The Zuni Cafe Cookbook: A Compendium of Recipes and Cooking Lessons from San Francisco's Beloved Restaurant [Hardcover]

A James Beard Foundation 2022 Cookbook Hall of Fame Inductee Bursting with wisdom from every page&Even if it only contained her influential manifesto on salting meats, This year's best cookbookthe one people are still likely to be talking about, and cooking from, 20 years down the line.... Just opening this book up is like plunking down the needle on one of those old LP's that tells you, on first listen, that you've made a friend you're going to keep for the rest of your life. This marriage of seasoned European sensibility and California caf? culture is the best of both worlds, and it's the reason why you should rush out and buy this book. Judy Rodgers was so true to herself with this book.The way she wrote about salt paved the way for me to write about salt. Better than the cuisine, though, is the writingand how many restaurant cookbooks can you say that about? Even the recipes are a joy to read. Perhaps more valuable than anything else in Judy Rodgers' impressive Authenticity, roots, craft; recipes deft as short stories. If you're buying only one, this is it.