In Praise of Home Cooking: Reasons and Recipes

Award-winning cookbook author Liana Krissoff presents an evocatively written ode to home cooking with all the guidance you need to perfect your own easy-to-master family recipes

In her most personal book to date, trusted cookbook author Liana Krissoff shares how to make her favorite dishes and stories from her life as a professional recipe tester, writer, and mother. To Krissoff, developing resourceful habits and perfecting uncomplicated dishes––a pot of fluffy rice and one of creamy beans, a seared steak and a colorful salad––are integral to living with great pleasure, and so she shows us the way. With step-by-step illustrations that demystify key cooking skills and more than eighty-five of Krissoff's most treasured recipes for easy, family-friendly meals, this guide to a well-lived life inn the kitchen offers keen insights into sharing a love of food with those around us, encouraging us to find meaning and joy in cooking at home.