The Pleasures of Cooking for One

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"If we had in our libraries only the food books Judith Jones has edited, what an impeccable culinary education that would be: a curriculum of foods of the world, rigorous, responsible, and delightfully authentic Jones edits for the home cook—that is, for herself. Never dazzled by restaurant chefs, she doesn't fall into the trap of worshiping celebrities; she prefers, instead, to create her own." —The New York Times Book Review
"An entire generation of women (including me) learned to cook from Julia Child's books. And for that we have Judith Jones to thank. Judith was the first to champion Julia's brilliant career, as well as the careers of many others who have changed the world of food. This, Judith's personal adventure, is a truly wonderful stoiy." —Ina Garten
"Judith Jones has written a love letter to food—charming, wise, and irresistibly tasty." —Peter Mayle
"In Jones's lovely memoir, the woman who introduced Americans to Julia... Tovább

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CPraise for ^ucfiiJi ^ones THE TENTH MUSE
"If we had in our libraries only the food books Judith Jones has edited, what an impeccable culinary education that would be: a curriculum of foods of the world, rigorous, responsible, and delightfully authentic Jones edits for the home cook—that is, for herself. Never dazzled by restaurant chefs, she doesn't fall into the trap of worshiping celebrities; she prefers, instead, to create her own." —The New York Times Book Review
"An entire generation of women (including me) learned to cook from Julia Child's books. And for that we have Judith Jones to thank. Judith was the first to champion Julia's brilliant career, as well as the careers of many others who have changed the world of food. This, Judith's personal adventure, is a truly wonderful stoiy." —Ina Garten
"Judith Jones has written a love letter to food—charming, wise, and irresistibly tasty." —Peter Mayle
"In Jones's lovely memoir, the woman who introduced Americans to Julia Child reveals how the cookbooks she has published over the last fifty years came to have such a profound effect on American tastes. Add to that Jones's incredible memoiy for detail, helped by years of correspondence with the food icons she has published, and you have a rare glimpse into the roots of the modern culinary world." —Chicago Tribune
"Engrossing . . . The Tenth Muse lets you pull up a chair at the kitchen tables where American gastronomic history took shape." — 0, The Oprah Magazine

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rom the legendary editor of some of the world's greatest cooks—including Julia Child and James Beard—a passionate and practical book about the joys of cooking for one.
Here, in convincing fashion, Judith Jones demonstrates that cooking for yourself presents unparalleled possibilities for both pleasure and experimentation: you can utilize whatever ingredients appeal, using farmers' markets and specialty shops to enrich your palate and improve your health; you can feel free to fail, since a meal for one doesn't have to be perfect; and you can use leftovers to innovate—in the course of a week, the remains of beef bourguignon might be reimagined as a ragú, pork tenderloin may become a stir-fry, a cup or two of wild rice produces both a refreshing pilaf and a rich pancake, and red snapper can be reinvented as a summery salad. It's a fulfilling and immensely economical process, one perfecdy suited for our times—although, as Jones points out, cooking for one also means we can occasionally indulge ourselves in a favorite treat.
Throughout, Jones is both our instructor and our mentor, suggesting basic recipes—such as tomato sauce, preserved lemons, pesto, and homemade stock—that all cooks should have on hand; teaching us how to improvise using an ingenious strategy of building meals through the week; and supplying us with a lifetime's worth of tips and shortcuts. From Child's advice for buying fresh meat to Beard's challenge to beginning crepe-makers and Lidia Bastianich's tips for cooking perfectly sauced pasta, Jones's book presents a wealth of acquired knowledge from our finest cooks.
The Pleasures of Cooking for One is a vibrant, wise celebration of food and enjoying our own company from one of our most treasured cooking experts. Vissza