The Kitchen Book - by Ella Risbridger (Hardcover)

About the Book

The new cookbook from award-winning writer Ella Risbridger.

Home cooking but make it gorgeous. Make it the thing that improves your day. Make it beautiful, useful and delicious. Make your life just, like, 10% better.

Book Synopsis

The new cookbook from award-winning writer Ella Risbridger.

Home cooking but make it gorgeous. Make it the thing that improves your day. Make it beautiful, useful and delicious. Make your life just, like, 10% better.

'Inspiring and joyously delicious' NIGEL SLATER

'Deeply warm and encouraging' NICOLA LAMB

'So much to love in this book' ANNA JONES

No-knife potato curry, cumin lamb ragù, turmeric satay salmon, marinated bavette, and kimchi remoulade; breakfast bars, rhubarb and custard, sticky lemon cake, and one-bowl cannelés. This is cooking for real life - the kinds of recipes you will actually make and actually love.

There are plenty of ideas to get you through the week with minimal faff and maximum reward, whether you're at your lowest ebb or striving for elegance:

• The big list: how to stock the fridge, freezer, spice drawer and more
• On the sofa: sticky-crispy Korean tofu, pistachio chilli, pumpkin and raisin roasted rice
• At the kitchen counter: brown butter cornbread, herby mango salad, green chickpea quesadillas
• For a gathering: sheet-pan leek latkes, pig cheek and queen bean burritos, smoky rosemary palomas
• With a tablecloth: asparagus fritters, miso mushroom ragù, smoky tea chocolate pots
• For the week ahead: bread and butter, cure-all one-pan beans, pink onions, caramelised garlic
• On the floor: carbonara rice, fish finger and smoked sweetcorn tacos, sausage and rocket gnocchi

Roasting a chicken. Planning for the week ahead. Throwing a party (for three or thirty or more). Baking fail-safe cookies (for when failure to have cookies really isn't an option). The Kitchen Book is your source of wisdom for the 4pm what's-for-dinner panic, and the definitive answer to 'Maybe just toast and an early night?'

These are recipes that will stick with you for life.

Review Quotes

'The Kitchen Book is my favourite cookbook ever. Yes, ever! It isn't just that I want to make every single thing in it, except the sweet potatoes on page 300 (this is sweet potatoes' fault, not hers). It isn't just that it's crammed full of useful and ingenious tips and methods, or that the recipes are fantastic. It's the tone of it, the friendliness and warmth, the sentences, the intelligence and funniness and joy with which she writes. She is alive to every pleasure and it communicates itself in the most contagious way. Passionately recommended!' India Knight, Sunday Times

'Ella guides us squarely toward the delicious while mercifully freeing us from the tyranny of rules. Both the writing and the recipes are deeply warm and encouraging' Nicola Lamb, author of Sift

'Original, inspiring and joyously delicious. I want to eat everything in this book' Nigel Slater, author of A Thousand Feasts

'There is so much to love in this book ... I love Ella's style, conversational and chaotic in the best possible way. And the recipes really drew me in with their ease and cleverness' Anna Jones, author of Easy Wins

About the Author

Ella Risbridger is a writer and journalist from London. She has had bylines in the Financial Times, Guardian, Observer, Vogue and more, while her books span cookery, poetry, essay collections and picture books. Her best-selling debut, Midnight Chicken (& Other Recipes Worth Living For), won Cookbook of the Year at the Guild of Food Writers Awards, and was named a book of the year in multiple publications on both sides of the Atlantic, including the Sunday Times, New York Times, Daily Mail and Washington Post. Ella is also the creator of You Get In Love And Then...?, a best-selling newsletter with thousands of paid subscribers.