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Hello Everyone! If you received a message from Amazon about my book being delayed, it's actually good news! Due to the tremendous number of pre-orders on Amazon, my publisher pushed the pub date of my book back a few weeks. We needed to make sure that books would be available in bookstores and specialty retailers across the country, and they just needed a little more time to accomplish this. I appreciate your patience while you wait for your copy of  The Modern Menu   to arrive. It'll be worth the wait!   In the meantime, I will continue to post stories and recipes from 'The Modern Menu' here, so check back often for those.  Thanks so much for your support! Love,  Kim  

Here is a little sneak peek into one of the recipes and photographs you will find in my new cookbook, ' 'The Modern Menu '. The recipes all follow my usual, simple, straightforward style. Lots of flavor, not a lot of fuss. The stunning photographs found in the book were taken by award-winning photographer and filmmaker, Andrew Zuckerman .  The holidays may be over but the season for squash and root vegetables definitely isn't. I wa nted to share this amazingly magical flavor combination:  Gingered Butternut Squash and Sweet Potatoes. It�s a flavor match-up that always surprises people when they first taste it. If you've been following the blog, you'll know by now I have a bit of a love affair with these ingredients, but I just can�t get enough of the sharpness of the ginger when added to the creaminess of the butternut squash and sweet potatoes - it's a wonderful contrast.  I like to make this in the morning, turn off the oven, and leave it in there all...

2013 is going to be a very great year. I�m very excited to announce that I have finished my first cookbook and it is being published this spring! The Modern Menu: Simple. Beautiful. Kosher. is the result of countless hours in the kitchen, time I�ve spent with some of you reading and some by myself, lost in my own world. I feel like I could fill several books with all the recipes I can�t live without, but because I had to control myself, I settled on the selected recipes you�ll find in my book. Something that I kept in mind while writing the book was a familiar motto that guides my cooking, especially when I�m making something up as I go along: Less is more. Simple is best. I�ve split the book into seasonal menus with their own themes from �Crisp� which highlights the role of texture in cooking to �Vibrant� which focuses on bringing out the colors of various dishes, and you�ll just have to consider pre-ordering by clicking here   for your own shelf to see the other tricks I ha...

I made this soup almost by mistake a few days ago when my whole family was coming to visit. It was cold outside, and I was too tired to leave the apartment and go to the supermarket. I opened the fridge and stared at a variety of tomatoes: 2 large beefsteak, moldy/softened tomatoes, a Tupperware of sliced tomatoes (leftovers from the bagel & lox platter I ordered the day before), a box of colorful cherry tomatoes...I just had to come up with something...and in fact, it was easier than I thought. I literally just threw every tomato item I had in the apartment into a large pot (including sun-dried tomatoes in oil), and the result was spectacular. I was going to serve with grilled cheese sandwiches, but at the last minute, I decided to cut the grilled cheese sandwiches into bite-sized croutons, and this is what really got me the rave reviews...So easy, so simple, so good.  Rustic Tomato Soup with Grilled Cheese Croutons Makes 1 large pot, enough for 10 people, but can be frozen in...