The Art of Cooking for One (or Two)
Will be published approx. on 19. November 2026
Book
Hardback
168 pages
978-1-63226-164-9 (ISBN)
Description
Even when you're cooking for yourself, healthy, simple, and delicious meals are within reach.
Ronald Johnson was a self-taught professional chef and caterer whose many cookbooks are among the best for home cooks with busy lives who need simple recipes that always work.
Even if you have always disliked cooking for yourself, in THE ART OF COOKING FOR ONE, Johnson's helpful approach will allow you to discover the true joy of cooking for one.
Why not treat yourself to a feast? Who better to serve than yourself? "Make culinary hay while the sun still shines down each day," as Ron advises in the Introduction.
This delightful and insightful cookbook is full of wit and often playful opinions about cooking, eating, and living. Known as an extraordinary experimental poet as well as an accomplished chef, RJ's personality seeps through every page and will keep you entertained as you dine by candlelight with just your shadow for company.
Each part of THE ART OF COOKING FOR ONE presents simple, wholesome, and delicious dishes, using readily available, affordable ingredients and reducing unnecessary waste. And he encourages us to cut corners as needed; if the season is wrong for fresh vegetables, for instance, the author suggests workarounds that will be equally satisfying. Johnson's generosity and spirit shines through every page, reassuring us that we are capable of making great things to eat, and deserving of the bounty.
"Go ahead and use a package stuffing mix," he gently consoles us. "No one is perfect." But the meals you cook from this collection will be.
Ronald Johnson was a self-taught professional chef and caterer whose many cookbooks are among the best for home cooks with busy lives who need simple recipes that always work.
Even if you have always disliked cooking for yourself, in THE ART OF COOKING FOR ONE, Johnson's helpful approach will allow you to discover the true joy of cooking for one.
Why not treat yourself to a feast? Who better to serve than yourself? "Make culinary hay while the sun still shines down each day," as Ron advises in the Introduction.
This delightful and insightful cookbook is full of wit and often playful opinions about cooking, eating, and living. Known as an extraordinary experimental poet as well as an accomplished chef, RJ's personality seeps through every page and will keep you entertained as you dine by candlelight with just your shadow for company.
Each part of THE ART OF COOKING FOR ONE presents simple, wholesome, and delicious dishes, using readily available, affordable ingredients and reducing unnecessary waste. And he encourages us to cut corners as needed; if the season is wrong for fresh vegetables, for instance, the author suggests workarounds that will be equally satisfying. Johnson's generosity and spirit shines through every page, reassuring us that we are capable of making great things to eat, and deserving of the bounty.
"Go ahead and use a package stuffing mix," he gently consoles us. "No one is perfect." But the meals you cook from this collection will be.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Westport
United States
Product notice
Paper over boards
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-63226-164-9 (9781632261649)
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Person
Ronald Johnson was best known as an experimental poet, with books including The Book of the Green Man, Valley of the Many-Colored Grasses, RAD IOS, and his master work, ARK. He worked for twenty-five years as a chef and caterer in San Francisco in addition to occasional teaching stints. He was the author of the cookbooks The American Table (1984, reprinted 2000), Southwestern Cooking: New and Old (1985), Simple Fare (1989), and Company Fare (1991). On his return to Topeka, Johnson worked as a cookie baker at Ward-Meade Park. His last volume of poems, The Shrubberies, was inspired by the gardens there. He died in 1998 in Kansas.
Content
CONTENTS
-Soup of the Evening
-Meals Light & Easy
-Candlelit Dinners
-Accompaniments & Condiments
-Sweets in Secret
-Food in Little Houses
-Soup of the Evening
-Meals Light & Easy
-Candlelit Dinners
-Accompaniments & Condiments
-Sweets in Secret
-Food in Little Houses