This cookbook is a sort of family portrait – lots of familiar flavors, not too spicy but definitely eccentric in places. If you ever visited a family function of ours, that's just how the menu reads. Welcome to our homes. There's some football on TV and a Miller in the refrigerator with your name on it. The air's turned off, it's humid and there are kids underfoot. The pool looks like a good place to visit. The assorted cats, dogs and parakeets are eager to jump on you, lick you or otherwise greet you. Come and join us.
-- Robertson Adams, 1988