A cookbook rec.

[sara]

I've been finding Alice Waters' The Art of Simple Food (New York, Clarkson Potter, 2007) useful in dealing with CSA boxes, because she really does cook seasonally, unlike most modern cookbooks. It's hard to work with books that assume you can mix seasons when you're trying to eat locally!

That said, her meat dishes often involve much, much more meat than we usually eat in our household, and she's certainly got her elitist moments (I dunno about you, but I don't have duck fat on hand regularly in my kitchen). Still, it may be worth a look -- it is one of the few cookbooks that lives in my kitchen cabinet rather than in my living room.

Comments

[daedala]

Ooh, thank you!

I'm in favor of meat, and a friend of mine gave me a tub of goose fat a few years ago. It's still in the freezer; I use a bit now and then.... :)

[sara]

Well, we eat meat, too, but our budgets do not run to steaks or lamb roasts or three pounds of beef ribs. Our budgets run more to, "We've got a half-pound of organic ground round from the Costco, what can we do with it?" ;>