The Kitchen Book
Good Food for Every Day
Published on 21. May 2026
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-0-00-871913-5 (ISBN)
Description
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'A modern classic' Nicola Lamb
'Everything about this book is worth it. Frankly, even if you never ever cook, this book is worth it. I love it' Nigella Lawson
'My favourite cookbook ever. Useful, ingenious, alive to every pleasure. Passionately recommended' India Knight, Sunday Times
'This book is utter magic. I have folded down so many pages: I love the recipes, I love the writing. Her best book yet' Dolly Alderton
'Everything I want from a cookery book' Olivia Potts, Spectator
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Home cooking but make it gorgeous. Make it the thing that improves your day. Make it beautiful, useful and delicious. Make your life just, like, 10% better.
No-knife potato curry, cumin lamb ragu, turmeric satay salmon, marinated bavette, and kimchi remoulade; breakfast bars, rhubarb and custard, sticky lemon cake, and one-bowl canneles. This is cooking for real life - the kinds of recipes you will actually make and actually love.
There are plenty of ideas to get you through the week with minimal faff and maximum reward, whether you're at your lowest ebb or striving for elegance:
The big list: how to stock the fridge, freezer, spice drawer and more
On the sofa: sticky-crispy Korean tofu, pistachio chilli, pumpkin and raisin roasted rice
At the kitchen counter: brown butter cornbread, herby mango salad, green chickpea quesadillas
For a gathering: sheet-pan leek latkes, pig cheek and queen bean burritos, smoky rosemary palomas
With a tablecloth: asparagus fritters, miso mushroom ragu, smoky tea chocolate pots
For the week ahead: bread and butter, cure-all one-pan beans, pink onions, caramelised garlic
On the floor: carbonara rice, fish finger and smoked sweetcorn tacos, sausage and rocket gnocchi
Roasting a chicken. Planning for the week ahead. Throwing a party (for three or thirty or more). Baking fail-safe cookies (for when failure to have cookies really isn't an option). The Kitchen Book is your source of wisdom for the 4pm what's-for-dinner panic, and the definitive answer to 'Maybe just toast and an early night?'
These are recipes that will stick with you for life.
'A modern classic' Nicola Lamb
'Everything about this book is worth it. Frankly, even if you never ever cook, this book is worth it. I love it' Nigella Lawson
'My favourite cookbook ever. Useful, ingenious, alive to every pleasure. Passionately recommended' India Knight, Sunday Times
'This book is utter magic. I have folded down so many pages: I love the recipes, I love the writing. Her best book yet' Dolly Alderton
'Everything I want from a cookery book' Olivia Potts, Spectator
-
Home cooking but make it gorgeous. Make it the thing that improves your day. Make it beautiful, useful and delicious. Make your life just, like, 10% better.
No-knife potato curry, cumin lamb ragu, turmeric satay salmon, marinated bavette, and kimchi remoulade; breakfast bars, rhubarb and custard, sticky lemon cake, and one-bowl canneles. This is cooking for real life - the kinds of recipes you will actually make and actually love.
There are plenty of ideas to get you through the week with minimal faff and maximum reward, whether you're at your lowest ebb or striving for elegance:
The big list: how to stock the fridge, freezer, spice drawer and more
On the sofa: sticky-crispy Korean tofu, pistachio chilli, pumpkin and raisin roasted rice
At the kitchen counter: brown butter cornbread, herby mango salad, green chickpea quesadillas
For a gathering: sheet-pan leek latkes, pig cheek and queen bean burritos, smoky rosemary palomas
With a tablecloth: asparagus fritters, miso mushroom ragu, smoky tea chocolate pots
For the week ahead: bread and butter, cure-all one-pan beans, pink onions, caramelised garlic
On the floor: carbonara rice, fish finger and smoked sweetcorn tacos, sausage and rocket gnocchi
Roasting a chicken. Planning for the week ahead. Throwing a party (for three or thirty or more). Baking fail-safe cookies (for when failure to have cookies really isn't an option). The Kitchen Book is your source of wisdom for the 4pm what's-for-dinner panic, and the definitive answer to 'Maybe just toast and an early night?'
These are recipes that will stick with you for life.
Reviews / Votes
'An important kitchen companion ... This is a book of passions (for garlic soup, for making your own butter) and of comforts (dumpling omelette, sheet-pan leek latkes) ... recipes which you will want to make even when you feel you can hardly get up from the sofa' Bee Wilson 'The Kitchen Book is my favourite cookbook ever ... It isn't just that it's crammed full of useful and ingenious tips and methods, or that the recipes are fantastic. It's the tone of it, the friendliness and warmth, the sentences, the intelligence and funniness and joy with which [Ella] writes. She is alive to every pleasure and it communicates itself in the most contagious way' India Knight, Sunday Times 'It's everything I want from a cookery book: longform food writing you can lose yourself in, complete pragmatism and excellent recipes. Like all of Ella's books, it's filled with love - but it's also funny and delicious and wise' Olivia Potts, Spectator 'There is a lot to be said for adding to the repertoire of very simple things you can cook at "lowest ebb, lowest effort", as Ella puts it, and she is particularly attuned to ensuring recipes meet those criteria. This one, for example, involves almost no washing up' Harriet Fitch Little, Financial Times 'Original, inspiring and joyously delicious. I want to eat everything in this book' Nigel Slater, author of A Thousand Feasts 'There is so much to love in this book ... I love Ella's style, conversational and chaotic in the best possible way. And the recipes really drew me in with their ease and cleverness' Anna Jones, author of Easy Wins 'Ella guides us squarely toward the delicious while mercifully freeing us from the tyranny of rules. Both the writing and the recipes are deeply warm and encouraging' Nicola Lamb, author of SiftMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers
Dimensions
Height: 252 mm
Width: 196 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
1180 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-00-871913-5 (9780008719135)
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E-Book
05/2026
Fourth Estate Ltd
€17.99
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Person
Ella Risbridger is a writer and journalist from London. She has had bylines in the Financial Times, Guardian, Observer, Vogue and more, while her books span cookery, poetry, essay collections and picture books. Her best-selling debut, Midnight Chicken (& Other Recipes Worth Living For), won Cookbook of the Year at the Guild of Food Writers Awards, and was named a book of the year in multiple publications on both sides of the Atlantic, including the Sunday Times, New York Times, Daily Mail and Washington Post. Ella is also the creator of You Get In Love And Then...?, a best-selling newsletter with thousands of paid subscribers.