Kate Spohn is also the author and illustrator of Turtle and Snake at Work and Turtle and Snake Go Camping.
These collected essays from respected cookbook author and Town and Country food-columnist Villas range from appreciative profiles of American food personages (Craig Claiborne; Chicago restauranteur Jovan Trboyevic) to discourses on cassoulet or fois gras and paeans to The Unsung Sardine or The Lordly Spud. Villas is a civilized writer and a reliable, well-traveled guide; and the recipes that conclude many of the pieces are similarly estimable and considered. Villas is also, however, consistently unsurprising - some might say stuffy, like a BBC chat - and thus perhaps better encountered one piece at a time, in Town and County. For inclusive food and cookery collections. (Kirkus Reviews)