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Hardcover

A fresh take on weeknight cooking from The Splendid Table’s Lynne Rossetto Kasper and Sally Swift

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 livesinspiring 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 inHow 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 Americas 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 Suppergives voice to rarely heard perspectives on foodfrom the quirky to the political, from the grassroots to the scholarly, from the highbrow to the humbleand shows the essential role breaking bread together plays in our world.

How to Eat Suppertakes you through a plethora of inviting recipes simple enough to ensure success even if youve never cooked before. And if you are experienced in the kitchen, you ll find challenging new concepts and dishes to spark your imagination.