Plenty #2 — Berkshires Author Alana Chernila Launches “The Homemade Kitchen”

September 18, 2015
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Practical guiding principles point to cooking and eating habits that make sense for families.

Berkshires author Alana Chernila launches her second book, "The Homemade Kitchen: Recipes for Cooking with Pleasure" in October, 2015; submitted photo.
Berkshires author Alana Chernila launches her second book, “The Homemade Kitchen: Recipes for Cooking with Pleasure” in October, 2015; submitted photo.

Alana Chernila has been piecing together a philosophy about food at least as early as becoming a mom. Her first contacts with preparing meals, often with vegetables she helped raise, goes back to her own childhood. Through writing about her journey in the culinary realm, Alana has crystallized her experiences interacting with ingredients into some common sense grains of kitchen wisdom. With “The Homemade Kitchen: Recipes for Cooking with Pleasure,” (Clarkson Potter, 2015) these precepts are offered to help the entire process of food preparation and enjoying simpler and, well, more pleasurable.

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October 18, 3:30 p.m.
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Those readers familiar with her writing at her own blog, Eating from the Ground Up, will appreciate that her easy reassuring style translates just as well in this volume as it did in her first work, “The Homemade Pantry: 101 Foods You Can Stop Buying and Start Making” (Clarkson Potter, 2012). Both books feature the mouthwatering photography of Hudson Valley artist Jennifer May.

"The Homemade Kitchen: Recipes for Cooking with Pleasure" is available a local bookstores and from Amazon.com
The Homemade Kitchen: Recipes for Cooking with Pleasure” is available a local bookstores and from Amazon.com

 

 

 

Those readers familiar with her writing at her own blog, Eating from the Ground Up, will appreciate that her easy reassuring style translates just as well in this volume as it did in her first work, “The Homemade Pantry: 101 Foods You Can Stop Buying and Start Making.” Both books feature the mouthwatering photography of Hudson Valley artist Jennifer May.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alana’s description of “The Homemade Kitchen” —

The Homemade Kitchen: Recipes for Cooking with Pleasure is a book about why I cook. It’s about how every time we cook and eat, we have a choice about how to shape our lives and relate to the work of our days. But maybe most of all, it’s about how to let go of the guilt and stress that can make it’s way to the kitchen and the dinner table. It’s a book about throwing out rules and judgement and whatever else might be weighing you down in the kitchen. It’s a book about joy and food, and how it’s time to reconnect the bond between the two.

Looking for even more recipes? Be sure to check out Alana’s first book!

Alana's first effort, "The Homemade Pantry, 101 Foods You Can Stop Buying and Start Making," has become a top go-to for frugal, creative cooks.
Alana’s first effort, “The Homemade Pantry,
101 Foods You Can Stop Buying and Start Making
,” has become a top go-to for frugal, creative cooks.

 

 

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