ARGONAUT BOOKS

'Object Lessons' is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. 'Recipe' reveals the surprising lessons that recipes teach, in addition to the obvious instructions on how to prepare a dish or perform a process. These include lessons in hospitality, friendship, community, family and ethnic heritage, tradition, nutrition, precision and order, invention and improvisation, feasting and famine, survival and seduction and love. Reviews Fascinating. . . . [Bloom] explains how recipes unite us, contain lessons about hospitality, and can b...Read More