The Food Lover's Guide to

Super Simple Cooking

By Ann Taylor Pittman
July 09, 2012

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Super Simple Cooking

PHOTO: IAIN BAGWELL

Simple food, for its own sake, can be a snooze. The holy grail is simple food
that has an essential, aha! deliciousness that gets to the soul of the
ingredients and the dish. Some cooks have a gift for it. But the gift can be
learned. Not everything is about shortcuts: Sometimes a special splurge is the
key. Not everything is about speed: Sometimes careful prep makes a dish
sing. Here are 25 tricks for successful simplicity.