“These essays are warm and generous, as are Zinn Fromm’s recipes and cooking advice. You'll find everything here, from baking for a Nobel Prize winner to courting a kidnapper; mastering a mousse soufflé to roasting a chicken in milk. Fromm writes about life with tenderness and tenacity, and about food with a devotion and sensuality that will inspire even the most kitchen-phobic among us to bolt for our sautéepans. If food is food is love, Fromm depicts cooking as even lovelier.”