Bonnie Stern - Dont Worry, Just Cook: Delicious, Timeless Recipes for Comfort and Connection

In her latest cookbook, Dont Worry, Just Cook, written with her daughter Anna Rupert (who has, in fact, been in the kitchen cooking beside Bonnie her whole life!), Bonnie and Anna are here to help cooks of all experience foster comfort and connection through food.

With her trademark encouraging style and attention to detail, Bonnie writes recipes that are consistently delicious, widely appealing, and, as always, timeless. Like all of her cookbooks, Dont Worry, Just Cook doesnt simply give instructions to create a dish, it also shares stories, lessons, and kitchen wisdom that will build your cooking technique and confidence in the kitchen.

In this new book, youll find easy-to-follow recipes for all-day breakfasts, soups, starters, and side dishes, as well as breads and vegetarian, fish, and meat mains. And, for those wanting something sweet, Bonnie and Anna have included plenty of desserts! Youll be amazed by how quickly such special dishes like Jeweled Roasted Salmon with Herbs and Sheet Pan Chicken with Lemon and Olives come together. The simplicity and beauty of dishes like Jaala Herb Salad with Lemon Honey Dressing and Roasted Cauliflower Steaks with Tahini and Zhug will impress even the cook! And the desserts, like the Pavlova Cake with Lemon Curd and Berries, Bonnies Rugelach, and Smores Chocolate Bark have never been so fun or delicious.

Bonnie and Anna have also provided notes and variations to help you modify dishes for special diets, and have sprinkled in essays on topics that will resonate with all of us, from things not worth worrying about, to a love of leftovers and what to do with them. Bonnie and Annas warm voices and subtle humor come through on every page. With 125 enjoyable and thoughtful recipes, and stunning photography, home cooks will turn to this instant classic time and time again to nourish themselves and the people they love.

Copyright 2022 Bonnie Stern Cooking Schools Ltd. and Anna Rupert

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ISBN9780525611585

Ebook ISBN9780525611592

Cover and book design by Kelly Hill

Photography by Tyler Anderson

Additional photos provided by Mark Rupert and Anna Rupert

Food styling by Olga Truchan

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To everyone we call family, who helps us with our worries and helps us to not worry. Thank you for letting us be in your life, and letting us try to do the same for you.

Contents

Foreword by Yotam Ottolenghi

Preparing food is the most blissful activity, second only to serving it to a home crowd, happy to express their joy and gratitude. I get this kind of kick in abundance, both in my restaurants and when feeding friends and family at my dining table. The process of cooking and nurturing (yourself and others) is fundamental to being human yet, somehow, in the modern world, it doesnt always come naturally. For some, it could even be a source of anxiety.

Paradoxically, to get over such worries, and capture the full potential for joy that cooking can give you, you simply need to start doing it. There really is no other way. Luckily, there are people like Bonnie Stern around, a teacher at heart, and her daughter, Anna, to hold your hand when you need it, guide you through the process, and supply you with a bunch of home dishes that withstood the test of time in the Stern-Rupert family, all of them as comforting as they are reassuring.