The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution

tasty and inspiring

I love this cookbook. I've never been interested in cookbooks. I haven't enjoyed cooking nor did I come from a cooking family. This cookbook inspires me to cook and feed my family great food. Good cooking isn't hard, just some forethought for the pantry and lots of fresh food.

4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

great book to bring you back into the kitchen

This book will remind you how simple it is to prepare a lovely meal at home for family and friends. If you've been eating store bought roasted chickens for years and have forgotten what a home roasted chicken tastes like, this book will give you the inspiration you need to get your culinary juices flowing again.

3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

For the couple who is too hip for "Joy"

Alice Waters has not actually invented cooking. However, she does know how to collaborate and produce an attractive useful cookbook. This is my go to book for intelligent people who say they want to learn how to cook.

My 23 year niece learned to cook from it. I've given away at least three copies. Maybe I should keep one for myself? Nah, I already know how to cook. I learned from the usual suspects: my grandmother, Elizabeth David,and cooking with my friends. Perhaps, I learned the most from one memorable duck which resulted in my then neighbors calling the Fire department.

I explained the recipe came from Rose Levy Berenbaum. The cute guys from the FD explained about downdrafts. My guest and I drank a very fine bottle of wine accompanied by some delicious beans-- very very late.

I'm sure the Fire department wouldn't have been called if I'd been following Alice Water's advice rather than that of the Cake Book goddess.

2 out of 7 people found this review helpful.

my favorite cookbook

I love, love, love this book! I especially liked how she explains that process of cooking and suggests ways to tweak each recipie and make it your own. I like the idea of using fresh, in season, organic ingredients. I never knew that I could cook well, until I used this book!

2 out of 6 people found this review helpful.

Art of Simple Cooking

I have been cooking for over 40 years and I find I pull this out now just to tweak what I know but gives great idea's how how to make a good dish new, again.
It also makes a wonderful wedding gift.

1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

Indispensible reference for the cook at any level who wants to go organic.

Recipes are simple and delicious. Very informative. Makes a wonderufl gift.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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