In the Kitchen with A Good Appetite 150 Recipes and Stories About the Food You Love

by Clark, Melissa

• ISBN13: 9781401323769
• ISBN10: 1401323766
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-09-07
• Publisher: Hachette Books

Summary

Clark, a New York Times food columnist, takes readers into her home kitchen and delights them with personal stories interwoven with recipes in this engaging and scrumptious collection. Born to gourmands and exposed to a wide variety of foods from an early age, Clark possesses the uncanny ability to recreate meals from memory or invent them on the spot. Her love of breakfast results in buttery polenta with parmesan, olive oil, or fried eggs with swiss chard. Her obsession with the farmer's market inspires extra-sharp leeks vinaigrette and raw Tuscan kale salad with chilis and pecorino, and overcoming her aversion to crustaceans prompts spaghetti with spicy tomato, clams, and bacon. She shares the story behind every dish including Dahlia's fragrant chicken fingers, conjured for her chiliand bratwurst-eating one-year old's advanced palate. Italian sausages necessitate reinventing sausages with sweet pepper and onion stew, and fried croutons with chorizo and paprika. Clark creates for the home cook, making her dishes easy to replicate without special equipment and complicated preparation. Her trademark unassuming writing style, genuine love of food, and wealth of recipes, which cover chicken and meat, cheese, sandwiches, and desserts, are an incredible treat for foodies everywhere.

Author Biography

Melissa Clark is a staff writer for the New York Times, where she writes the popular column "A Good Appetite" and stars in a weekly complementary video series. The recipient of both the IACP and James Beard awards, Clark lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.