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Repertoire: All the Recipes You Need Kindle Edition

by Jessica Battilana (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 145 ratings
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Simple, stunning recipes for home cooks, from the writer of the Repertoire column for the San Francisco Chronicle.

Home cooks don't need dozens of cookbooks or hundreds of recipes. They just need one good book, with about 75 trustworthy, versatile, and above all, delicious recipes that can stand alone or be mixed-and-matched into extraordinary meals.

That's what Repertoire is: Real recipes, from real life, that really work.

After nearly two decades in the kitchen and writing about food, this is the way San Francisco Chronicle writer Jessica Battilana really cooks at home. These are her best recipes, the ones she relies on the most -- for a quick weeknight supper, a special dinner party, when a friend drops by for a drink and a snack, for the chocolate cake that never fails. The knowledge, freedom, and flexibility that comes from cooking these recipes is all you really need in the kitchen.

With a salad for every season, pantry pastas, many meatballs, chewy cookies, and more, Repertoire puts the perfect dish for every occasion within reach.
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"San Francisco Chronicle food columnist Battilana delivers 75 classic recipes in this valuable cookbook, arguing that home cooks don't need a collection of hundreds of recipes to be well-rounded, but a "set of durable, flexible recipes that... form the backbone" of their cooking. --Publisher's Weekly

"Repertoire is a magical book of insanely delicious keeper recipes you can trust with your life. Guard it like it's made of gold." --Samin Nosrat, New York Times bestselling author of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat

"My collection of go-to recipes has grown by a dozen, thanks to Repertoire. Offered up with warmth, confidence, and the gentle authority of a lifelong cook, this book will earn a permanent home on your kitchen counter. From (deceptively doable!) Twice-Baked Magic Souffles to Vietnamese caramel-lacquered Candy Pork(!!) and a straight-up green salad that makes me want to go absolutely nuts with the exclamation points, Battilana is the home cook we all want to be, the kind who makes everyday magic." -- Molly Wizenberg, New York Times bestselling author of A Homemade Life and Delancey

"What every home cook needs in their box of tricks." --Yotam Ottolenghi, New York Times bestselling author of Jerusalem

"Jessica Battilana inspires you to cook beyond her recipes, giving you the confidence to build your own repertoire." --Vivian Howard, New York Times bestselling author of Deep Run Roots

"A modern-day Joy of Cooking. Every kitchen should have one on the shelf." --Amanda Freitag, author of The Chef Next Door

"Ingredient-based cooking, tinged with global flavors yet not fussy, is my favorite type of cooking." --David Lebovitz, author of L'Appart and My Paris Kitchen

"Released this month by Little, Brown and Company, Repertoire is a collection of the author's own tried-and-true recipes, and they offer convincing evidence that a simplified approach doesn't mean uninspired cooking...The best of these recipes all have some smart twist like that--so obviously rewarding, you wonder why you haven't been singing the song that way all along." -Luke Tsai, San Francisco Magazine

About the Author

Jessica Battilana writes the "Repertoire" column for the San Francisco Chronicle and is the author of Corn, from Short Stack Editions. The coauthor of several other cookbooks, her work has appeared in Martha Stewart Living, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Gastronomica, Saveur, Sunset, and multiple editions of The Best Food Writing. A Vermont native, she lives in San Francisco with her wife and children.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B074M783WF
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Little, Brown and Company (April 3, 2018)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 3, 2018
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 355015 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 145 ratings

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Jessica Battilana writes the "Repertoire" column for the San Francisco Chronicle and is the author of Corn, from Short Stack Editions. The coauthor of several other cookbooks, her work has appeared in Martha Stewart Living, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Gastronomica, Saveur, Sunset, and multiple editions of The Best Food Writing. A Vermont native, she lives in San Francisco with her wife and children.

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4.6 out of 5 stars
4.6 out of 5
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It's fun to peek into how another person cooks at home ...
An exciting and strong foundation to build your own "repertoire". Mostly simple recipes with just a couple of challenges thrown in for the average home cook. It's fun to peek into how another person cooks at home and it's great to have them guide you through your own journey in the kitchen. The Hot Dog Fried Rice is nothing short of amazing, much better than anything you'd order in and infinitely customizable.
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Maggie P
5.0 out of 5 stars Has wonderful helpful recipes
Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2024
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I read about this on King Arthur Baking website and I am saver glad that I purchased it. The recipes are tasty, easy to follow and full of good stuff. Love it!
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jennifer hill
5.0 out of 5 stars A delicious collection of recipes for weeknights and beyond.
Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2018
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This cookbook is a must add to your collection. I love to cook and do so every night for my family. I am always on the lookout for new recipes that are easy enough to complete on a weeknight but still fun to make and even better... delicious to eat. This cookbook takes the (repertoire chocolate) cake. Our favorite so far is the Tortilla Soup. She walks you through either breaking up your own chicken and making your own broth - to using store bought broth and a rotisserie chicken. Each recipe is like this, giving you multiple ways to create something delicious.

The photos are beautiful and will inspire you to rattle some pots and pans. The ingredients are things you likely have at home or be able to grab at any grocery store. If there are any exceptions she notes this, explains why she calls for that ingredient and offers substitutions.

One thing that separate's this book from other cookbooks I've read, is that Jessica talks of the chefs, (home and professional), who inspired her recipes - and what she modified to make it her own. I love this! Seeing the origin of a recipe and how it grows. Order the book, your taste buds will thank you.
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Caleb Zigas
5.0 out of 5 stars Delicious Cooking Made Simple for Life
Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2018
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I've been cooking for a long time. And I have a little bit of a thing for cookbooks; mostly because they offer inspiration, or a set of ways of thinking about my kitchen that I haven't thought of before. Having seen Battilana's recipes in the San Francisco Chronicle, I was interested in what a book of her thinking would look like. It has been less than a week with this book and I already know that her recipes are a life that I would love to be able to live. She takes foods and flavors that I love and makes them simple enough to think about cooking for my family. Not as a project, but as a weeknight. Not as something special, but as a means with which to gather around the table with the people I most want to share that table with. There are some things in the book that I'll likely never cook--or it might just be that I don't kids big enough for them matter yet (hot dog fried rice, for instance), but reading through this book, and beginning with some of the recipes is a hint about what's to come for my family. And it's delicious.

So much appreciation to any author who can share that point of view and make it simple to follow. Buy the book, cook the recipes, feed your family and build your repertoire. Each and every element of that process is infinitely worth it.
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Charles Self
4.0 out of 5 stars well done cookbook
Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2019
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My wife liked this book a lot.
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Anthony Bacon
5.0 out of 5 stars A great addition to our collection!
Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2018
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My wife and I own a range of cookbooks ranging from the most basic (here’s what an egg is...) to the most esoteric (an original printing of Salvador Dali’s “Les Dinners de Gala) and this book has slotted into our permanent cookbook collection quite nicely.

It’s great to have a book that I can crack open at 3pm and know that I can find a recipe that I can pull off successfully by dinner time. While I love a good multi day, three trips to the store recipe as much as the next person, Repertoire is filled with delicious and achievable things you can cook and serve and look like a hero without all the blood, sweat, and tears!

The short version : delicious recipes (made two already) that my wife and I cooked successfully. Easy to understand recipes, our kitchen didn’t look like a grenade went off afterwards, and we ate like kings (kings that immediately hit the couch, full and content!)
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E. Marsalic
5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favorite cookbooks that I use again and again!
Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2022
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I bought this cookbook when it published because I liked the author's repertoire concept for home cooks (you don't need to know how to cook everything, you just need a good repertoire). Whenever I'm in a cooking rut, I return to this book and am amazed by how consistently delicious and simple all of the recipes are. A few family favorites include Maine Truck Stop Beans, Sweet Corn Fritters, and the Green Goddess Salad.
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Shenanigans
5.0 out of 5 stars New Favorite Go-To Recipes
Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2020
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I try out new recipes / cuisines each week - both recipes online and from cookbooks - but I always have tried-and-true recipes I fall back on. This cookbook is Battilana’s collection of fall-back recipes and it’s AMAZING.

The recipes aren’t limited to any one culinary region, they’re flexible with variation ideas, photos of special techniques needed (like rolling pretzel rolls or prepping pork saltimbocca) and suggestions of what to serve each dish with. Every recipe I’ve tried has been a winner with consistent results and I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve been asked for both the chocolate chip cookie and greenest green salad recipes.
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Isabella
3.0 out of 5 stars mid cookbook
Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2022
Kinda mid overall in terms of quality of cookbook in my opinion. Some of the recipes looked really good tho
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Rita
4.0 out of 5 stars Great versatile recipes
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 6, 2019
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Bought this as a kindle book and now have bought a hardback as easier to use. Especially good for dressings and family meals, using fresh produce. I have lots of cookery books but keep returning to this one currently.
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