Miss Dahl's Voluptuous Delights: Recipes for Every Season, Mood and Appetite »

Sophie Dahl began her career as a model, but cooking has always been her first love. She was contributing editor for Men's Vogue for three years and now works for, among others, both the U.K. and U.S. editions of Vogue, the Guardian, Waitrose Food Illustrated, and The Times. After an eight-year sojourn in New York, Sophie now lives in London.

Food is meant to be enjoyed, and Sophie Dahl would have it no other way. Growing up in a family of true food lovers, she began cooking at a young age and never looked back. Miss Dahl's Voluptuous Delights presents nearly one hundred of her tried-and-true recipes, organized around the four seasons and using the freshest ingredients available. Accented with her stories about how she came to know these foods and why she loves them, Miss Dahl's Voluptuous Delights provides a complete picture of what a meal should provide. From lemon-scented summer stews, to crisply burnished pies, to salads and soups for breezy lunches, to decadent desserts, Sophie Dahl cooks food that is indulgent, delicious, and wholesome.

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Dahl, a former model and current contributor to Vogue, the Guardian, and the Times, organizes recipes by season and offers simple instructions and helpful hints for beginners. Her first cookbook features Indian dishes like Indian Sweet Potato Pancakes and My Dad's Chicken Curry, soups such as Spinach Barley Soup and Peasant Soup (with carrots, celery, kale, and cannellini beans), and Christmas recipes for Cornbread Stuffing and Christmas Red Cabbage. Part autobiography and part cookbook, this should appeal to readers who want to feel as though they know the chef.