The Year of Miracles: Recipes about Love + Grief + Growing Things - Hardcover

by Ella Risbridger (Author)

A DELICIOUS MAGAZINE BEST COOKBOOK OF THE YEAR * A GLOBE AND MAIL TOP 10 COOKBOOK OF THE YEAR
Shortlisted for the Andre Simon Best Cookbook Award 2022

From the author of Midnight Chicken, a month-by-month chronicle of writing and recipes that explores joy and healing through food.

"A gift to readers and cooks alike ... wise and tender, a reminder that however gloomy your situation, the world abounds in beauty, should you choose to see it." --The Washington Post

"Exuberant, unstoppable, and triumphantly on the side of love and life in the face of death and loss and grief." --Vox

This cookbook is about a year in the kitchen (and in the garden under the fire-escape steps). A year of grief and hope and change; of cardamom-cinnamon chicken rice, chimichurri courgettes, quadruple carb soup, blackberry miso birthday cake, and sticky toffee Guinness brownie pudding. A year of loss, and every kind of romance, and fried jam sandwiches. A year of seedlings and pancakes. A year of falling in love. A year of recipes. A year, in other words, of minor miracles.

In Ella Risbridger's first book Midnight Chicken, she showed readers how food can serve as a light in our darkest days. Now, in The Year of Miracles, Ella shares her story of recovering from loss with the help of good food and good friends. The book celebrates making a fancy dinner even if you're just eating it with a spoon in front of the tv; having people over to dinner without overthinking it; finding late night snacks to ease you to sleep; and having seconds--of everything. Above all, it a powerful testament to how cooking can help us get up and start again in the face of unimaginable hurt.

With tender vulnerability, mesmerizing prose, and delectable recipes, The Year of Miracles is a touching, unforgettable book on finding hope through food.

Author Biography

Ella Risbridger is a writer, anthologiser and editor. In a former life she was the beauty columnist for a broadsheet, a poetry columnist for a now- defunct women's website, a poet, a carer and a journalist. She has written for the Guardian, the Independent, the Observer, Grazia, Stylist, Prospect, and Waitrose Magazine; and has been profiled in the Times, the Financial Times and the Daily Mail. Her debut, Midnight Chicken (& Other Recipes Worth Living For) was Sunday Times Book Of The Year 2019, Guild Of Food Writers General Cookbook Of The Year 2020, and an Amazon and Waterstones bestseller. She lives in South-East London with four thousand books, and has finally got a cat. She is no longer on Twitter, can't figure out how to update her website, but is often on Instagram. @ellarisbridger