Katie Workman - The Mom 100 Cookbook: 100 Recipes Every Mom Needs in Her Back Pocket

Katie Workman is the founding editor in chief of Cookstr.com, the website that features recipes by well-known chefs and cookbook writers. She writes about food and cooking for websites and magazines, including The Huffington Post, The Daily Beast, AOL Food, KitchenDaily.com, AARP.com, New York Magazine, The Boston Globe, and more. She sits on the board of City Harvest, New Yorks leading food rescue nonprofit, and lives with her husband and two children in New York City. Learn more at www.themom100.com.

100 Recipes Every Mom Needs in Her Back Pocket

Photographs by Todd Coleman

Workman Publishing New York

Copyright 2012 by Katie Workman

All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproducedmechanically, electronically, or by any other means, including photocopyingwithout written permission of the publisher. Published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Limited.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.
eISBN 9780761171249

Cover design by Raquel Jaramillo
Cover and interior photographs by Todd Coleman
Additional photography: p. xxiv: left Nattika/Shutterstock; right Photolinc/Shutterstock

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For Jack and Charlie and Gary, my loves

Lucky, lucky, lucky. The acknowledgments are my absolute favorite part of the book to write.

Suzanne Rafer is my brilliant and amazing editor. When I was growing up, loving cookbooks, reading them at bedtime, it was Suzannes cookbooks that were stacked up on my night table. I taught myself how to cook from the Silver Palate cookbooks, and admired everything about anything her hands touched from stem to stern. When she said to me a couple of years ago, I think you should write a cookbook, my heart nearly busted. I might not have done this if it werent for her, and she certainly made it better and also made it fun. Erin Klabunde, her assistant, was a lovely, bright note punctuating the whole process.

Raquel Jaramillo, who designed this book, is an extraordinary and talented person in every way, and if I could thank her in song I would, but that would suck because I cant sing.

The people at Workman could have their own page of acknowledgments. I worked in publishing for years (and at Workman for several years">page of acknowledgments. I worked in publishing for years (and at Workman for several years), so I know exactly what all of these excellent people are doing behind the scenes, and they need to all come out and take a bow: Selina Meere and Rebecca Carlisle, for being the wind beneath my publicity wings; David Schiller, for being brilliant and insightful in many capacities; the lovely Anne Kerman, for orchestrating the photography; Jessica Wiener, marketing smartypants; and Marissa Hussey, Internet whisperer. The unsung heroes who make sure the ts are crossed, the is dotted, and that acknowledgments is spelled correctly are Barbara Mateer and Beth Levy, with the aid of Barbara Peragine and Jarrod Dyer in the type department. And the way the book looks and feels in your hands is due to the production skill of Julie Primavera.

Admiration and appreciation also go to core members of the Workman team, Jenny Mandel, Pat Upton, Walter Weintz, Suzie Bolotin, Bob Miller, Page Edmunds, and the entire sales and marketing teams.

I e-mailed the skilled food editor and photographer of Saveur magazine, Todd Coleman, for thoughts on who might shoot this book. He e-mailed back, Ill shoot your book. I e-mailed What? Really? And shoot the book he did, with the extraordinary help of Ben Mims, Hilary Merzbacher, Judy Haubert, Monica Floirendo, Lauren Utvitch, Alex Saggiomo, and Maxime Iattoni, led by the wonderful and organized Saveur kitchen director, Kellie Evans. I will remember the crazy-fun days of our shoot for the rest of my life. Who knew there was such a thing as shoot beers?

A huge thank you to the smart cookies at Bullfrog & Baum, in particular Pamela Spiegel.

We all have people who influence our lives, and sometimes believe in us more than we believe in ourselves. Pam Krauss was my first boss, and to this day someone whose friendship, ideas, and opinions mean more to me than I can say. Jennifer Baum was there during every major life decision, and said, Do it, Ill be there for you. Dana Cowin made and makes me feel like anything is possible. Catherine Skobe would not only buy ice from me in Alaska, but would also get fifty of her friends to do the same. If I were a drug addict, but love and support were my drug, then Chris Styler would be my dealer. And Joe Seone would wash our vials.

Gail Silverton, the kids (okay, our familys) longtime caregiver, minced more things and washed more dishes for this book than most people do in a lifetime. She believed in everything, and to her we all owe so much. She almost never swore, so when she tasted something and said Damn! I knew it was a keeper.

I wrote a bunch of this book in the middle school library of my kids school (Quiet! Peaceful!) and librarians Joe Quain and Roxanne Feldman could not have been more welcoming hosts, or better companions when I needed a break.

Jean Witter, Abby Rothschild, Rebecca Stettner, and Robin Eastonjust thank you for everything. When your kids friends parents become your own great friends... well, thats just stupendously lucky. (Hey, can you pick up my kids on Friday?)

Many thanks to the following always, always supportive people: My awesome sister, Lizzie Workman, and her husband Mark Williams. The Freilich clan: Arnie, Sandy, Jeff, Silvina, Andy, Lisa, and Adamthank you all. And thanks to Ted and Donna Bocuzzi, Alison and Bryan Dunn, the Rosenblatts, Kelly Hoey, Charlie Masson, Alexis and Kevin Romer, Karen Kreitsek, Sharon Almog, Eugenia Bone, Pam Horn, Kate Tyler, Rob Easton, David Erlanger, Mark and Maryanne Alonso, Amy and Debby Ziff, Leigh Galione, Dave Barry, Carla Sinatra, Gijs Van Thiel, Amy Wilton, Andrea Szasz,

Katie Chin, and Stephanie Testa. And many thanks to the inimitable Christopher Idone, who always reminds me what real food and real cooking are all about, and to Will Schwalbe, who thinks big, and to the postive force that is Abby Schneiderman.