Perfectly Good Food
A Totally Achievable Zero Waste Approach to Home Cooking
28 July 2023
Description
How to cook flexibly and fight food waste, with 80 recipes and 150 ideas to use up what you have
Want to cook better while saving money and reducing your rubbish? Learn to eat less wastefully and more sustainably in this combination cookbook and field guide, full of ingenious use-it-up tips, bright storage ideas and infinitely adaptable Hero Recipes. Whether you’ve got a lingering bunch of herbs or an abundance of summer tomatoes, Perfectly Good Food will help rescue everything in your fridge while getting a delicious dinner on the table quickly and easily—you’ll be inspired never to waste good food again.
Written by the chef-sisters behind Boston’s acclaimed Mei Mei Dumplings, Perfectly Good Food combines professional know-how from a decade in the restaurant industry with the make-it-work approach of a home cook feeding a busy family. With clever, colourful illustrations supporting a diverse array of plant-forward recipes, this is a book for the thrifty chef, the environmentally mindful cook and anyone looking to make the most of their ingredients.
Reviews
"One of the best things about Perfectly Good Food is its desire to help readers depend less on instructions and more on their own confidence in the kitchen, the trickle-down effect of which is less food waste. If you have the confidence and creativity to make something tasty out of that wilted lettuce, you're much less likely to throw it in the trash...[that] confidence is liberating. " — The Boston Globe
"[Perfectly Good Food] advocates a jazzy, contingency-driven approach to household thrift." — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker
"[A] field guide that prioritises functionality and fun, while providing people with tools they can apply as they're able. " — Charlotte Druckman, The Washington Post
Awards
Winner — Readable Feast Awards, 2023
