Who Wants Seconds?: Sociable Suppers for Vegans, Omnivores & Everyone in Between

by Jennie Cook

Overview

Caterer, artist, permaculturist, and master food preserver Jennie Cook shares a lifetime of favorite recipes in this gorgeous hand-illustrated and photographed visual-journal-style cookbook. Emphasizing the joy of sharing simple but delicious dinners at home with family and friends, Who Wants Seconds? is rich with personality, advice, color, and updated classic American recipes, with equal appeal to vegans and omnivores. Sidebars provide a wealth of spot-on advice for entertaining, as well as wisdom about sustainability, cooking for both flavor and health, and sourcing quality products.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781938849138
Publisher:	TURNER PUB CO
Publication date:	11/05/2013
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Jennie Cook is the chef and owner of Jennie Cook’s Catering and Plant-Based Parties, based in Los Angeles. She owned the L.A. restaurant Double Dutch Dinette for more than a decade and has been cooking and working in hospitality since she was a teenager. She is the chair of the board of Root Down LA, which promotes healthy eating at high schools in Los Angeles, and she is a Master Food Preserver, a Certified Permaculturist, and an avid visual journaler. Born and raised in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Jennie has lived Los Angeles since 1983.

Table of Contents

WHO WANTS SECONDS?
A Cook’s Journal, With Recipes & Sound Advice

Foreword

1. Born to Party
Lessons learned at my parents’ cocktail parties, the beauty of baked beans and cabbage, and the joys of eating outdoors.

2. Love in a Bowl: Soup
I learned to make soup in my twenties, when I could only afford lentils and white beans. The tricks I learned then for survival led to some of my most popular dishes at the restaurant and the catering company.

3. The Business of Cooking
My first dinner party as a caterer was in New York City; I served kebabs. Then I moved to Los Angeles and launched a career putting food on sticks. I’m sharing the recipes in this chapter reluctantly, because now everyone will know how easy my job is.

4. Feeding My Girlfriends
My girlfriends have had a huge impact on my life, and I like to think I’ve had an impact on them, too. God knows I’ve cooked for them, and here’s what they mostly like to eat: potatoes, meat, and dessert.

5. Slowing Down in Spain
My family rented a house in Spain with two other families one summer, and that’s when I learned how to slow down, relax, linger over the table, and make croquettas.

6. Sustainable Suppers & Permaculture Parties
My jealousy of Outstanding in the Field and underground supper clubs inpsired me to launch my Vegan Supper Club during the last two years of my restaurant. Here are my best vegan recipes, many of which I developed during that time.

7. Sunday Suppers
Create a balanced menu, set the table, light the candles, pour the wine, and connect with your current-day family. Trust me: It will become the most important part of your week.

Editorial Reviews

★ 10/14/2013
This engaging and colorful book covers a lot of food and fun. The author is a long-time caterer in California and an advocate of healthy dining and fills her volume with recipes that are unfailingly delicious. She is also an artist, which is clear from the book's spectacular presentation—each page tinted with a mix of amazing fonts, headings, notes, and photos. Jennie Cook is also a family woman, regaling the reader with anecdotes including the culinary exploits of her "Chef Ma" and tales of a family vacation discovering delicacies in Spain. Among the innovative yet approachable recipes are burgundy beef stew, lacquered chicken, and a reputedly never-fail fruit crumble that can be made in several ways. There's a simple recipe for pickled cranberries and a "Boozy Blackberry Balsamic Reduction" that adds "pow" to everything it touches. Every dish has a story; Cook welcomes reader into her kitchen with recipes dedicated to excellent cuisine. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly

"Jennie has a great talent for building relationships around delicious food—this beautiful book shares the spirit of her cooking."

— Jamie Oliver, author of Jamie's 15 Minute Meals, The Naked Chef, and many more books

"Jennie Cook is the most talented caterer in Los Angeles. I've been lucky enough to have had many fine meals she has prepared. Her dishes inspire everyone from vegans to carnivores to come back for seconds

— Erik Knutzen, author of The Urban Homestead and blogger at RootSimple.com

"A beautiful book full of intriguing recipes by a woman who cooks with consciousness and love. I can't wait to try them out!"

— Starhawk, permaculture leader and author of The Spiral Dance, The Empowerment Manual, and many other titles

"Jennie is a treasure in L.A., and now Who Wants Seconds? shares with the whole country her wonderful food and her passion for building community around the dinner table."

— Roy Choi, author of L.A. Son and chef/owner of Kogi Taco and L.A. restaurants A-Frame, Chego, and Sunny Spot

"This engaging and colorful book covers a lot of food and fun."

— Publishers Weekly STARRED REVIEW

"A fantastic book for those who tend to feel intimidated by entertaining, as it focuses on what's really important: sharing, community, and love; plus recipes that you know have been well tested in the field!"

— Emily Ho, The Kitchn

"It's refreshing to see something that feels like a modern Moosewood in a world of perfectly styled images."

— Food In Jars

"With colorful, hand-drawn illustrations and lots of stories about Jennie's upbringing in the country, her life of feeding people and family vacations, it's a very personal and accessible collection of dishes from Sunshine Ginger Soup to Kale Waldorf."

— Eating L.A.

"For Los Angeles chef and caterer Jennie Cook, the holidays are the perfect time to create meals that appeal to vegans, omnivores and everyone in between, thanks to great seasonal produce that can turn side dishes into culinary stars; It's [Who Wants Seconds?] a collection of 85 recipes designed to help build community around the table; regardless of how people choose to eat."

— Grant Butler, food and entertainment writer for The Oregonian

From the Publisher