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90sinmyheart's review against another edition
4.0
Beautiful recipes and meal ideas, but not my cup of tea and too much cilantro.
balletbookworm's review
5.0
I loved Julia’s first cookbook, Small Victories, so I was really looking forward to this one. One of the best things about this cookbook isn’t the recipes (although I can’t wait to cook the shit out of this thing - spaghetti pie is on the menu tonight, hey-o) it’s how Julia writes about food as an act of comfort and care, to show how a dish or menu can act as an aide du memoire or to express love. And anytime she writes about her wife Grace (founder of Design*Sponge) it is the sweetest thing ever. 💖
offbalance80's review
5.0
I definitely have A Cookbook Problem. I own dozens, and I usually have to be physically removed from that section of the bookstore. It is through this passion I have discovered that not all cookbooks are created equal. While some offer bizarre ideas of what is considered palatable, others seem to have an interesting idea of how time works (and are written by sadists who would make flour from scratch if they could, because they insist it's SO EASY). Some truly bizarre ones are a combination. I enjoy cooking very much, it's one of my non literary-based pursuits, so naturally I'm very picky about what cookbooks I read. This one has it all - terrific recipes, bundled into different meal plans combined with genuinely amusing anecdotes from the author's life. This and her other work - Small Victories - blew me away so completely that I'm lifting my purchase ban and buying these two as soon as I can.
cook_memorial_public_library's review
4.0
A 2018 staff favorite recommended by Erica. Check our catalog: https://encore.cooklib.org/iii/encore/search/C__Snow%20%26%20again%20turshen__Orightresult__U?lang=eng&suite=gold
briface's review
4.0
Organized by season and meal, followed by It"s me again" sections for leftovers. The 7 things to do with generic leftover is also awesome.
toad_maiden's review
3.0
I think Turshen is a star recipe developer, and some of the recipes is here will definitely added into my next meal plan. I also love her warm, generous authorial voice and her wit. My only complaint with this book (and with her first cookbook [b:Small Victories|97084|Apathy and Other Small Victories|Paul Neilan|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1311996129s/97084.jpg|93582] as well) is that the gimmicks don't work for me. This cookbook is loosely organized around the idea of reusing leftovers in creative ways, which sounds fine but ends up feeling like a flabby way to fill pages and give some sense of cohesiveness to the book. Turshen's recipes don't need these kinds of gimmicks. The meals she presents here are beautiful, well balanced, and inventive, and the imposed structure of the book feels totally superfluous. Since this is the second of her books that I have felt this way about, I suspect the issue is editorial. Perhaps when Turshen becomes slightly more well known, just her name and warm personality will sell cookbooks for her and she won't have to rely on arbitrary themes.
extemporalli's review
4.0
Really good ideas, a hiking menu I'm definitely gonna try soon, possibly too much meat for my taste
thekuster's review
4.0
Julia Turshen's recipe collection may not be the type of food that I crave or want to make on a regular basis, but I absolutely adore her approach. Each "chapter" is a fully realized meal with appetizers, a main, a side or two, maybe a drink and some dessert - but more importantly, inspirations for reinventing the leftovers. Meals are then grouped by season to encourage seasonality of the ingredients and even the setting in which you may be consuming them - picnics in the summer, late lunches in the fall... it's truly inspiring. The collection is not particularly picture-heavy, but each photograph is gorgeous and allows for the recipe to stand for itself without the feeling of a fussy/staged presentation. The final pages end on notes about tools, suggestions on what to do with leftover wine, takeout items and suggestions on how to "Give Back + Do Good". Just an utterly lovely recipe book all around.
Recipes to Try:
- Applesauce cake with cream cheese + honey frosting
- Easy pumpkin + olive oil cake
- Spiced banana brown bread
- Grilled Vietnamese flank steak
- Pressed broccoli rabe + mozzarella sandwiches
Recipes to Try:
- Applesauce cake with cream cheese + honey frosting
- Easy pumpkin + olive oil cake
- Spiced banana brown bread
- Grilled Vietnamese flank steak
- Pressed broccoli rabe + mozzarella sandwiches
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