Back to the Family: Food Tastes Better Shared with the Ones You Love

By Art Smith

Book Overview

"Back to the Family" is a companion to Art Smith's "New York Times" bestseller and James Beard award-winning cookbook, "Back to the Table." Smith is the personal chef to Oprah Winfrey and a contributing editor to "O Magazine." This book encourages readers to better understand the importance of valuing the ones you love through cooking and communing with food. Most importantly "Back to the Family" stresses the importance of recognizing old food traditions (family recipes, meals, memories, etc.) and the equal importance of creating new and healthier food traditions. More than 150 recipes and more than 140 photographs provide a wonderful evocative eating and reading experience.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1401602894
• ISBN13: 9781401602895
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.8" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Great Ideas

I love the book. It has great ideas. I could do without the thousand pages of family style photos in the kitchen, a few would be nice, but let's not go overboard. I love the simple recipes for stock, dough, pizza, salsa, etc.and being able to create healthier versions of those by controlling the salt and fat content. I also love some the flavors such as the Tequila Lime shrimp. The description says how "wonderful it is hot off the grill", but the recipe says to cook it in a pan. An additional side note says you can grill it or bake it as well, but only gives direction for baking. Sure, I can figure it out, but not having to guess would be easier. Shrimp cooks quickly and it is easy to overcook and I've never been able to master the right temp & time. But, my major pet peeve is when beautiful photographs of recipes and the actual recipe ingredients are different. An example of this is the goat cheese ball that in the photo appears to be dipped in chopped up green herbs,but the recipe doesn't call for any green herbs. Sure, I can be creative and figure it out. I noticed omitted herbs in some other recipes as well.

Great addition to any home!

Great cookbook. I gave one to my son and my daughter as gifts. They just love it.