Silver palate cookbook

Where prunes meet capers, and chicken meets your mother's dinner table.

Thirty years ago, when I was a newlywed living and working in Boston, Julee Rosso and Sheila Lukins’s The Silver Palate Cookbook was the “it” cookbook. Just as in 1961, when Julia…

Can influential cookbooks of yore hold up in a drastically different culinary era?

The Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook

Pasta Puttanesca ~ The Silver Palate Cookbook. One of my quickie standards for 30 years now!

Published in 1982, it brought verve to entertaining and taught a generation of American cooks to trust in bold flavors, fresh herbs, and the joys of improvisation

This quick and easy recipe comes from the Silver Palate Cookbook. I first made it more than twenty years ago, and can still remember the excitement of my then work colleagues when I brought it in f…

When life gives you rotten bananas, make banana bread. In fact, seek a copy of the 1980's best selling Silver Palate Cookbook, turn to page 305, and be ready for the world's best banana bread recipe. This is an all butter quick bread with a bit of whole wheat flour thrown in to give it a moist, hearty texture and a satisfying bite. So beloved is this bread at Weston Table that we intentionally buy extra bananas in hopes that someone in our test kitchen will notice and bake up a nutty…

Thirty-five years later and still slaying.