Matthew Kline turns a lifetime of cooking into a compilation of recipes, recollections, international tastes, and narratives centered on family and friends.
In Kline & Dine: Every Meal an Adventure, Matthew Kline presents over half a century of home cooking in a cookbook and culinary memoir that honors food as a means of exploration, bonding, and collective enjoyment. Featuring over 100 recipes along with personal anecdotes and photographs, Kline recounts a lifetime examining ingredients, methods, dining establishments, cookbooks, and global cuisines. Central to the work is a straightforward principle that has steered his cooking for years: crafting a memorable dish becomes truly significant when it delivers happiness to those around you.
The origins of Kline & Dine: Every Meal an Adventure trace back to childhood, when Kline's family gave him what he recalls as his initial encounter with real Chinese food. His parents started making Chinese dishes at home, and upon his departure for college, his mother—an excellent cook in her own right—gave him a wok and a Chinese cookbook. By his sophomore year, he was preparing meals for his roommates and realizing that their pleasure from his cooking could be as gratifying as the act of making it.
That initial passion grew into many years of experimentation. Kline moved beyond Chinese cuisine to delve into Mexican, French, Italian, Eastern Mediterranean, barbecue, Moroccan, Thai, Vietnamese, Spanish, Middle Eastern, and Persian cooking traditions. Kline & Dine: Every Meal an Adventure documents this progression through starters, entrees, side dishes, sweets, one-pot meals, holiday specialties, and menus inspired by Jewish and family occasions. The recipes offer options for omnivores, pescatarians, and vegetarians, and the accompanying narratives give background on the restaurants, journeys, cookbooks, ingredients, and encounters that shaped Kline's style.
Instead of framing cooking as a quest for professional excellence, Kline & Dine: Every Meal an Adventure highlights the opportunities open to home cooks. Kline stresses ongoing curiosity, ranging from mastering unfamiliar methods and finding new ingredients to grasping how dishes can be arranged and ordered into a pleasing meal plan. The book targets anyone who frequently prepares food for loved ones, as well as readers who appreciate the narratives and customs linked to cuisine. Its overarching theme is that a lifetime spent in the kitchen can stay a continuous journey.
Matthew Kline is an enthusiastic home cook with over five decades of experience making meals for family and friends. His narrative is influenced by inquisitiveness, cultural discovery, family customs, and the delight he takes in seeing others appreciate his creations. Through Kline & Dine: Every Meal an Adventure, Kline safeguards recipes and recollections while encouraging fellow home cooks to continue learning, trying new things, and bringing people together at their own tables. For Kline, the lasting benefit of cooking comes not just from taste, but also from the bonds formed when food is shared.
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