepressible chapter after another, one perfect food moment after another: this is a book with recipes to crave.
Synopsis
From the kitchen of acclaimed chef David Tanis, an irresistible collection of home-cooked dishes
About the Author
In his three decades behind the stove, David Tanis has overseen kitchens in Santa Fe and Paris and throughout the San Francisco Bay area, mostly notable at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California, where he was a chef for nearly 20 years. His writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal and Fine Cooking magazine and he currently writes the weekly City Kitchen column for The New York Times. Tanis’s A Platter of Figs and Other Recipes was chosen as one of the 50 best cookbooks ever written by The Guardian/Observer (UK), and his Heart of the Artichoke and Other Kitchen Journeys was nominated for a James Beard Award. His newest book is One Good Dish.