The Kitchen Book

The new cookbook from award-winning writer Ella Risbridger. Home cooking, but make it gorgeous. Make it just, like, 10% better. Make it the thing that makes your day better.

From kale caesar sandwiches, no-knife potato curry, crispy leek latkes, pistachio chilli, Marmite soup, turmeric satay salmon, roasted raisin rice, marinated bavette, and kimchi remoulade; to rhubarb and custard, lemon curd cake, one-bowl cannelés, and supermarket cherry pie; to bread, butter and breakfast bars: this is real-life cooking done right.

Featuring more than 100 delicious and achievable recipes that you’ll want to cook again and again, it’s about how to cook, how to eat, how to live, and how to make things nice.

With weeknight dinners, week-ahead shortcuts and kitchen counter meals, Ella Risbridger also gives plenty of options for roasting a chicken, hosting elegant and delightful gatherings, and a failsafe cookie formula for all occasions and emergencies. These are dishes that deliver even when you don’t have an abundance of time or energy, and all of them promise to make your life at least ten per cent more lovely (even after the washing up).

Make them; change them; fit them into your life, and cook them so often that you (almost) forget where they came from.

Reviews

Praise for The Year of Miracles:

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

'An extraordinary, heartwarming book with gorgeous recipes. I loved it' Nigel Slater

'Wonderful … It's like treasure. The recipes are excellent' India Knight, Sunday Times

Praise for Midnight Chicken:

'Beautiful, life-affirming memoir with recipes … 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

'Brave and moving … as effective as a manual for life as it is as a kitchen companion' Shamil Thakrar, co-founder of Dishoom

'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

'A wholly unconventional cookbook' Guardian

'This is so much more than a cookbook. Beautifully written and restorative with comforting recipes and ways to find joy, you'll want to read this yourself before you give it as a gift, maybe buy two' BBC Good Food Magazine

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.