A Man & His Kitchen: Classic Home Cooking and Entertaining with Style

A Man & His Kitchen: Classic Home Cooking and Entertaining with Style brings Matt Hranek’s Wm Brown Farm to your own stove, with more than one hundred recipes he considers his greatest hits. Think lobster rolls, vinegar braised short ribs, roast chicken with potatoes, chopped radicchio with anchovy vinaigrette, moules marinières, shrimp pasta, American diner style omelets, porcini risotto, and a couple of very good steaks.

The book is structured the way a real life weekend unfolds. Mornings, afternoons, cocktail hour, evenings, and seasonal gatherings each get their own moment, so you can move naturally from solo breakfasts to long lunches to late night dinners with friends. Nothing here is fussy or trend driven. The recipes are straightforward and repeatable, designed to help you cook for yourself, your family, and the people you like having around the table.

Photographs from the Wm Brown Farm set the mood, with worn wood tables, proper glassware, and unfussy plating that still feels considered. The result is a cookbook that reads like time spent with a friend who actually knows what to do with a pan, a bottle, and a free evening. It is a natural companion for anyone who sees cooking as part of a larger ritual of music, conversation, and good clothes hung on the back of a chair.

Pair this title with other design led cookbooks and lifestyle books from our Books Collection for a kitchen library that feels as thoughtful as the rest of your home.