Unlock Deliciousness with Simple Cooking: A New Path to Flavorful Meals

Blaine Miller: She takes ordinary foods and lifts them up! Photos are very carefully chooses. I will use this often.

United States on Sep 19, 2023

V. M. Avina: I love this chef and all of her helpful anecdotes. This is a very readable cookbook. It has tons of cute stories mixed in with her recipes and the recipes are creative.

United States on Aug 23, 2023

Frank: Vivian always does a great job with all the items she cooks. This book has each dish focus on a particular 'mixture' added to each dish. We seldom whip up the 'mixture' and use our own to make them, and she does an excellent job describing preparation and instructions.

United States on Jul 07, 2023

Marcia T. Cameron: I like this book so much that I ordered one for a daughter. Also Vivian Howard has a sense of humor and these recipes are fun!

Canada on Feb 03, 2021

Food, Glorious Food!Food, Glorious Food!: Honestly, I thought that Vivian would be hard pressed to top her last incredible book.
I mean, if your first book is an expansive ode to Eastern North Carolina (and one that weighs around the same as a small car) and that locale is where your inspiration hails from, then where do you go from there?

In the introduction to This Will Make it Taste Good, Vivian confides in us that she did struggle with that issue for a long time before finally landing on the concept of how to cook delicious, fast, simple, every day dishes at home without sacrificing big flavor and she has succeeded in that, BIG time!

I LOVE how this book provides ten piquant “hero recipes” complete with substitutions and then gives each hero an entire chapter to explore each one fully, via some wonderful sounding recipes for mains, snacks, drinks, salads, smoothies, desserts, glazes the list goes on.
In addition to the recipes themselves she also provides a heap of other ideas on how to use each hero recipe, so that you can imagine yourself stockpiling it and reaching for it time and time again to amp up everything you cook!

This book is 1950’s rollicking, with truly great, quirky,...

United States on Oct 21, 2020

prisrob: What has18 chapters, 331 pages and leaves you drooling, a Vivian Howard cookbook! She has outdone herself again. Her first cookbook! Deep Run Roots is an award winning cookbook, and it also won Vivian many kudos. This cookbook is similar in one way, Vivian tells the story of the recipe or how this cooking has impacted her life. This cookbook makes simple cooking exciting and accessible. You start out by reading this as you would any book, the stories of the food.

There are 18 chapters and 10 chapters dedicated to the food and recipes. The photos are simply luscious, the photographer is Dexter Miller, and he knows how to glorify the food. Everything about this cookbook is exquisite and yet simple. Each chapter and recipe has an unusual and eye catching name. Hippie Burritos, Rock Me Don’t Shake Me Lemon Pie, Tomato Gravy To Me, and Caesar Me Convinced, are just but a few of these quirky recipe names. What fun must have been had thinking up these names.

The point, of course, is that this is food for everyday. A simple addition that makes everything taste better. The side dishes often bring the food alive. Little Green Dish is a dish that is the most famous, a...

United States on Oct 21, 2020