If you're a food lover with a secret file of best-loved recipes and you like real food from real kitchens, it's time to meet Karyl Bannister, the creator of America's favorite home-cooking newsletter, COOK & TELL, and her far-flung subscribers.
With a no-nonsense approach, Bannister has chosen her personal favorites and those of her readers. From the elegant to the just plain delicious, COOK & TELL contains recipes for dining duos, fast family suppers, old-fashioned Sunday dinners, holiday celebrations, and more. Filled with folksy anecdotes from Bannister and her COOK & TELL contingent, the book is like an agreeable chat and recipe swap with an old friend.

""Karyl Bannister's book gives me recipes I want, practical tips I need, and stories that connect me with the larger community of real, everyday cooks."" - Pam Anderson

""Cook and Tell contains a bounty of honest recipes for dishes real people like to prepare for friends and family.  Beyond good things to eat, it contains a fetching group portrait of America’s true foodies – not trend-setters or celebrity chefs, but real people who worry about making tender pork chops for supper and moist chocolate cake for birthday parties."" - Jane and Michael Stern

""Cook & Tell features simple and very good recipes, food I would like to eat, with an occasional burst of genius."" — Jasper White

""The creative recipes and passionate foodie dialogue in Karyl Bannister's Cook & Tell are like a window on the soul of American home cooking."" — Gene Burns, host ""Dining Around"" KGO Radio, San Francisco

""Cook & Tell is a chatty 20-year-old newsletter written and illustrated by Karyl Bannister. Now it's also a cookbook (Houghton Mifflin, $22). Bannister and her subscribers aren't afraid of prepared foods, such as Bisquick and readymade pie crust, they love frying, sugar, and cheese. Everything has a warm, neighborly quality."" - Sheryl Julian Boston Globe

For genuine contemporary American home cooking, one need look no further than Bannister's Cook & Tell.
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