Nina Caplan

Wine and food writer

Recipes for the Passionate Cook is the subtitle of this book, and Wolfert isn’t kidding. Still, if you haven’t time to make any of these recipes (and for Wolfert, Slow-Roasted Stuffed Tomatoes, at around 4 hours, is knocking together a quick dinner), just sit down and read them: Wolfert is the antidote to dinner in a dash, fast food, microwave meals and all other such grim modern methods of saving time eating. (For what? What could possibly be more important than dinner?) Her Pork and Orange-Flavoured Beans are one of the tastiest dishes I’ve ever made; they’re even better reheated she says, or in other words, an extra day is an advantage.

Daniel Boulud

Chef

Aleksandra Mojsilovic

Blogger