Midnight Chicken : & Other Recipes Worth Living For

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Winner of the Guild of Food Writers General Cookbook Award 2020

‘A manual for living and a declaration of hope’ – Nigella Lawson.

‘A Beautiful, life-affirming memoir with recipes … The most talented British debut writer in a generation’ – Sunday Times.

‘Brave and moving … as effective as a manual for life as it is as a kitchen companion’ – Shamil Thakrar, co-founder of Dishoom.

There are lots of ways to start a story, but this one begins with a chicken.

Because one night, Ella found herself lying on her kitchen floor, wondering if she would ever get up – and it was the thought of a chicken, of roasting it, and of eating it, that got her to her feet and made her want to be alive. Midnight Chicken is the story of Ella’s life in a Tiny Flat, and the food she cooked there. From roast garlic and tomato soup to charred leek lasagne or burnt­-butter brownies, she shares recipes that are about people, about love, about the things that matter every day.

This is a cookbook-of-stories to make you fall in love with the world again. With a new afterword about life after The Tiny Flat. ‘An utter treat’ – Dolly Alderton’ Divine.

She has found a way to write not just about food itself but, more importantly, about the darkness for which cooking can be a partial remedy’ – Bee Wilson