"Researching Slate's 25 Most Important Recipes project last year reminded me just how transformative a great cookbook can be. Works like The Silver Palate Cookbook and The Vegetarian Epicure introduced new methods, new ingredients, and new flavors to American home chefs of their eras, helping them think about cooking and eating in ways that felt revolutionary. My kitchen could sure use a revolution, I realized. So I decided to spend 2025 cooking new recipes from new cookbooks and chronicling the results."
"Perhaps it was when my daughter's friend asked if the rice bowl was, like, the official meal of the Kois family that I realized I was in a little bit of a cooking rut. Sure, rice bowls are delicious and easy to make at scale, and endlessly customizable-vaguely Latin American rice bowl! Vaguely North African rice bowl! Vaguely Japanese rice bowl!-but maybe I could stand to expand my horizons a bit."
A yearlong project of cooking new recipes from recently published cookbooks broadened home cooking beyond habitual rice bowls and produced ten favorite dishes. The effort highlighted how influential cookbooks like The Silver Palate Cookbook and The Vegetarian Epicure introduced new methods, ingredients, and flavors to American home chefs. A cross-cultural caponata variation adds lemongrass and lime leaf to brighten off-season eggplant and tomato, delivering summer flavor in late November. Italopunk exemplifies a bold, playful Italian approach with vivid flavors and personality. Dozens of new releases were tested to identify lasting, go-to recipes.
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