This Will Make It Taste Good

A New Path to SIMPLE Cooking

Vivian Howard is a chef, restauranteur, author, and native North Carolinian. This Will Make It Taste Good, her second cookbook, is a different kind of cookbook than Deep Run Roots. It contains recipes for flavor-enhancing ingredients you can keep on hand in your refrigerator, freezer, or pantry that will help you, as she says, "make basic food taste fantastic." She calls these "flavor heroes", and then includes both simple suggestions and more intricate recipes for using them.

But-a-Nut Soup

About once a year, I really want some butternut squash soup. This recipe is pretty basic, but the author says that's the best way to let the squash flavor shine. She's not wrong about that.