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KCRW
Top 10 Food Book of 2021 A
Minnesota Star Tribune
Top 15 Cookbook of 2021 A
WBUR Here & Now
Favorite Cookbook of 2021
The James Beard Award–winning and
New York Times
best-selling compendium of the paper’s best recipes, revised and updated.
Ten years after the phenomenal success of her once-in-a-generation cookbook, former
food editor Amanda Hesser returns with an updated edition for a new wave of home cooks. She has added 120 new but instantly iconic dishes to her mother lode of more than a thousand recipes, including Samin Nosrat’s Sabzi Polo (Herbed Rice with Tahdig), Todd Richards’s Fried Catfish with Hot Sauce, and J. Kenji López-Alt’s Cheesy Hasselback Potato Gratin. Devoted
Times
subscribers as well as newcomers to the paper’s culinary trove will also find scores of timeless gems such as Purple Plum Torte, David Eyre’s Pancake, Pamela Sherrid’s Summer Pasta, and classics ranging from 1940s Caesar Salad to modern No-Knead Bread. Hesser has tested and adapted each of the recipes, and she highlights her go-to favorites with wit and warmth. As
Saveur
declared, this is a “tremendously appealing collection of recipes that tells the story of American cooking.”