Miriam Ungerer is just a joy to read. The food here isn't necessarily all that cheap (though it's hardly costly). She just gets you thinking about food and cooking in a certain way; you'll find yourself looking at ingredients with a more critical eye--meaning not that you'll reject them, but that you'll start weighing all the possibilities inherent in a cup of rice or an egg. A book not just to cook from but to sit down and actually read.

Lynn Siprelle, Editor