An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace

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What you think of this book really depends on who you are. What doubtless is true, whatever your take, is that An Everlasting Meal: Cooking With Economy and Grace isn’t really a cookbook, as Alice Waters points out in the foreward, who adds that the book “gently reveals Tamar’s [Tamar Adler] philosophy.” She explains how to smarten up simple food and gives advice for fixing dishes gone awry. She recommends turning to neglected onions, celery, and potatoes for inexpensive meals that taste full of fresh vegetables, and cooking meat and fish resourcefully.

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Wonderful book … I regard it as a sacred text! I can best describe it as the most beautifully written description of what cooking is all about, and what it actually is, with recipes. It has such wisdom and calmness and, yes, grace’ – Nigella Lawson The Everlasting Meal Cookbookis as inspiring as it is essential. Before you even finish reading the introduction, you know you are in good hands. Tamar Adler can teach the most trepidatious person to become a more intuitive and spontaneous cook." —Andy Baraghani, author of The Cook You Want to Be Nevertheless, I got many great ideas for my own cooking experiments and would recommend this book to anyone who loves to cook and doesn't want to waste any food. I have never read Tamar Adler’s An Everlasting Meal, but, if I never get the virus, friends, I am attributing my survival entirely to the fact that I once merely heard about Tamar Adler’s An Everlasting Meal (a book so powerful that I am beginning to think that no one ever actually could read it without suffering some sort of permanent brain injury, or descending into madness, or raising up a creature from the Dark Pool Below the Tower in My Dreams and unleashing it on an unready world) and that, upon merely hearing of Tamar Adler’s An Everlasting Meal, I inscribed in my deepest and darkest most everlasting thoughts a message that will never leave me, that I cannot — that I will not! I refuse to! — forget: “Thus darkly and alone is the Way to everl Tamar Adler has written the best book on ‘cooking with economy and grace’ that I have read since MFK Fisher’ Michael Pollanbut today as i was making broth in my kitchen for the next couple of weeks, i realized it was because of this book, and that the change it had brought about in my life, tho small in some ways, is probably one of the more significant forms of impact a book has ever had on me. i used to buy broth in bulk every month or so, and now, instead, i always make my own. i make it every other week or so, enough to last a week or two or three. and i do it without thinking about it much, and without spending anything on it (other than i now buy fancy bay leaves in bulk). i make it out of bits of things that i've saved over the week for that purpose-- also without thinking about it much. and, truly, i do it because (1) it makes everything i make taste so much better, (2) i enjoy it, and (3) because this lady explained to me in detailed, practical terms, what it looks like to be a person who regularly makes her own broth. for years now i've done it. "with economy and grace" might be overstating my achievement, but it's certainly been without much thought or effort. i'm transformed! The simplicity of boiling vegetables might be maligned n our country, but the idea of boiled meat is pure anathema…. I've made this a few times - it's quite good. I would make it more often, but the only thing I can think to do with it is mix with pasta or spread on bread, and the kids don't love it. It's been a while though, I should try it again.... and I did! Yum. We just ate it with a spoon. I will make this more often. (But it does take about 2 hours to cook) Waste not. Want not. Influenced by the first chapters, while I was making one meal I piled the vegetable scraps and skins I would generally toss into the compost into a big pot and covered them with water and the bit of beer I had leftover from the main dish...threw in a few peppercorns & a bay leaf...and simmered until the scraps were very soft and had given up their flavor. I strained the broth through fine mesh. The result was a beautiful brown delicately earth flavored broth. I pulled leftover mashed potatoes and the quarter cup of leftover cream I had in the refrigerator. Sauteed the quarter onion in the vegetable drawer. We had two huge bowls of delectable potato soup for dinner that night...sprinkled with a last small bit of gruyere grated...with a glass of hearty rustic red wine. It was a spectacularly simple feast made from bits & pieces. So satisfying. In An Everlasting Meal, Tamar Adler has written a book that “reads less like a cookbook than like a recipe for a delicious life” ( New York magazine).

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In an age when every recipe seems to come with a list of ingredients as long as my arm, Tamar Adler's approach to food is disarmingly simple, refreshingly intuitive, and utterly sensible. I found her suggestions for what to do with the odds and ends of dishes particularly helpful. (I'll never stare at a giant bunch of parsley or a rind of Parmesan with bewilderment again!) The night I finished the book, I found myself confronted with rather bare cupboards and, armed with Adler's injunctions and encouragement, managed to whip up a delicious soup of old potatoes, wilted green onions, and bacon bits that quite literally may have changed my entire outlook on cooking. Tamar Adler is more than a wonderful food writer - she is a wonderful writer … A profound book’ Sheila Heti Jennifer Wilson takes a turn touching the third rail of book criticism by pointing out that a widely lauded feminist author of many books is maybe a bit too easy to agree with. 4. “ The Brilliant Plodder” by David Quammen, The New York Review of Books

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I enjoyed reading this. It's not an over the top superlative enjoyment nor a disdain at over-writing. It was a pleasant, empowering read. It helps to think of food a little differently, to think of the beauty and companionship of food, the simplicity of enjoying good food well cooked. and as soon as she gets home she scrubs off the dirt, trims the leaves, chops and peels, and then cooks and prepares all the vegetables at once — washing and separating lettuce leaves; drizzling cauliflower, If you have already submitted another request to index a book or magazine yourself, please do not make any additional requests until you have indexed and submitted that book or magazine.

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By wresting cooking from doctrine and doldrums, Tamar encourages readers to begin from wherever they are, with whatever they have. An Everlasting Meal is elegant testimony to the value of cooking and an empowering, indispensable tool for eaters today.

These are the kinds of food books I actually enjoy. Because as I like to tell me husband, I am *physically incapable* of following a recipe for anything (including baking). I will not be boxed in. At least a couple items will be altered, substituted, or otherwise switched up. I still have plans to make so many — so many different — curries that it would make your head explode. If I told you how many I’m afraid the information would hurt you. The most beautifully written description of what cooking is all about, and what it actually is, with recipes’ Nigella Lawson

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That said, this was a mildly successful book, in that it did teach me some things, while also boring me through some chapters of stuff I already know. The chapter on beans was especially eye-opening, as I do not cook beans nearly enough (usually I just reach for the canned ones at the last minute). And for that alone, as well as some useful tidbits here and there, this was worth reading. This is the book I’ve been waiting for all my life... a rejuvenating approach to using up odd ends and making the most of your ingredients, even ones you normally wouldn’t think twice about tossing.... Adler’s conversational tone feels like a friend cheering you on as you rummage through your fridge for dinner." — Bon Appetit basics to get started. In instructing readers on the art of intuitive cooking, Ms. Adler offers not just cooking lessons, but a recipe for simplifying life. Last year, Tamar Adler—a former editor at Harper’ s who went on to cook for Gabrielle Hamilton, at Prune, open a restaurant in Athens, Georgia, and work for Alice Waters, at Chez Panisse—published a book about home cooking called “ An Everlasting Meal,” modelled on M. F. K. Fisher’s classic “How to Cook a Wolf.” The book is a lyrical collection of essays that starts with a chapter titled “How to Boil Water,” and goes on to offer unexpected and culinarily sound advice.Skins of 3–4 bananas (if you peel them in the morning and are cooking later, soak them in acidulate water, with lemon, vinegar, or a piece of turmeric)