All About Dinner: Simple Meals, Expert Advice

"All About Dinner is a classic category book – salads, soups, fish, vegetables, meats, sweets – with a strict dozen in each category. True to form, Molly Stevens offers the completely basic (“Simplest Tossed Green Salad”) right alongside the unexpected and charming ("Celery Salad with Apricots and Candied Almonds”). As the title suggests, expert tips abound here – “Salt early and salt often!” – in sidebars, headnotes, essays. But even if you jump right in and make “Spice-Rubbed Flank Steak with Sweet Potatoes and Chipotle Aïoli” with no dress rehearsal, you can trust it’ll still be first-time-friendly and company-ready. Absolutely foolproof, sometimes surprising."