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.

'Original, inspiring and joyously delicious. I want to eat everything in this book' Nigel Slater

'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

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