An Everlasting Meal

Cooking with Economy and Grace

By: Tamar Adler, Alice Waters - introduction

Narrated by: Tamar Adler

In An Everlasting Meal, Tamar Adler has written a book that “reads less like a cookbook than like a recipe for a delicious life” (New York magazine).

In this meditation on cooking and eating, Tamar Adler weaves philosophy and instruction into approachable lessons on feeding ourselves well. An Everlasting Meal demonstrates the implicit frugality in cooking. In essays on forgotten skills such as boiling, suggestions for what to do when cooking seems like a chore, and strategies for preparing, storing, and transforming ingredients for a week’s worth of satisfying, delicious meals, Tamar reminds us of the practical pleasures of eating. She explains what cooks in the world’s great kitchens know: that the best meals rely on the ends of the meals that came before them. With that in mind, she shows how we often throw away the bones, skins, and peels we need to make our food both more affordable and better. She also reminds readers that almost all kitchen mistakes can be remedied. Summoning respectable meals from the humblest ingredients, Tamar breathes life into the belief that we can start cooking from wherever we are, with whatever we have.

An empowering, indispensable work, An Everlasting Meal is an elegant testimony to the value of cooking.

1st cookbook that actually taught me to cook

I loved the audiobook so much I bought a hardcopy, too. I have always considered myself a foodie and enjoyed cooking, but have struggled to meal plan, shop, and use up my groceries before they spoil. And since Covid hit, I have been blowing my budget on disappointing delivery. This book has changed everything for me. Tamar’s words and philosophy are both inspiring and accessible. She has awakened a joy, ease, creativity, confidence, and conscientiousness in my approach to cooking and life. Bottom line - I am saving money on food, eating better than ever, and having fun doing it.

Delicious

Loved It. Author/Narrator was perfect t!! I would definitely recommend. I want to listen again.

If words were nourishment...

Tamar Adler reminded me of why I am drawn to cooking in primal urges, an abundance of love, and the desire to share. Her words on the page as read by her come to life in ways that brought me to tears, made me smile, and forced a few public outbursts of laughter... I cannot recommend this book enough... ❤️👊🤘

Cooking philosophy, then a cookbook

Lovely cookbook, but narration has strange affectations, accents, and pauses. I wish Tamara handed the narration to a narrator who would be more neutral in their reading.

wonderful

wonderful to listen to great voice.perfect with little listen ears ( only half way thru )