Nadia Gorsell’s Recipe Shelf

Nadia Gorsell runs the recipe desk at Ursel, where she edits the weeknight column and tests every dish at least twice before it goes out to readers. She spent nine years at the Granmere Courier, building its test kitchen up from a single scorched hot plate. Her book, “The Weeknight Larder,” came out last spring, and she has worked on two dozen other cookbooks along the way. She grew up on a river bend in the Midwest, lives in Portland now, and cooks from wherever she has just been.