Over two hundred recipes from appetizers to complete one dish meals. Includes special sections devoted to hints about necessary equipment and how not to have too much; emergency supplies for unexpected guests, changed plans, and even power failure; herbs, spices, seasonings, what kinds to have on hand and how to use them.

Readers of Gladys Taber's widely popular books about the good life at Stillmeadow Farm in Connecticut and Still Cove on Cape Cod will know to what an admirable degree she is mistress of her kitchen and how thoroughly she enjoys good food, both plain and fancy. Here are over 300 of her favorite recipes that will be a welcome addition to any kitchen.

Essays for each month of the year at the author's Connecticut farm house.

The author offers kitchen-tested recipes for traditional country dishes as well as exotic dishes from other lands