‘I’M NOT A FANCY COOK’
Cookbook author Greenspan celebrates life’s simple pleasures in Everyday Dorie
“This is my food,” says Dorie Greenspan of her latest cookbook, Everyday Dorie (Rux Martin Books/ Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018).
The James Beard Awardwinning author describes the collection of enticing and often unexpected recipes as her “pantry and fridge book.”
It’s the casual food she’s accustomed to making for her family and friends, and a true reflection of her cooking repertoire. Renowned for her impeccable and approachable baking books — and past collaborations with Julia Child and French pastry chef Pierre Hermé — Everyday Dorie is Greenspan’s second “cookbook cookbook.”
In contrast to her first, Around My French Table (2010), which focused on her brand of Parisian home cooking, she wrote Everyday Dorie at her home in Westbrook, Conn. (Greenspan divides her time between New York City, Connecticut and Paris.) “Not in a city, not just down the street from a specialty shop or a farmers’ market, but an hour roundtrip from a supermarket,” she says.
“I’m not a fancy cook. I’m not even a fancy baker; I don’t decorate things. If I find a new ingredient, I love to play with it, but at heart I’m pretty down-toearth. But I think that I’m even more basic and more practical here.”
Recipes are excerpted from Everyday Dorie. Reproduced by permission of Rux Martin Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.