Simple Cooking by John Thorne

Simple Cooking is a collection of newsletters that John Thorne wrote out of his home kitchen, investigating pleasure and food and eating and cooking. The aim of these essays is to understand and enjoy a dish that lets its ingredients shine, that's pared down to its component parts—to let something to stand on its own as a basic yet refined experience.  Simple Cooking is a book about understanding: what a dish is, how it came to be, what the conversations throughout history have been on the topic. The idea behind Simple Cooking is that if we listen to all the voices, if we immerse ourselves in the conversations between cookbooks and authors and recipes, we will come to a deeper, perhaps intuitive understanding of a dish. And through Thorne’s prose and our own process, perhaps a better understanding of history, place, and ultimately ourselves. The recipes in this book and their attendant conversations inspire a sense of curiosity that translate into an immediate need to get into the kitc