Cook & Tell: No-Fuss Recipes and Gourmet Surprises

by Karyl Bannister

Book Overview

If you're a food lover with a secret file of best-loved recipes and you like real food from real kitchens, it's time to meet Karyl Bannister, the creator of America's favorite home-cooking newsletter,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0618127615
• ISBN13: 9780618127610
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.9" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

fun and easy cooking

This is a cookbook with the flair and flow of a simple, unpretentious friend trying to get you excited about time spent in the kitchen. There's very little training or technique required to make these dishes as most are about good ingredients being organized in a down east way that pleases both the eyes and particularly the taste. If you like to have friendly conversation in the kitchen about what works, this book will talk to you...with great ideas and lots of fun anecdotes.

A long-awaited cookbook from a beloved food writer

Karyl Bannister's "Cook & Tell" is a cookbook with recipes culled from her much-loved culinary newsletter by the same name. It bears the same homey, happy tone and the same simple, yummy recipes. Most importantly of all, the contents are aimed squarely at the real cooks in the world--the folks food writers Jane and Michael Stern term on the back cover "not trend-setters or celebrity chefs, but real people who worry about making tender pork chops for supper and moist chocolate cake for birthday parties."You never know what you're going to find here, as many of the recipes were shared by readers of Bannister's newsletter. So prepare yourself for the intriguing idea of cooking fish on the top rack of the dishwasher ("all the cycles!") as detailed on p. 180, or for the "you can't have too much stuff!" tenet in evidence in such recipes as Pear Upside-Down Chocolate Cake and One-of-Each Soup. But it's all good, and many of the recipes are accompanied with testimonials from Bannister's loyal audience who proclaim just about every recipe to be nothing short of mouth-watering.Bannister's own lean line drawings illustrate the book, and they are as much a pleasure to look at as the recipes are to make. This is a winner for any home cook.

My mom LOVES it.

I bought this for my mom, and she ADORES this book. She uses it all the time. I couldn't give you more info, other then the fact that she's 54, and adores it, and your mom will too! ~Andy

A Homespun Handbook for Everyday Cooks

From the creative artwork adorning each recipe to the understandable, easy-to-follow cooking directions, I enjoyed this cookbook from cover to cover. I found that I could make most of the dishes with a minimum of fuss and what's more, they taste great! I would definitely recommend this for the beginning cook as well as those of us who are more accomplished. It was a pleasure to read just for the sake of reading and it also makes a great gift.

What a wonderful book!

This is the very best kind of "cookbook" - the kind you can curl up with & read happily and the kind that's packed with things you can't wait to cook! Taking its tone from Karyl Bannister's "Cook & Tell" newsletter (I've been a subscriber for 15+ years), "Cook & Tell - The Book" is warm, informative and funny ... with lots of asides and tips that make you feel like you're having a great time in the kitchen cooking with good friends. The recipes are for the kind of lunches/dinners/desserts that "real people" eat ... relatively few "steps," with almost 100% easy-to-find ingredients. And they're good!Like many Karyl Bannister fans, I had been looking forward to this book for a long time. It's become an instant favorite of mine!