One Good Dish, Hardcover/David Tanis

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In this, his first non-menu cookbook, the New York Times food columnist offers 100 utterly delicious recipes that epitomize comfort food, Tanis-style. Individually or in combination, they make perfect little meals that are elemental and accessible, yettotally surprising--and there's something to learn on every page. Among the chapter titles there's ``Bread Makes a Meal,`` which includes such alluring recipes as a ham and Gruyere bread pudding, spaghetti and bread crumbs, breaded eggplant cutlets, and David's version of egg-in-a-hole. A chapter called ``My Kind of Snack`` includes quail eggs with flavored salt; speckled sushi rice with toasted nori; polenta pizza with crumbled sage; raw beet tartare; and mackerel rillettes. The recipes in ``Vegetables to Envy`` range from a South Indian dish of cabbage with black mustard seeds to French grandmother-style vegetables. ``Strike While the Iron Is Hot`` is all about searing and quick cooking in a cast-iron skillet. Another chapter highlights dishes you can eat from a bowl with a spoon. And so it goes, with one irrepressible chapter after another, one perfect food moment after another: this is a book with recipes to crave.