Melissa Clark has good recipes that are… they’re not like Ottolenghi levels of complicated, but even what she calls easy and quick is like, ok sure, for someone who considers making dinner their whole evening’s entertainment. I certainly don’t think she tends to call for unnecessary or wildly unusual ingredients but I come from a family of cooks and live in nyc so again, potentially useless POV.

I was underwhelmed by I’ll Have What He’s Having but possibly only because Adib Khorram has written some of the only YA I genuinely enjoyed so my expectations were too high. He’s certainly a good writer, and this was funny and sweet. Again, not something I am tempted to reread, but definitely worth reading once.