Cookbook Review

Fresh and fun ideas fill 'Splendid Table'

"The Splendid Table's How to Eat Supper" is full of instructive recipes such as plumped ginger-caramel shrimp.

By Susan Chang

Globe Correspondent / May 7, 2008

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I've spent a week trying to figure out why I so like "The Splendid Table's How to Eat Supper," by Lynn Rossetto Kasper and Sally Swift, host and producer, respectively, of the popular National Public Radio show. I keep suspecting it's for the wrong reasons, like the book's typeface, a bouncy mix of quirky-yet-legible fonts; the way the recipes are ... (Full article: 554 words)