The Zuni Cafe Cookbook: A Review of One of the Best American Cookbooks

By James MacGuire

With the sad passing of Judy Rodgers, we have lost a chef who was generous (not least to me), who was renowned for her uncompromising commitment, who transmitted a way of thinking about food from what now seems a distant past. That was the era of Nouvelle Cuisine, whose chefs were rooted in a calmer, in some ways simpler time, as well as in that classic…