At Grandmother's Table: Women Write about Food, Life, and the Enduring Bond between Grandmothers and Granddaughters
Author: Ellen Perry Berkeley
A wonderful book about grandmothers and the memories evoked by family meals. Nearly 70 women share their grandmothers' touching life stories and favorite recipes. Their essays show us why our grandmother's "comfort food" is indeed so comforting: it connects not only with her spirit, but also with the lives of our mothers, sisters, cousins, and daughters. An endearing look at family culinary history and the fascinating stories of women whose collective lives span three centuries.
About the Author:
Editor Ellen Perry Berkeley is an award-winning writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times.
Publishers Weekly
The particular stories each granddaughter shares go way beyond any stereotypes. In fact, though the recipes reflect each grandmother's warmth and personality, they take a back seat to the reminiscences themselves.
Midwest Book Review
Highly recommended reading for those who appreciate nostalgia, family traditions, and generational legacies in the kitchen.
Women's Times
A beautiful book—one I will give to my mother, one I wish my own grandmother could have read.
LA Parent
Sweet recollections from each contributor make this book a special treasure that reminds us of how much grandmothers give us, as children and forever.
Internet Book Watch
At Grandmother's Table offers a fascinating collection of writings about food, life, and the enduring bond between grandmothers and their granddaughters. Enhanced with the occasional recipes such as Grandma Riello's Spaghetti Sauce, Mildred's Wild Blackberry Tarts, and Grandma Rendler's Apple Strudel, At Grandmother's Table offers the intimate and candid thoughts of eight women, richly illustrated with vintage photographs and original drawings. At Grandmother's Table would grace any home or community library collection and is very highly recommended reading for those who appreciate nostalgia, family traditions, and generational legacies of the kitchen.
Book review: Simple to Spectacular or Christmas Cookies
New Basics Cookbook
Author: Julee Rosso
It's the 1.8-million-copy bestselling cookbook that's become a modern-day classic. Beginning cooks will learn how to boil an egg. Experienced cooks will discover new ingredients and inspired approaches to familiar ones. Encyclopedic in scope, rich with recipes and techniques, and just plain fascinating to read, The New Basics Cookbook is the indispensable kitchen reference for all home cooks.
This is a basic cookbook that reflects today's kitchen, today's pantry, today's taste expectations. A whimsically illustrated 875-recipe labor of love, The New Basics features a light, fresh, vibrantly flavored style of American cooking that incorporates the best of new ingredients and cuisines from around the world.
Over 30 chapters include Fresh Beginnings; Pasta, Pizza, and Risotto; Soups; Salads; every kind of Vegetable; Seafood; The Chicken and the Egg; Grilling from Ribs to Surprise Paella; Grains; Beef; Lamb, Pork; Game; The Cheese Course, and Not Your Mother's Meatloaf. Not to mention 150 Desserts! Plus, tips, lore, menu ideas, at-a-glance charts, trade secrets, The Wine Dictionary, a Glossary of Cooking Terms, The Panic-Proof Kitchen, and much more.
Main Selection of the Better Homes & Gardens Family Book Service and the Book-of-the-Month Club's HomeStyle Books.
Library Journal
Since they have sold the store, Rosso and Lukins could hardly call their new book The New Silver Palate Cookbook , but that, in essence, is what this is. It's a huge cookbook/reference work, filled with information on new ingredients and styles of cooking, practical advice on such subjects as entertaining and choosing wine, and more than 900 recipes. There are all sorts of dishes here, family favorites as well as company food, recipes that seem fresh and new but not, in general, overly trendy. An essential purchase, sure to be in demand.
Table of Contents:
| Preface: Our Next Chapter | ix | |
| Introduction: The Basics Become New | xii | |
| Fresh Beginnings | ||
| Amusements | 2 | |
| At Table | 40 | |
| Intermezzo | ||
| Beautiful Soup | 84 | |
| Pizza Pizzazz | 110 | |
| Prime Time Pasta | 127 | |
| The Risotto Rage | 150 | |
| Salad Daze | 159 | |
| The Vegetable Patch | ||
| Vegetable Magic | 194 | |
| Staple Stars | ||
| Going With Grains and Beans | 308 | |
| The Fish Market | ||
| A School of Fish | 334 | |
| Seashore Shellfish | 369 | |
| Which Came First? | ||
| The Chicken (and the Game Hen and the Turkey and the Duck) | 392 | |
| The Elegant Egg | 433 | |
| Fire up for Grilling | ||
| Hot Off the Grill | 456 | |
| The Meat Market | ||
| Meat Know-How | 482 | |
| Here's the Beef | 486 | |
| Chili, Burgers, Meat Loaves, and Hash | 516 | |
| The South of France | 529 | |
| The Pig Stands Alone | 539 | |
| Season to Taste: Herb and Spice Chart | 556 | |
| For the Love of Lamb | 564 | |
| Bravo Italia! | 581 | |
| Taming Game | 590 | |
| Bread and Cheese Please | ||
| A Fresh Loaf | 612 | |
| The Cheese Course | 634 | |
| And Everything Nice | ||
| Chocolate, the Magnificent Obsession | 650 | |
| Cake and Coffee | 666 | |
| The Fruit Orchard | 684 | |
| Island Fruits | 706 | |
| Desert Fruits | 712 | |
| The All-American Pie | 714 | |
| Nuts About Nuts | 735 | |
| Cookies and Milk | 738 | |
| The Proof of the Pudding Is in the Creme Brulee | 748 | |
| The Soda Fountain | 754 | |
| The New Basics | ||
| Microwave Miracles | 766 | |
| The Basics | 775 | |
| The Panic-Proof Kitchen | 786 | |
| Basic Pantry | 790 | |
| Glossary of Cooking Terms | 792 | |
| Conversion Chart | 800 | |
| Bibliography | 801 | |
| Index | 805 |
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