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Midnight Chicken

& Other Recipes Worth Living For

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.

Midnight Chicken (& Other Recipes Worth Living For) is a cookbook. Or, at least, you'll flick through these pages and find recipes so inviting that you'll head straight for the kitchen: roast garlic and tomato soup, uplifting chilli-lemon spaghetti, charred leek lasagne, squash skillet pie, spicy fish finger sandwiches or burnt-butter brownies. It's the kind of cooking you can do a little bit drunk. It's the kind of cooking that is...
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Recommended by Becky Krystal, and 1 others.

Becky KrystalIt’s a combination of cookbook and memoir. You could read the whole book cover-to-cover and be satisfied. Even if you didn’t make a dish from it. (Source)

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Delicious, fresh Vietnamese food is achievable any night of the week with this cookbook's 80 accessible, easy recipes.

IACP AWARD FINALIST - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR - The Washington Post - Eater - Food52 - Epicurious - Christian Science Monitor - Library Journal

Drawing on decades of experience, as well as the cooking hacks her mom adopted after fleeing from Vietnam to America, award-winning author Andrea Nguyen shows you how to use easy-to-find ingredients to create true Vietnamese...
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Becky KrystalShe talks about trying to make recipes that are streamlined but not dumbed down and she redoes classic dishes with some non-traditional ingredients. (Source)

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Recommended by Becky Krystal, and 1 others.

Becky KrystalShe makes use of a lot of interesting grains and the flavours are really clear and simple but delicious. (Source)

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Former MasterChef Season 6 contestant Hetal Vasavada, nostalgic for the desserts she grew up with, shares a versatile selection of classic Indian recipes and creative interpretations. These desserts are more than one-note sweet treats; they’re complex creations, relying on a wide variety of spices, nuts and fruits for incredible flavor. Readers will learn to work with superb combinations like pistachio and rose, chocolate and ginger, fennel and almond, citrus and sesame and more. Hetal makes it easy to create unbelievable treats with simple instructions and easy-to-find ingredients. more
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Becky KrystalShe has this nice mix of traditional Indian desserts and then dishes that are more of a mash-up or ‘inspired by’. (Source)

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Sababa

Fresh, Sunny Flavors from My Israeli Kitchen

"The pages of this book ooze with [Adeena's] passion for the romance and beauty of Israeli cuisine. The recipes are soulful, elemental, and stunningly delicious."
--from the foreword by Michael Solomonov


In an Israeli cookbook as personal as it is global, Adeena Sussman celebrates the tableau of flavors the region has to offer, in all its staggering and delicious variety

In Hebrew (derived from the original Arabic), sababa means "everything is awesome," and it's this sunny spirit with which the American food writer and expat Adeena...
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Becky KrystalIsraeli food and Middle Eastern food is really having a moment here in the US. It’s just such a sunny bright cuisine. (Source)

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