A Recipe for Cooking

I like Peternell's cookbooks because there's so much writing in them. His previous book, Twelve Recipes, was framed in a lovely and (for a neophyte like me) approachable way as a chatty, conversational guidebook to a handful of useful kitchen basics for his college-age son. A Recipe for Cooking expands to the range of a more traditional cookbook, but he keeps the same modest, welcoming tone that will talk you into cooking something ambitious (I have my eye on the Agnoletti del Plin in Brodo with Sweet Peas on p. 37) without you even knowing it.