My Perfect Pantry: 150 Easy Recipes From 50 Essential Ingredients

"The thing about chef books is that usually chefs have a lot of things you don’t — for example, squads of prep cooks, access to specialty ingredients, and hours of time to do nothing but cook. Geoffrey Zakarian has them too, but in this book he doesn’t use them. He sticks with the stuff everybody has — canned beans, pasta, vinegar, jam — and turns them into food everybody wants. In other words: Now there’s no excuse."