Hunting and Gathering: Plenty Hot, but Plenty Happy
By Lisa Barlow
It was beastly hot in NYC yesterday. By the time the mercury hit 100 degrees, the cat had tried to climb into the open refrigerator and we were all collapsed in the back yard like Dali’s dripping clocks. With company coming in a few hours, I wasthisclose to offering popsicles to our guests instead of dinner.
But the glorious new cookbook Plenty had just arrived in my mailbox and it was as if a fresh cool breeze had found me limp in the backyard and blew me back into the kitchen.
Plenty is a summer blockbuster of a cookbook. Gorgeously illustrated with pictures of sumptuously photogenic food, I sat down and thumbed through every page before deciding that anything I cooked was going to hit the spot.