REPERTOIRE

Simple, stunning recipes for home cooks, from the writer of the "Repertoire" column for the San Francisco Chronicle.

This is the perfect book for the home cook: real recipes, from real life, that really work. San Francisco Chronicle writer Jessica Battilana spent nearly two decades cooking and writing about food, and she's boiled down her wealth of knowledge and experience into 75 trustworthy, versatile, and unfailingly delicious recipes. 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.


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.