Name: An Everlasting Meal
ISBN: 9781439181874

Tamar Adler

A practical guide to cooking and eating well regardless of financial circumstances explains how to shop and cook with an eye toward future meals while using scraps and leftovers to prepare nutritious, satisfying secondary foods.

Cooking with Economy and Grace

An Everlasting Meal

Nick Gracilla

A perfect winter read, especially if a pot of stew or beans is bubbling in the background, and some crusty bread with fridge toppings accompanies a glass of last night’s wine. Less a cookbook than a way of thinking, An Everlasting Meal will have you confident in trying something comforting, economical, and delicious. Recommended.

Evil Lizzard

I love this book, and I have reread it several times already. Thanks to this book, I now enjoy cooking. I’m no longer following recipes to arrive at culturally approved Meals (tm), but instead I eat what is in season, what I can afford, and what fits my mood, or memory. The tips on saving money and the environment actually work. This book has recipes, but is by no means a recipe book - it is a life skills book. Highly recommended.

Amelia

This book talks about food so beautifully. I love the essays and the recipes are amazing. We make boiled chicken all the time now!

Sarah Erle

In An Everlasting Meal, Tamar Adler has written a book that “reads less like a cookbook than like a recipe for a delicious life” (New York magazine). In this meditation on cooking and eating, Tamar Adler weaves philosophy and instruction into approachable lessons on feeding ourselves well. An Everlasting Meal demonstrates the implicit frugality in cooking. In essays on forgotten skills such as boiling, suggestions for what to do when cooking seems like a chore, and strategies for preparing, storing, and transforming ingredients for a week’s worth of satisfying, delicious meals, Tamar reminds us of the practical pleasures of eating. She explains what cooks in the world’s great kitchens know: that the best meals rely on the ends of the meals that came before them. With that in mind, she shows how we often throw away the bones, skins, and peels we need to make our food both more affordable and better. She also reminds readers that almost all kitchen mistakes can be remedied. Summoning respectable meals from the humblest ingredients, Tamar breathes life into the belief that we can start cooking from wherever we are, with whatever we have. An empowering, indispensable work, An Everlasting Meal is an elegant testimony to the value of cooking.

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