Midnight Chicken

& Other Recipes Worth Living For

Ella Risbridger author Elisa Cunningham illustrator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:31st Dec '20

£9.99

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Midnight Chicken cover

An honest and funny book about how cooking can save your life. ‘Beautiful, life-affirming memoir with recipes’ Sunday Times

--_ Winner of the Guild of Food Writers General Cookbook Award 2020--_‘A manual for living and a declaration of hope’ – Nigella Lawson ‘Beautiful, life-affirming memoir with recipes ... The most talented British debut writer in a generation’ - Sunday Times'Brave and moving ... as effective as a manual for life as it is as a kitchen companion' - Shamil Thakrar, co-founder of Dishoom --_ There are lots of ways to start a story, but this one begins with a chicken. Because one night, Ella 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 the story of Ella’s life in a Tiny Flat, and the food she cooked there. From roast garlic and tomato soup to charred leek lasagne or burnt­butter brownies, she shares recipes that are about people, about love, about the things that matter every day. This is a cookbook-of-stories to make you fall in love with the world again. With a new afterword about life after The Tiny Flat.--_'An utter treat' - Dolly Alderton 'Divine. Utterly totally perfect' - Charly Cox 'Generous, honest and uplifting' - Diana Henry '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 --_

A manual for living and a declaration of hope -- Nigella Lawson
An utter treat -- Dolly Alderton
The mosttalented British debut writerin 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

  • Winner of The Guild of Food Writers' Awards 2020 (UK)

ISBN: 9781526623898

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 266g

320 pages