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Barbarians at the Plate

by Marialisa Calta

Dinners and diningMake-ahead cookingQuick and easy cooking

Veteran food writer and columnist Marialisa Calta offers advice, strategies, and recipes from families across the country, addressing the peculiar challenges and delights of enjoying dinner as a family. Part cookbook, part survival manual, part humor book, part voyeuristic peek into our neighbors' kitchens, Barbarians at the Plate is a field guide to an all-too-endangered species these days: the family meal.

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Book data: Open Library