Cook with Me: 150 Recipes for the Home Cook: A Cookbook

“Each and every recipe overflows with love and purpose, technique and soul, and, most of all, genuine joy for nourishing the people on your life who matter most.”—Gail Simmons, food expert, TV host, and writer of Bringing it Home

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND FOOD NETWORK

Growing up with a legendary cookbook-editor mother and a food-obsessed father, Alex Guarnaschelli has at all times loved to cook. Now, with a daughter of her own, food and cooking mean much more to Alex—they’re a way for her to share memories, such as shopping in Little Italy with her father for cured meats and aged cheeses, and tasting the recipes her mom would make from the cookbooks of the iconic authors she worked with.

And, more than anything, cooking is what Alex and her daughter, Ava, most cherish to do together. In Cook with Me, Alex revives the recipes she grew up with, such as her mom’s chicken with barbecue sauce and her dad’s steamed pork dumplings, offers recipes for foods that she wishes she grew up with, such as comforting and cheesy baked ziti, and details dishes new to her repertoire, including sheet pan pork chops with spicy Brussels sprouts and a roasted sweet potato salad with honey and toasted pumpkin seeds. From meatballs two ways (are you a Godfather or a Goodfellas person?) to the blueberry crumble her mom made each summer, Alex shares recipes and insights that may come only from generations of collective experience. These recipes reflect the power that food has to bring people together and is a testament to the importance of sustaining traditions and creating new ones.