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Cook As You Are

Recipes for Real Life, Hungry Cooks and Messy Kitchens
By Ruby Tandoh
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Cook As You Are by Ruby Tandoh offers a refreshing approach to cooking, focusing on enjoyment and accessibility rather than perfection or complexity. Ruby celebrates individuality in the kitchen, presenting a wide array of recipes that cater to various skill levels, preferences, and lifestyles. The book encourages creativity and empowers readers to embrace their unique culinary expression.
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A beautifully-illustrated cookbook for every taste, kitchen and body.

A beautifully-illustrated cookbook for every taste, kitchen and body

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Ruby Tandoh wants us all to cook, and this is her cookbook for all of us—the real home cooks, juggling babies or long commutes, who might have limited resources and limited time.

From last-minute inspiration to delicious meals for one, easy one-pot dinners to no-chop recipes for when life keeps your hands full, Ruby brings us 100 delicious, affordable, and achievable recipes, including salted malted magic ice cream, one-tin smashed potatoes with lemony sardines and pesto, and an easy dinner of plantain, black beans, and eden rice.

This is a new kind of cookbook for our times: an accessible, inclusive, and inspirational addition to any and every kitchen. You don't have to be an aspiring chef for your food to be delectable or for cooking to be a delight. Cook As You Are.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781788167529

Publisher: Profile Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 October 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Serpent's Tail

Edition: Main

Illustration: Integrated illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 46.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 800g

Pages: 352

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Cook Books & Recipes Cooking & Food Non-Fiction Ruby Tandoh

About the Author

Ruby Tandoh is a food writer who has written for, among others, New Yorker, Guardian, Taste, Vittles and Vice. A finalist on the 2013 Great British Bake Off, she has published Eat Up, a book about the pleasure of eating, as well as two cookery books, Crumb and Flavour. When she's not cooking or writing, she watches reality TV and listens to podcasts about maligned women from the 90s.

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