tom hudgens

author of The Commonsense Kitchen and the WHOLE HOG blog

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Camino Restaurant Menu
Here is the poetic, inspiring, daily-changing menu of one of my new favorite restaurants, where most of the seasonal fare is cooked with live fire.
Culinate
This terrific website has featured an excerpt from The Commonsense Kitchen!
Cool House
Check out my Slovene friends' cool gourmet food store in Ljubljana (I am a guest blogger on their site, too, if you'd like to see my recipes translated into Slovene).
Bookpod.org
A weekly podcast of thoughtful "audio essays" by novelists, memoirists, playwrights and non-fiction writers of lasting value. Tom's interview is entitled "Cooking with Commonsense."
The Shiksa in the Kitchen
A wonderful guide to Jewish comfort food!
Smitten Kitchen
One of the most popular independent cooking blogs in America today.
Saving the Season
A fine, sumptuous blog about home canning and preserving.
the weekly menus at Chez Panisse
I love to read these menus each week--an excellent resource for cooking and "thinking" seasonally.
Deep Springs College
Find out all about the renowned college-in-the-desert where the cookbook was "born!"

cookbook

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W E L C O M E !


Tom Hudgens is the author of a big, all-purpose cookbook with hundreds of recipes and abundant heart, called The Commonsense Kitchen: 500 Recipes + Lessons for a Hand-Crafted Life. It is a beautifully-styled, 608-page Chronicle Books 2010 release, available in bookstores everywhere.



Hello, everyone!

Thanks for stopping by the online "home" of The Commonsense Kitchen. Be sure to check out WHOLE HOG, my cooking blog, here, too.

To see more information on the cookbook, or to buy it, click "cookbook" at the top of this page, or on the right-hand sidebar.
To read the blog, click "WHOLE HOG blog" above.
To send us a message, click "contact."

Thank you for your interest! May you be well.

Happy Cooking,

--tom

updated February 2012
site launched May 26, 2010

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(giant T-bones ready for cooking, Deep Springs Boardinghouse, Fall 2006)

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Check the WHOLE HOG blog index on this site for posts, photos, and recipes from various classes, including "A Commonsense Thanksgiving," "Creative Seasonal Cooking," and "The Butter Class"--a one-day class all about my favorite ingredient!