Recipe

<p>Object Lessons is a series of short beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. <p/><i>Recipe </i>reveals the surprising lessons that recipes teach in addition to the obvious instructions on how to prepare a dish or perform a process. These include lessons in hospitality friendship community family and ethnic heritage tradition nutrition precision and order invention and improvisation feasting and famine survival and seduction and love. A recipe is a signature as individual as the cook's fingerprint; a passport to travel the world without leaving the kitchen; a lifeline for people in hunger and in want; and always a means to expand one's worldview if not waistline. <p/>Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in <i>The Atlantic</i>.</p>