Read more
A COOKBOOK WITH A STORY
All of us remember special mealtimes from our youth. Early Sunday afternoon dinners with Mom or festive holiday gatherings at Grandma’s house... these get-togethers remind us forever of the loving bond of food and family.
Simple Pleasures is a book about good food – real food – and the stories behind them. Popular TV cook Chris Fennimore and Chef Daniel Agüera celebrate home cooking at its best with 80 easy-to-make recipes, from pasta e fagiole to flan. Drawing from the authors’ own Italian and Spanish family food traditions as well as all-American classics, Simple Pleasures invites us to get into the kitchen and create our own lasting food memories.
List of contents
Introduction
Simple Tools
Recipes:
Bread and Such
Soup’s On
Call It Macaroni
The Egg and Us
Family Favorites
Eat Your Veggies
Sweets for the Sweet
Index
About the author
Chris Fennimore is a popular figure on Pittsburgh’s WQED public television. Since 1993 he has produced and hosted the series “QED Cooks,” winning an Emmy and a James Beard Award along the way. He has produced, contributed to and edited more than 100 community cookbooks in WQED’s “America’s Homecooking Series,” used in membership drives.
Daniel Agüera is a world-traveled chef – born in northern Spain to a restaurant family and now lives in Pittsburgh. He has a formal culinary education and long experience in restaurants (including his own), hotels, stadiums and large commercial food centers. His philosophy is “simple ingredients done well.”
Summary
This book is all about simple-to-prepare foods, “real food,” from two big families: one is an Italian family in Brooklyn and the other a food-loving Spanish family in northern Spain...with some All-American classics included.
Additional text
"Simple Pleasures is the perfect last-minute gift for the cook on your gift list, especially if he or she loves easy-to-prepare comfort food. … Illustrated with mouth-watering photographs, the cookbook will appeal to beginners as well as more accomplished home cooks.
