An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace [Paperback]

InAn Everlasting Meal,Tamar Adler has written a book that “reads less like a cookbook than like a recipe for a delicious life” (New Yorkmagazine).

In this meditation on cooking and eating, Tamar Adler weaves philosophy and instruction into approachable lessons on feeding ourselves well.An Everlasting Mealdemonstrates 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 Mealis an elegant testimony to the value of cooking.Tamar Adler is the James Beard and IACP Award–winning author of An Everlasting Meal; Something Old, Something New; and the bestselling The Everlasting Meal Cookbook. She is a contributing editor at Vogue and has been a New York Times Magazine columnist. She has cooked at Chez Panisse, and lives in Hudson, New York.

Alice Watersis the visionary chef and owner of Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California. She is the author of four cookbooks, includingChez Panisse VegetablesandFanny at Chez Panisse. Known as the Queen of Local Food, she founded the Edible schoolyard at BlC5