PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — “I want the food I make to taste like a James Beard Award-winning chef made it, but I don’t have the time or talent.” If you say those words to the James Beard Award-winning chef Michael Solomonov, he will tell you, “Oh, but you can. You can and you will.”
Consider it a challenge but an achievable one, and yes — in your imperfect kitchen, after a long day at work, on a school night, in between the schlep to and from practice, and while the kids are doing homework.
That’s the idea behind “Zahav Home,” the new cookbook from Solomonov and fellow Beard winner Steven Cook, co-owners of that acclaimed spot in Society Hill and the hospitality empire CookNSolo Restaurants.
KYW Newsradio’s Ian Bush spoke with them as they embarked on their book tour. Their conversation below has been lightly edited and condensed.
Michael Solomonov: We really love home cooking, …