The Splendid Table`s How to Eat Supper: Recipes, Stories, and Opinions from Public Radio`s

The Splendid Table`s How to Eat Supper: Recipes, Stories, and Opinions from Public Radio`s Award-Winning Food Show
author Lynne Rossetto Kasper , Sally Swift
Product Details

Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Clarkson Potter; 1st Printing edition (April 8, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0307346714
ISBN-13: 978-0307346711
Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 1.1 x 9.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds


Just when you thought the last thing the world needed was another book on weeknight cooking, along comes an entirely fresh take on the subject. As they do on their weekly show, host Lynne Rossetto Kasper and producer Sally Swift approach their topic with attitude and originality, making The Splendid Table’s How to Eat Supper one of the most engaging cookbooks of this or any other year.

As loyal listeners know, Lynne and Sally share an unrelenting curiosity about everything to do with food. Their show, The Splendid Table, looks at the role food plays in our lives—inspiring us, making us laugh, nourishing us, and opening us up to the world around us. Now they have compiled all the most trenchant tips, never-fail recipes, and everyday culinary know-how from the program in How to Eat Supper, a kitchen companion unlike any other.

This is no mere cookbook. Like the show, this book goes far beyond the recipe, introducing the people and stories that are shaping America’s changing sense of food. We don’t eat, shop, or cook as we used to. Our relationship with food has intensified, become more controversial, richer, more pleasurable, and sometimes more puzzling. How to Eat Supper gives voice to rarely heard perspectives on food—from the quirky to the political, from the grassroots to the scholarly, from the highbrow to the humble—and shows the essential role breaking bread together plays in our world.