Man With a Pan

by Donohue, John

• ISBN13: 9781565129856
• ISBN10: 1565129857
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-05-17
• Publisher: Algonquin Books

Summary

Mario Batali's kids gobble up monkfish liver and foie gras for breakfast. Peter Kaminsky's daughters won't eat anything at all. Mark Bittman reveals the four stages of learning to cook. Stephen King offers tips about what to cook when you don't feel like cooking. Mark Kurlansky would love a woman to feed him, just one. Jesse Sheidlower searches for the words to describe his vegetarianism to his kids. And Jim Harrison shows how good food and wine trump expensive cars and houses. More men cook now than ever before, and this is the first book to celebrate those good eggs who toil behind the stove, trying to nourish and please. Their culinary adventures are accompanied by over sixty family-tested recipes, time-saving tips, and cookbook recommendations as well as an array of New Yorker cartoons. Interviews with homestyle heroes cooking all across America--a fireman from Brooklyn, a football coach in Atlanta, a lawyer in Philadelphia, a bond trader in Los Angels--add to the mix. What emerges is a book not just about food but about our changing families. It offers a newfound community for any man who proudly dons an apron and inspiration for those who have yet to pick up the spatula.

Author Biography

John Donohue, an editor at the New Yorker, has been passionate about food all his life. He worked at a retail fish market when he was in college and was a short-order cook after graduation. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two daughters. He blogs about the cooking he does for his family at www.stayatstovedad.com.