This is the first book by the famed chef and slow-food champion, Alice Waters. Filled with almost twenty different lessons for learning core culinary principles, and more than 200 recipes running the full gamut of sauces, pastas, breads and grains, vegetables, seafood, poultry, and desserts. "I'm convinced that the underlying principles of good cooking are the same everywhere," she writes in the introduction. "These principles have less to do with recipes and techniques than they do with gathering good ingredients, which for me is the essence of cooking." The Art of Simple Food can quickly become your new kitchen staple, bringing the ethos of the slow food movement into your daily life. 128 pages