An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace

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Watching Ms. Adler cook vegetables is inspiring. (You can see her routine in two videos titled “ How to Stride Ahead” a.m.: I get incredibly hungry for breakfast. Today it’s Greek yogurt with my mom’s granola. I usually make granola, but my oven is broken. There’s an oven in the guest house, but the twenty feet that divides me from it seems too far. Plus, my mom’s granola is good. Mine is better. But hers is good. After that, I turn to book tasks. or stew. Instead we are guided by cooking shows that celebrate the elaborate preparations and techniques that Ms. Adler calls “high-wire acts.” Where the average home cook might see stray puzzle pieces that don’t fit together, Adler sees delicious possibilities... Drawn from her restaurant experience, kitchen experimentation, and global cookbook collection, Adler’s diverse recommendations range from practical to reassuring to unexpected." — Saveur There was a woman I met a year or so ago who told me she was a “wannabe foodie.” We talked a bit about what that meant. I told her I could dub her a foodie, if that was what she wanted, but when we got down to it, what she wanted was to know something—access. Really, she needed to be told that it is not a private club, and that if there is a club, it’s got shoddy bottle service and a broken sauna.

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p.118 anodyne: Adjective--Not likely to provoke dissent or offense; uncontentious or inoffensive, often deliberately Noun--A pain-killing drug or medicine. "It will do for you what you believe food should, no matter who you are. Gourmets are satisfied: the seductions of rice are whispered of; it can be topped with buttered spinach and Parmesan or shaved with white truffles, and to the palates of children who still think eating a beastly reality of life rice remains agreeably anodyne." 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. A short story from Daniel Mason’s forthcoming collection A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth, in which the narrator discovers a startling aspect of his recently deceased uncle’s favorite hobby. 6. “ Broken Pieces” by Cody Delistraty, Poetry 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 is when I started getting really into recipes. But, reader, I was still a mere “shopping for one recipe at a time” person, a type of person which I have, these past few weeks, come to regard as a very weak and inferior type of person when compared to this accomplished and frankly powerful “shopping for three weeks of meals at a time” person that I have become.

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I adore her unabashed campaign against food waste. It reminds me of Jacques Pépin's zeal for using up leftovers. (Anybody else recall The Tightwad Gazette?) An excerpt from Rebecca Dinerstein Knight’s novel Hex. After a lab accident, a disgraced toxicologist makes a choice. “I guess you could say that I like revenge and they like common decency. I guess you could say I don’t approve of myself enough to protect myself.” 9. “ Season of the Witch” by Ana Cecilia Alvarez, Bookforum

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I don’t know what “foodie” means, but it seems to me to mean something unbalanced. There is a difference, and should be, between being in the know about “in” restaurants, chefs, food trends and liking and feeling able to eat well. One thing that really matters is feeling as though one, and often only oneself, is able to completely freely satisfy one’s own appetite. That is a good reason to know how to cook. One of her most important lessons is that we need to spend less time thinking about food and more time just enjoying it. Her suggestions about how to prepare vegetables contradict much of what we have been taught, or Adler begins by stating that "we don't need to shop like chefs or cook like chefs; we need to shop and cook like people learning to cook, like what we are - people who are hungry." She takes all the angst out of the performance of cooking. Instead, she presents it as an enjoyable and inclusive activity for everyone.Tamar is creative, frugal, daring, practical, sensible, skilled, and she assures the reader that he or she can be too. The upshot is that I am going to have to own this book (thank you inter-library-loan service for the test-drive).

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Tamar Adler loves food and loves words. I love her writing. Two chapters in, and she's already quoted Robert Farrar Capon and C.S. Lewis. I surrendered. 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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The most beautifully written description of what cooking is all about, and what it actually is, with recipes’ Nigella Lawson The simplicity of boiling vegetables might be maligned n our country, but the idea of boiled meat is pure anathema…. 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, Adler takes the anxiety out of entertaining by simply stating "that no one ever comes to dinner for what you're cooking. We are all hungry and thirsty and happy that someone's predicted we would be and made arrangements for dealing with it." She writes very conversationally, with a recipe scattered here and there. Here are the chapter headings with (my summary).