In the Kitchen With a Good Appetite ─ 150 Recipes and Stories About the Food You Love

A James Beard Award winner and New York Times food columnist offers an inviting collection of stories and recipes organized into such quirky chapters as Things With Cheese, It Tastes Like Chicken and more, in a book that includes such dishes as Roasted Spiced Cauliflower and Almonds and Baked Camembert With Walnut Crumble and Ginger Marmalade.

Melissa Clark, a James Beard Foundation award winner, writes about cuisine, wine, travel for numerous publications, including theNew York Times (where she writes the enormously popular "A Good Appetite" Dining Section column),Bon Appetit, Food & Wine, and Martha Stewart. Her work has also appeared inBest Food Writing 2007, and she is a regular guest on the nationally broadcast NPR'sThe Takeaway. Clark has written 22 cookbooks, including Braise with Chef Daniel Boulud;The Last Course with former Gramercy Tavern pastry chef Claudia Fleming;The Deen Family Cookbook with Paula Deen; and The Skinny: How to Fit into Your Little Black Dress Forever. Clark was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, where she now lives with her husband and daughter.