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
Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 641.53 EAN: 9780307346711 ISBN: 0307346714 Label: Clarkson Potter Manufacturer: Clarkson Potter Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: April 08, 2008 Publisher: Clarkson Potter Release Date: April 08, 2008 Sales Rank: 160 Studio: Clarkson Potter
Product DescriptionJust 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.
What Others Say
A departure in style
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 Meals
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 ... Read More
Creative Cook
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. The Splendid Table's How to Eat Supper: Recipes, Stories, and Opinions from Public Radio's Award-Winning Food Show is a gourmet-wanna-be's dream.
Delicious and inspiring
I received The Splendid Table's How to Eat Supper: Recipes, Stories, and Opinions from Public Radio's Award-Winning Food Show from my girlfriend, who knows how much I love Lynne's show and collecting cookbooks. I am usually skeptical of books written by media personalities (e.g., nearly everyone on the Food Network) because the books are almost always hyped and are no more special than cookbooks written by others. A pretty face does not always a good cookbook make.
Many others have commented on the book's layout and design, so I'll focus on the recipes contained within the book. Most of the them require a lot of little ingredients, especially spices, oils, and herbs, so most of your time in the kitchen will involve gathering and preparing these than actually cooking the food. I found that nearly all of these dishes tasted better the next ... Read More
Practical AND inspiring
I work full time and cook for my husband and me. It is important to me to cook healthy meals and I am willing to purchase quality ingredients although my budget is limited and I hate waste (buying a jar when I need a quarter cup of a rarely used ingredient, for example). Once in awhile I'll cook an elaborate meal, but my preference is for meals that can get on the table with less than a half hour of my time and rely mostly on staples I can keep around. So far I LOVE the "Warm white bean salad with fragrent garlic and rosemary" which is now a weekday,throw-together-at-the-last-minute meal for us on a regular basis. I also LOVE the "Summer Zucchini Pasta." But the cookbook is worth the price for the French Fudge Cakes alone. I made the panna cotta and ... Read More
