Foreword by Pierre Franey. More than 1.000 regional. ethnic and haute cuisine recipes in this cookbook bible. This extraordinary volume reflects the revolutionary changes that have occurred in the American kitchen. Line drawings and b&w drawings throughout.

Contains 350 recipes, many by famous chefs, and information on restaurants, tools, techniques, people, and places associated with cookery.

The author introduces many of the three hundred dishes featured in a back-in-print cookbook that focuses exclusively on the South with comments and notes on their history, their evolution over the years, and his favorite versions.

A New York Times bestseller and Winner of the James Beard Award All the best recipes from 150 years of distinguished food journalism—a volume to take its place in America's kitchens alongside Mastering the Art of French Cooking and How to Cook Everything. Amanda Hesser, co-founder and CEO of Food52 and former New York Times food columnist, brings her signature voice and expertise to this compendium of influential and delicious recipes from chefs, home cooks, and food writers. Devoted Times subscribers will find the many treasured recipes they have cooked for years—Plum Torte, David Eyre's Pancake, Pamela Sherrid's Summer Pasta—as well as favorites from the early Craig Claiborne New York Times Cookbook and a host of other classics—from 1940s Caesar salad and 1960s flourless chocolate cake to today's fava bean salad and no-knead bread. Hesser has cooked and updated every one of the 1,000-plus recipes here. Her chapter introductions showcase the history of American cooking, and her witty and fascinating headnotes share what makes each recipe special. The Essential New York Times Cookbook is for people who grew up in the kitchen with Claiborne, for curious cooks who want to serve a nineteenth-century raspberry granita to their friends, and for the new cook who needs a book that explains everything from how to roll out dough to how to slow-roast fish—a volume that will serve as a lifelong companion.

Craig Claiborne is best known for revolutionizing American cuisine by, among other things, adding the flavors of the world to home menus. Claiborne has shared the secrets of preparing dishes with the spices of the Levant and the Far East, the curries of India, and the cream sauces of France through his columns for nearly four decades and more than twenty cookbooks. About 60% of the 1,000 recipes in this exciting collection are drawn from Craig Claiborne's New New York Times Cookbook. The other 40% of the recipes are drawn from the five other Claiborne cookbooks mentioned below. No one has commanded the respect of his culinary peers more than Craig Claiborne. Included in this volume are recipes from master chefs who traveled from all parts of the world to share their cooking wisdom with him. Finally, dozens of imaginative collaborative recipes that were developed by Claiborne and Pierre Franey for gourmet cuisine and simple dining are found here. The Best of Craig Claiborne is a classic that belongs in every cook's library across the country.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The debut cookbook from the popular New York Times website and mobile app NYT Cooking, featuring 100 vividly photographed no-recipe recipes to make weeknight cooking more inspired and delicious. ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR: Vanity Fair, Time Out, Salon, Publishers Weekly You don’t need a recipe. Really, you don’t. Sam Sifton, founding editor of New York Times Cooking, makes improvisational cooking easier than you think. In this handy book of ideas, Sifton delivers more than one hundred no-recipe recipes—each gloriously photographed—to make with the ingredients you have on hand or could pick up on a quick trip to the store. You’ll see how to make these meals as big or as small as you like, substituting ingredients as you go. Fried Egg Quesadillas. Pizza without a Crust. Weeknight Fried Rice. Pasta with Garbanzos. Roasted Shrimp Tacos. Chicken with Caramelized Onions and Croutons. Oven S’Mores. Welcome home to freestyle, relaxed cooking that is absolutely yours.

From the bestselling "legend" of baking (New York Times), Maida Heatter, a modern-classic collection of her all-time best-loved, tried-and-true recipes "Happiness is baking cookies. Happiness is giving them away. And serving them, and eating them, talking about them, reading and writing about them, thinking about them, and sharing them with you." Maida Heatter is one of the most iconic and fondly remembered cookbook authors of all time. Her recipes, each a modern classic, are must-haves in every home baker's bag of tricks: her cookies, cakes, muffins, tarts, pies, and sweets of all kinds range from extravagantly special to the comforting and everyday. Her brown-sugary Budapest Coffee Cake, her minty Palm Beach Brownies, her sophisticated East 62nd Street Lemon Cake, and many other desserts have inspired legions of devotees. Happiness Is Baking reproduces Maida's best-loved recipes in a fully illustrated new edition with a foreword by Dorie Greenspan. Developed for foolproof baking by experienced cooks and novices alice, these recipes bear Maida's trademark warmth, no-nonsense style, and her promise that they will work every time. Happiness Is Baking is the perfect gift for anyone who loves baking--or who knows the happiness that comes from a delicious dessert.

This cocktail book features more than 350 drink recipes old and new with great writing from The New York Times. Cocktail hour is once again one of America’s most popular pastimes and one of our favorite ways to entertain. And what better place to find the secrets of great drink-making than The New York Times? Steve Reddicliffe, the “Quiet Drink” columnist for The Times, brings his signature voice and expertise to this collection of delicious recipes from bartenders from everywhere, especially New York City. You will find treasured recipes they have enjoyed for years, including classics such as: Martini Old-Fashioned Manhattan French 75 Negroni Reddicliffe has carefully curated this essential collection, with memorable writing from famed New York Times journalists like Mark Bittman, Craig Claiborne, Toby Cecchini, Eric Asimov, Rosie Schaap, Robert Simonson, Melissa Clark, William L. Hamilton, Jonathan Miles, Amanda Hesser, William Grimes, and many more. This compendium is arranged by cocktail type, with engaging essays throughout. Included are notes on how to set up your bar, stock, and run it—and of course hundreds of recipes, from Bloody Marys to Irish Coffees. The Essential New York Times Book of Cocktails is the only volume you will ever need to entertain at home.

"The achievements of great chefs parade through the columns in this second volume of 'Craig Claiborne's Favorites'. Famed dishes created by Paul Bocuse from his restaurant in Lyons, fine Italian offerings from Luigi Nanni and Alfredo Viazzi, the recipes of T.T. Wang and Uncle Tai -- the finest Chinese chefs in the country. Though classic French, Italian, and Chinese recipes appear frequently in his columns, the cuisines of other countries do not escape Craig Claiborne's enthusiasm. Dill-flavored Scandinavian specialties, Russian soups, German meat rolls, a fabulous Mexican stew, Persian appetizers, Greek salads, sushi, and yakitori, a hot soup from Vietnam. An on-going dialogue with Times' readers elicits a series of recipes for Indian Pudding and other American classics such as chili con carne and potato pancake. Bee-keepers in Illinois talk about cooking with honey and down-home recipes celebrate the sausage from Mississippi and the Boston cod. A dictionary of sauces for the newlywed; simple steps for smoking your own meat, fish, or fowl; recipes for buffets and picnics. Elegant ideas for leftovers and for stuffing most anything. Odes to chicken wings and the fine flavor of pork. Pasta dishes that take you far beyond lasagne. Soups for all seasons -- hot and cold. Formal preparations like preserved goose and quail à la Anglaise. Liqueur-spiked pies and deviled meats. Altogether some 350 recipes form this incomparable collection of Craig Claiborne's favorite columns and recipes of 1975. All the columns are handpicked and updated with comments and recollections of times meant to be shared. This book has a cumulative index incorporating all the recipes from the first volume."--