Summary: <p>A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach: Ali Stafford on Favorite Cookbooks</p> <p>Sorry to spoil the surprise, but if you’re on my holiday shopping list, you’re getting a cookbook. Besides gardening, home cooking is one of the only things in this increasingly dizzy world that I feel as if I can control, and I’m soothed and sustained trying new flavors and expanding my repertory with the help of cookbooks. I asked cookbook author and former restaurant sous chef Alexandra Stafford to help guide us.<span id="m_7359976907707947945gmail-more-41443"></span></p> <p>Ali’s first cookbook, “Bread Toast Crumbs,” was published this year. Besides also creating her own recipe filled website, Alexandra’s Kitchen (at <a class="m_7359976907707947945external" href="http://alexandracooks.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alexandra Cooks dot com</a>), she’s a <a class="m_7359976907707947945external" href="https://food52.com/users/16479-alexandra-stafford" target="_blank" rel="noopener">weekly columnist on weeknight dinners for Food 52 dot com</a>, where part of the way she serves up such a diversity of fresh ideas is to constantly survey the culinary world in books and online.<img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1912" src="https://i2.wp.com/robinhoodradioondemand.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/DeborahMadisonCanalHouse.jpg?resize=300%2C195&ssl=1" alt="" width="300" height="195"> <img></p>
