For the ambitious beginner chef, this cookbook features 160 recipes, illustrated with watercolor illustrations, photographs and how-to techniques. Chapter sections like No Heat Appetizers, Drinks, Noodle Dishes, Weekend Breakfast and Dessert make learning to cook approachable and fun.
The model of the cookbook can function as a specific time capsule of American history. Molly Wizenberg writes in the Introduction to her cookbook, "A Homemade Life," "Food is never just food. ItÕs also a way of getting at something else: who we are, who we have been, and who we want to be.Ó Cooking is about initiating a social ritual and striving to create a running stitch between childhood and adult life. Home cooking today is a choice and it can become a method of seeking out the other, both within oneÕs own skill set and within the community and thus a means of exploring and expanding the concept of what is art, instruction and modern domesticity.