Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love

$45 · Offered by Kitchen Arts & Letters

The author of the revolutionary Salt Fat Acid Heat returns with another boldly innovative, nearly subversive book, this time masquerading as a great collection of everyday recipes. If Salt Fat was written to free cooks from recipes, Good Things , coming along eight years later, is more comfortable with the best aspects of what recipes can do: share amazing ideas for wonderful food. Nosrat shares those ideas in a variety of formats. Her chicken braised with apricots and harissa gets a familiar, standard recipe format, including notes on what might accompany it well and tips on varying the recipe with lamb. But long-cooked broccoli, which “encourages broccoli’s bitter and sulfurous aromatic compounds to dissipate, leaving only sweetness behind,” is simple enough to be rendered in a few paragraphs with the ingredients run into the text. A chart called “boiled spring vegetable matrix” provides manifold ideas for treating asparagus, snap peas, English peas and fava beans. You can employ these recipes and have a joyous time cooking from this book without ever engaging with its more thoughtful aspects, which might be like having a blast driving a shiny sports car to and from work without ever taking it out on the open road to see how it really handles. But Nosrat is a cook’s cook, someone who’s interested in more than just a quick meal. Perhaps you’ll recognize a kinship when she writes, “I’ve always had an unbridled enthusiasm for for things others might consider useless–apricot pi

• Binding: Hardcover

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