The Essential Cookbook: Classic Recipes for a New Century

About this book

A New York Times bestseller and Winner of the James Beard Award All the best recipes from 150 years of distinguished food journalisma volume to take its place in Americas kitchens alongside Mastering the Art of French Cooking and How to Cook Everything. Amanda Hesser co-founder and CEO of Food52 and former New York Times food columnist brings her signature voice and expertise to this compendium of influential and delicious recipes from chefs home cooks and food writers. Devoted Times subscribers will find the many treasured recipes they have cooked for yearsPlum Torte David Eyres Pancake Pamela Sherrids Summer Pastaas well as favorites from the early Craig Claiborne New York Times Cookbook and a host of other classicsfrom 1940s Caesar salad and 1960s flourless chocolate cake to todays fava bean salad and no-knead bread. Hesser has cooked and updated every one of the 1 000-plus recipes here. Her chapter introductions showcase the history of American cooking and her witty and fascinating headnotes share what makes each recipe special. The Essential New York Times Cookbook is for people who grew up in the kitchen with Claiborne for curious cooks who want to serve a nineteenth-century raspberry granita to their friends and for the new cook who needs a book that explains everything from how to roll out dough to how to slow-roast fisha volume that will serve as a lifelong companion.