Jam Today is just my kind of book - one of those rare trackings of the healthy human animal rustling about the kitchen then settling in at the table. In addition to some great meals made to satisfy desires, needs, whims or simply to make use of what's at hand, Jam Today is a complete pleasure to read.'' - Deborah Madison, author of Local Flavors and What We Eat When We Eat Alone ''the spirit of M.F.K. Fisher surely hovers over this book, amused and beguiled by a cook whose prose has the same artful composure, and whose cooking possesses a similar innate sense of style. I believe that good cooks are born, not made - but steep your culinary self long enough in the pages of Jam Today and it might just be born again.'' - John Thorne, author of Outlaw Cook and Mouth Wide Open...... It's one person cooking with what she has, in her own way. It's one person's diary of some really swell meals: meals alone, meals with a loved one, meals with friends, even meals for the dog. There's even a chapter on delicious things you can do with turnips, among other things. It's about cooking in your own way, with what you have, for your own happiness and that of the people around you. After all, happiness has got to start somewhere.