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The Pleasures Of Cooking For One
Judith Jones
Knopf
October 2009
On Sale: September 29, 2009
288 pages
ISBN: 0307270726
EAN: 9780307270726
Hardcover
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From the legendary editor of some of the world’s greatest
cooks—including Julia Child and James Beard—a passionate and
practical book about the joys of cooking for
one.
Here, in convincing fashion, Judith Jones
demonstrates that cooking for yourself presents unparalleled
possibilities for both pleasure and experimentation: you can
utilize whatever ingredients appeal, using farmers’ markets
and specialty shops to enrich your palate and improve your
health; you can feel free to fail, since a meal for one
doesn’t have to be perfect; and you can use leftovers to
innovate—in the course of a week, the remains of beef
bourguignon might be reimagined as a ragù, pork tenderloin
may become a stir-fry, a cup or two of wild rice produces
both a refreshing pilaf and a rich pancake, and red snapper
can be reinvented as a summery salad. It’s a fulfilling and
immensely economical process, one perfectly suited for our
times—although, as Jones points out, cooking for one also
means we can occasionally indulge ourselves in a favorite
treat.
Throughout, Jones is both our instructor and
our mentor, suggesting basic recipes—such as tomato sauce,
preserved lemons, pesto, and homemade stock—that all cooks
should have on hand; teaching us how to improvise using an
ingenious strategy of building meals through the week; and
supplying us with a lifetime’s worth of tips and shortcuts.
From Child’s advice for buying fresh meat to Beard’s
challenge to beginning crêpe-makers and Lidia Bastianich’s
tips for cooking perfectly sauced pasta, Jones’s book
presents a wealth of acquired knowledge from our finest
cooks.
The Pleasures of Cooking for One is a
vibrant, wise celebration of food and enjoying our own
company from one of our most treasured cooking experts.
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