I have a lot of cookbooks. Although I am not much of a cook, I love to read about recipes and understand the joy of cooking. I’ve never come across a cookbook quite like Alice Zaslavsky’s The joy of better cooking. It combines amazing nutritional information and life changing skills and thrills for enthusiastic eaters. It’s a gorgeous cookbook—a 10 out of 10.
Love,
Dee
After enjoying Alice Zaslavsky’s bestselling cookbook “In Praise of Veg” I was excited to receive her new book The joy of better cooking. As a content-creating photographer, I am sensitive to beautiful images and fun graphics.
The fact that I completely ignore my cooking skills due to time constraints (or prioritization) has nothing to do with whether or not I can enjoy a cookbook. Alice’s books immediately make me want to cook or make time for it. While daydreaming through the beautiful recipes, I will have more time to make them one fine day.
This vibrant kitchen manual contains stacks of veg-forward recipes that you’ll want to cook on a weekly basis, but the real gold lies in the handy kitchen skills and know-how that will help build the foundations for a lifetime of better cooking. Start with Slapdash (really outstanding stuff simply thrown together) then move to On Autopilot (great go-tos for weeknights on the fly) and Making the Most of It (gluts and leftover makeovers). Soon you’ll be ready to Loosen Your Shoulders (weekend pottering and entertaining), just in time for some Seriously Good Sweeties (like, seriously good).
Whether you’re already a dab hand, you’re a battler who finds cooking a bit meh, or you’re starting from ‘which way do I hold the knife?’, The Joy of Better Cooking has all the inspiration, hand-holding and cheerleading you need to relax into the rhythm and truly enjoy cooking for your family and friends.
