Recipe guide as both self-help manual and candid biography, Midnight Chicken rejoices in those life-affirming moments when half an hour in the kitchen really does feel like emotional salvation.
Recipes that reveal the life-changing happiness of cooking There are lots of ways to start a story, but this one begins with a chicken...
There was a time when, for Ella Risbridger, the world had become overwhelming. Sounds were too loud, colours were too bright, everyone moved too fast. One night she found herself lying on her kitchen floor, wondering if she would ever get up - and it was the thought of a chicken, of roasting it, and of eating it, that got her to her feet and made her want to be alive.
Midnight Chicken is a cookbook. Or, at least, you'll flick through these pages and find recipes so inviting that you will head straight for the kitchen: roast garlic and tomato soup, uplifting chilli-lemon spaghetti, charred leek lasagne, squash skillet pie, spicy fish finger sandwiches and burnt-butter brownies.
It's the kind of cooking you can do a little bit drunk, that is probably better if you've got a bottle of wine open and a hunk of bread to mop up the sauce. But if you settle down and read it with a cup of tea (or a glass of that wine), you'll also discover that it's an annotated list of things worth living for - a manifesto of moments worth living for.
This is a cookbook to make you fall in love with the world again.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9781526623898
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 266 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
A manual for living and a declaration of hope - Nigella Lawson
An utter treat - Dolly Alderton
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. I wish I’d had this book when I was in my twenties - Diana Henry
Her writing is beautiful, brave and moving. She shares wholeheartedly with her reader, not just of her experience, but also herself. This is a book for all seasons and states of mind and is as effective as a manual for life as it is as a kitchen companion - Shamil Thakrar, co-founder of Dishoom
Divine. Utterly totally perfect - Charly Cox
So full of loving kindness and so thoughtfully and poetically written - Josie Long
She cooks like a dream and writes like an angel - Sarah Phelps
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
Full disclosure- I’ve not cooked from this yet.... but I will. It’s a wonderfully tactile book with beautiful illustrations. The recipes and their accompaniments are soothing for the soul. I find myself pausing,... More
No matter your dietary preferences or cooking abilities, this is a book that should grace the shelf of any household. Ella Risbridger takes readers through the basics in cooking whilst sharing what cooking means to... More
I bought this book on a whim after stumbling across Ella on social media and I am so glad I did!I am by no means a confident cook and I have so far made eleven recipes. The recipes are easy to follow and Ella is a... More
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