Award-winning cookbook author Liana Krissoff presents an evocatively written ode to home cooking with all the guidance you need to perfect your own easy-to-master family recipes. Trusted cookbook author Liana Krissoff is back. Previously, she showed you fresh, clever canning recipes; modern slow-cooker recipes; and easy vegetarian crowd-pleasers. Now, Krissoff brings you In Praise of Home Cooking?fit for anyone looking to perfect the staples, parents who want to whip up something tasty, curious kids who want to learn grandma?s secret recipes, and everyone who has gotten tired of those absurdly labor-intensive recipes. To Krissoff, developing resourceful habits and perfecting uncomplicated dishes??a pot of fluffy rice and one of creamy beans, a seared steak and a colorful salad??are integral to living with great pleasure, and so she shows us the way. Krissoff explores these simple but vital subjects?ranging from how to start a fire in a clearing in the woods to making a simple but celebration-worthy layer cake, and even remembering to make a mug of hot cocoa just because it?s the first cold, gray day of fall?reminding us that appreciating these moments is key to a life well-lived.