The Kitchen 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.

'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 moreOn the sofa: sticky-crispy Korean tofu, pistachio chilli, pumpkin and raisin roasted riceAt the kitchen counter: brown butter cornbread, herby mango salad, green chickpea quesadillasFor a gathering: sheet-pan leek latkes, pig cheek and queen bean burritos, smoky rosemary palomasWith a tablecloth: asparagus fritters, miso mushroom ragù, smoky tea chocolate potsFor the week ahead: bread and butter, cure-all one-pan beans, pink onions, caramelised garlicOn 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.

Reviews

Early praise for The Kitchen Book:

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

‘Easy and clever. There is so much to love about this book. Reading it felt like sitting at Ella's kitchen table, surrounded by her piles of things while she serves you dumplings from the freezer’ Anna Jones, author of Easy Wins

'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

Praise for Ella Risbridger:

'Ella Risbridger has a comforting talent for delivering deliciousness in a way that seems like an act of compassion' Nigella Lawson

'The most talented British debut writer in a generation' Sunday Times

'A moving testimonial to the redemptive power of cooking. Risbridger knows that it offers not just solace but a map; cooking can save you. Generous, honest and uplifting' Diana Henry

'She has found a way to write not just about food itself but, more importantly, about the darkness for which cooking can be a partial remedy' Bee Wilson, Sunday Times