Jam today too: the revolution will not be catered

279 Pages·2014·2.435 MB·English

by  Davies, Tod

COOKING / Essays “A book to be savored.”—Deborah Madison,
Today the kitchen, tomorrow the world! author of The New Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone
“Jam Today Too is about cooking in real life, including cooking around de-
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—Deborah Madison, author of The New Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone
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“Waiter, there’s philosophy in my soup! But Tod’s ruminations on life, love,
disaster, friendship, and home always find their way back to real, practical
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advice about how to cook with what you have, wherever your kitchen may be.
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Laughing with Tod at her loves and disasters will make you laugh at your own,
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—Anna Thomas, author of Love Soup and The New Vegetarian Epicure THE REVOLUTION WILL

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“How refreshing, a food memoir that’s actually about food. No tattooed chefs.
No Nordic kitchen rock stars. Just a woman facing her stove and finding out
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who she is through the food she cooks. Reading Jam Today Too, you just
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might find out who you are, too.” —Tori Ritchie, Tuesday Recipe
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“Chatty, wise, and terrifically useful, Tod Davies’ second serving of Jam makes
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disaster delicious and success the stuff of everyday life. What a treat to read

and eat.” —Kate Lebo, author of A Commonplace Book of Pie
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Featuring advice for omnivores and vegetarians alike about how to eat (and o
what to prepare) to survive natural disasters, cross-country moves, bereave-
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ment, holidays-gone-wrong, and even a spontaneous picnic, Jam Today Too
provides all the ingredients for daily feeding of mind, body, and soul.
TOD DAVIES
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Praise for the
Jam Today
Series
“Delightful . . . written by a woman who values food, family and friends.”
—Shelf Awareness
“Davies’s creative joy in food and the world around her is infectious.”
—Bookslut
“Jam Today, whose title is culled from a line in one of Lewis Carroll’s Alice
in Wonderland books, isn’t so much a cookbook as it is ruminations on food
preparation and living right.” —Cascadia Weekly
“Tod Davies takes a physicist’s approach to social change . . . like the minds
behind a particle accelerator, her primary goal is to cause collisions.”
—Portland Mercury
“Just my kind of book . . . In addition to some great meals made to satisfy
desires, needs, whims or simply to make use of what’s at hand, Jam Today is a
complete pleasure to read.” —Deborah Madison, author of
The New Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone
“The spirit of M.F.K. Fisher surely hovers over this book, amused and beguiled
by a cook whose prose has the same artful composure, and whose cooking
possesses a similar innate sense of style.”
—John Thorne, author of Serious Pig: An American Cook in Search
of His Roots and Mouth Wide Open: A Cook and His Appetite
“These days we understand that exercise is its own reward. The effects of
exercise make you want to exercise again. Cooking, when it’s done regularly
and so loses the ‘performance’ aspect, has the same kind of multiplier effect.
It takes us to a place that’s just being, just doing. Jam Today Too takes us to
that place, between our so basic need for and love of food; and our need for
and love of nourishing each other. Davies’ daily inspirations about what to
eat show us how home cooking becomes its own reward.”
—Charlene Rollins, Chef/Owner of New Sammy’s Cowboy Bistro
and three-time James Beard Foundation Awards semifinalist for Best
Northwest Regional Chef
“Tod Davies, in Jam Today Too, teaches us how to have fun with food without
throwing it. But, if you must, please throw this good stuff at me.”
—Vernon Rollins, Sommelier/Owner at New Sammy’s Cowboy Bistro,
one of Food & Wine magazine’s “50 Most Amazing Wine Experiences”
“I’d just like a refill, please. A second cool, tall glass of Jam.”
—Maggie Ruggiero, Food Editor/Stylist for Gather Journal
Jam Today
Too
THE REVOLUTION WILL
NOT BE CATERED
TOD DAVIES
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Contents
Foreword: Still Cooking v
One: Food for Disasters 1
Two: Food for Grief 35
Three: Food for Home 51
Four: Food for Friends Too 107
Five: Food for Feasts 145
Six: Food for Oneself 173
Seven: We Are How We Eat 201
Eight: Food for Thought 219
Epilogue: My Dear Paella Recipe 239
Once again, for Alex,
the Beloved Vegetarian Husband
And in memory of Laurel Hansen,
great cook and great friend
“I hope very much that people will again make
things, cook and bake for themselves, and for one
another. Life is, after all, more real that way, more
nourishing to body and spirit as well.”
—Joseph Wechsberg
JAM TODAY TOO
List of Recipes
Chapter One: Food for Disasters
Calamari Sandwiches with Braised Escarole and Salsa 10
Pizza with One Bowl and a Pan 15
Dried Tomatoes 16
Tuna in a Toaster Oven 19
Zucchini with Soy Sauce and Wasabi 20
Single Best Way to Cook Beets 22
Kale Salad 22
Kale, Potato, Anchovy and Tuna Salad 25
Flood Soup 28
Chicken Liver Mousse 32
Chapter Two: Food for Grief
The Perfect Neighbor Meal Split-Pea Soup 39
Twice Baked Potatoes 41
Skirt Steak 45
Candied Walnuts 48
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Recipes
Chapter Three: Food for Home
Potatoes with Garlic-Infused Cream and Nutmeg 53
Barbequed Sausage Sandwich / Barbequed Portobello
Mushroom Sandwich 56
Cabbage Cilantro Slaw 59
Sautéed Cabbage 60
Caldo Verde 61
Tuscan Potato Soup 62
Pickled Carrots 65
Baked Acorn Squash 68
Spicy Squash Seeds 68
Okra, Japanese Style 70
The World’s Simplest Hollandaise Sauce 73
Green Bean and Potato Salad with Anchoiäde,
Basil, and Cherry Tomatoes 77
Salt-Grilled Trout 82
Harissa-Marinated Shrimp with Tomatoes
and Spicy Spring Greens 85
Friendly Brown Rice 88
Garlic Fried Brown Rice with Bacon and Eggs 92
Retro Quiche 95
Retro Green Beans with Bacon 99
Creamed Spinach 101
Unfrozen Peas 103
Edamame 103
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