This is not about putting together quick meals on a weeknight, but neither is it about fussing over food until you get it just right. It is about making strongly flavored and well balanced food that works. She has some of the aspects that I like about Alice Waters, which is letting the flavor of the food shine to it's best advantage, but she also doesn't take herself too seriously. She pokes fun at us, the home cook, but also at herself, and she has a dialogue with the reader about what is great about this recipe, what it can do for you or your dinner party, and what it cannot do. She has simple to prepare dishes and then there are dishes that you are simply not going to have half the ingredients on hand to make and you are going to have to go shopping. Maybe even in a different state if you are like me and you live in Iowa. But it is very fun and very beautiful, and one of the few cookbooks of 2017 that I chose to buy.
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