Jessica Battilana's 'Repertoire' Is a Cookbook for the Rest of Us

San Francisco Magazine Luke Tsai Courtesy of Little, Brown and Company Weeknight kitchen warriors, rejoice. “I just don’t have the time I used to spend dreaming up dinner,” San Francisco Chronicle columnist Jessica Battilana writes in the opening pages of her new cookbook, Repertoire. That’s the lament of many enthusiastic home cooks who, like the author, have graduated from elaborate bachelor pad feasts to the working parent’s life of cranky kids and nonexistent prep time. Images and ...