About Jazz Cooking

Jazz Cooking emphasizes the use of local and seasonal foods, and discusses how to use organic produce and meat where possible.

We're aiming at readers who are short on time and working on a budget; people who are not happy with eating just take-out Chinese or those heat-'em-up containers of sodium-laden meatloaf or roast beef now found in the fresh meat cases of the grocery store. People who are concerned enough about prepackaged manufactured food products and what they're doing to our health to be willing to learn about cooking and to spend a little extra time but not a lot of extra money to feed their families well.

Maybe most importantly, our approach to cooking is that it's creative and it's fun! Just as a musician seldom plays the same tune twice in exactly the same way, once you learn the basics you can play all kinds of riffs off flavors and textures without slavishly following a recipe.

Two-thirds of American families in 2006 rely exclusively on take-out and prepared foods for all their meals. That's expensive and it's depressing. It supports the runaway consumer corporatocracy; it's unhealthy; and it's not sustainable.

Let's do what we can to turn that around.