How often will I cook from the book? Music’s promise of real-life recipes is definitely fulfilled here, and you could plausibly find yourself revisiting this book a few times in any given week. There’s also handy little sections at the bottom of each recipe that cover variations and substitutions that might aid the process. How annoyingly vague are the recipes? Everything is kept neat and simple here, with ingredients kindly presented first in metric and then in the usual US-friendly imperial measurements. From a lengthy introduction that takes in essential kitchenware and revisits ideas around food shopping to chunky histories for various recipes, there’s a lot to browse here. Given that Music’s book is essentially ‘here are some nice recipes to try’, she gets a decent amount of writing in. A few pages on the socio-economic impact of grains on Western European culture. A short essay on the cheesemaking process. Often the titles with the most to read are those that have specific themes that allow for deep-dives on history, culture and so on. Is it good bedtime reading? Better than many cookbooks.
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Music is also behind 2019’s Where Cooking Begins, which focused on uncomplicated recipes, and was as much about how to shop for food as it was how to cook what you bought. Who wrote it? Carla Lalli Music, who is perhaps best known for her video work at Bon Appetit, until she quit in 2020 in solidarity with her BIPOC colleagues, who had been chronically mistreated by the organisation.
A lovely sentiment, if one that sounds like the author’s editor might also be her therapist.
That Sounds So Good offers up ‘100 real-life recipes for every day of the week’, and in its introduction author Carla Lalli Music says each of the dishes in the book ‘is designed to help remove any psychic and emotional barriers that get in the way of cooking at home’. What’s the USP? What we have here is one of my favourite themes a cookbook can have: food is good, but sometimes it’s exhausting, let’s make it easier.
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