Lynne Rossetto Kasper

Lynne Rossetto Kasper has won numerous awards as host of "The Splendid Table," including two James Beard Foundation Awards (1998, 2008) for Best National Radio Show on Food, three Clarion Awards (2007, 2008, 2009) from Women in Communication and a Gracie Allen Award in 2000 for Best Syndicated Talk Show. Lynne is a respected authority on food, having published three bestselling books: The Splendid Table, The Italian Country Table and The Splendid Table's How To Eat Supper, which was co-authored with producer Sally Swift in 2008. Lynne's syndicated column, "How To Eat Supper," appears in 700 newspapers. "The Splendid Table" can be heard on more than 200 public radio stations nationwide.

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Why we don't make pie all the time is a shame. It's the best dish for tight budgets, for people who love to eat, for picky eaters, and for using up whatever you've got around.
Bite into a great cherry and get an amazing hit of sugar, sweet almond and squeaky-plump fruit. When the cherry is one of the especially sexy varieties, you taste all that, along with lingering flickers of spice and honey. Trust me, this is not over the top. The quality is out there.
On our show May 19, 2012, I talked about how one of those improvised waste-not-want-not suppers came about -- a pretty good one at that. So here's the story and a shorthand guide to improvising your own recipes from what's on hand.
Who can you trust when it comes to cooking from a blog or investing in a cookbook? You should know, because a bad recipe -- one that is poorly written, or worse yet, untested -- can make you feel like a failure.
Some of us collect fantasy kitchens to roll around in our imaginations. We spin them into dreamy scenarios of the lives we want to live, and of the people we want to be.