Canal House Cooks Every Day - by Hamilton & Hirsheimer & Christopher Hirsheimer & Melissa Hamilton (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>From the award-winning authors of the <i>Canal House Cooking</i> series, their first comprehensive collection of recipes by home cooks for home cooks. This magnificent compilation celebrates the everyday practice of simple cooking and the enjoyment of eating--two of the greatest pleasures in life.</b> <p/>From the award-winning authors of the beloved <i>Canal House Cooking</i> series comes Christopher Hirsheimer and Melissa Hamilton's <b><i>Canal House Cooks Every Day</i></b>. This magnificent cookbook, inspired by Christopher and Melissa's popular daily blog <i>Canal House Cooks Lunch, </i> offers a year of seasonal recipes for the home cook. <p/><b>Canal House Cooks Every Day</b>, the 2013 James Beard Foundation Award winner for General Cooking, is a handsome, red cloth-covered, 384-page book with nearly 250 recipes and over 130 lush photographs and illustrations. It's home cooking at its best--by home cooks, for home cooks--and it's pure Canal House. <p/>Regardless of the experience level of readers, <b>Canal House Cooks Every Day </b>will have them running to the kitchen to start cooking. The delicious, easy-to-prepare recipes celebrate the everyday practice of simple cooking and the enjoyment of eating. Christopher and Melissa use the best seasonal ingredients available to cook every day. Their recipes reflect the seasons, their appetites, their cravings, the occasions, and/or the demands of feeding their own busy families. This instant classic includes recipes for dishes as simple as a lunch of splendid summer tomato sandwiches or crackers spread with preserved lemon butter with smoked salmon and fresh chives to more complex meals like braised chicken with wild mushrooms and fine egg noodles. <p/>In addition to the recipes, this wonderful cookbook includes menus for all the great holidays throughout the year, plus twelve intimate essays--on picking a ripe tomato, making your own pasta, or foraging for wild mushrooms--that introduce each month and capture the feeling and vibe of that special time of the year. Cooking through this book, readers will become better cooks and gain an increased appreciation for the wonderful flavors and aromas of a home-cooked meal. <p/>Canal House Cooking has previously been featured for its inspiring recipes, friendly and knowledgeable voice, and drop-dead gorgeous photographs in a variety of publications including <i>O, the Oprah Magazine</i>, <i>Bon Appétit, The New York Times, </i>and<i> The Wall Street Journal.</i> Christopher and Melissa's daily blog, <i>Canal House Cooks Lunch</i>, has thousands of daily followers interested in what these two women have cooked up that day. This wide fan base will be pleased to see the release of this dynamic duo's newest cookbook with accessible and easy recipes for home cooks.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>... rustic-elegant recipes, blessedly un-fussed-over photography and essays reveling in seasonal shifts and quotidian pleasures. We should all live so well. (Wall Street Journal)<br><br>... Gorgeous meals. Their recipes are easy, folksy, and, sometimes, imprecise. But the rewards are many. (Betsy Andrews, Saveur)<br><br>A thick compilation of recipes you'll want to make - often. (Jane Touzalin, Bonnie S. Benwick, The Washington Post)<br><br>An abundance of honest, heartwarming recipes that put the joy in the joy of cooking. (Greg Morago, Houston Chronicle)<br><br>If you eat with your eyes, <i>Canal House</i> should leave you satisfied for weeks. (T. Susan Chang, NPR)<br><br>In the tradition of Julia Child and James Beard, this handsomely bound volume focuses on the classics and guides the reader through a year's worth of seasonal recipes. (Stan Sagner, Daily News)<br><br>Successfully captures a year in a beautiful setting. (Lisa Campbell, Library Journal)<br><br>A kind of poetry in recipe format. (T. Susan Chang, The Boston Globe)<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Melissa Hamilton is a renowned food stylist and cofounder of Canal House. She previously worked at <i>Saveur</i>, which she joined in 1998, as the test kitchen director, and was its food editor for many years. Hamilton also worked in the kitchens of <i>Martha Stewart Living</i> and <i>Cook's Illustrated</i>, and she was the cofounder and first executive chef of Hamilton<i>'</i>s Grill Room in Lambertville, New Jersey. She has developed and tested recipes and styled food for both magazines and cookbooks, including those by acclaimed chefs John Besh, Michael Psilakis, Roberto Santibanez, and David Tanis. She works with Christopher Hirsheimer on <i>Canal House Cooking</i>, for which the two do all of the writing, recipes, photography, design, and production. <p/>Christopher Hirsheimer is an award-winning photographer and cofounder of Canal House. Her experience includes establishing a publishing venture, running a culinary and design studio, and publishing an annual series of three seasonal cookbooks titled <i>Canal House Cooking</i>. Prior to starting Canal House in 2007, in Lambertville, New Jersey, Hirsheimer was the executive editor of <i>Saveur</i>, which she cofounded in 1994, and the food and design editor of <i>Metropolitan Home</i>. She cowrote the award-winning <i>Saveur Cooks</i>;series and <i>The San Francisco Ferry Plaza Farmers</i><i>'</i><i> Market Cookbook</i>. Her photographs have appeared in more than 50 cookbooks for such notables as Lidia Bastianich, Mario Batali, Julia Child, Jacques Pépin, and Alice Waters, and in numerous magazines, including <i>Bon Appetit, Food & Wine, InStyle</i>, and <i>Town&Country</i>. She works with Melissa Hamilton on <i>Canal House Cooking</i>, for which the two do all of the writing, recipes, photography, design, and production.
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