A Once Upon a Chef cookbook review: a review of Once Upon a Chef, the Cookbook by Jennifer Segal.
It’s gorgeous out; life is crazy; why does everything happen at once?
Those are the thoughts that keep cycling through my mind this week. If you have any answers, ideas, or a pool I could swim in, email me immediately.
The crowning news of this loony week is that Once Upon a Chef, by my incredible author Jenn Segal, hit The Washington Post bestseller list!!
I am throwing all the confetti! And then promptly moving out so I don’t have to vacuum it. I’ll live outdoors from now on.
If you haven’t yet jumped into the beautiful + achievable world of Jenn’s recipes, here’s a handy Once Upon a Chef cookbook review, which I shared with my pals at The Kitchn.
This Culinary-School-in-Print Will Up Your Kitchen Game
This Once Upon a Chef cookbook review was originally published on The Kitchn.
(Image credit: Courtesy of Chronicle Books; Photography: Alexandra Grablewski)
Here’s a dream many of us have had: Quit that desk job, sign up for culinary school, run off to Paris (Rome is okay, too), and cook for a living alongside a ragtag team of chefs who form love interests, friendships, and rivalries around dinner service. It’s Grey’s Anatomy, but for people who prefer mise-ing to medicating.
Of course, many of us don’t actually want to live this dream — I want to share my counterspace like I want to share my toothbrush — but I do want to have that friend who did it and who’s going to tell me all the juicy bits later, so I don’t have to stand in a cold kitchen for 11 hours slicing onions and calculating my debt-to-income ratio.
Click here to keep reading this review on The Kitchn!
5 quick links for the week
- My favorite piece of the week on publishing. I love seeing these real-life case studies.
- Would you want a cookbook subscription like this?
- Sigh, I love them all.
- Are you for or against all things Chip and JoJo? And did you hear about this?
- Want to read more women? Start here.
What we’re eating this week
Because I already get too many free books in my job, I’m supremely picky about which books I’ll actually fork over money for. But after two years of eyeing it (no joke), I finally turned my $35 in for a copy of Food52’s A New Way to Dinner. And oooh, I love it. I’m now using 40% less of my brain trying to contort five recipes into five weeknights, and on a Saturday morning, that is like a mini-vacation.
(Just after this picture was taken Pepper scribbled out my meal plan and wrote “HOTT DOOGZ PLZ.” She is such a bad dog. And a below-average speller.)
Monday: Chicken Cutlets with Charmoula from page 62 and beet salad from my brain. (Wouldn’t that be a great rap song? Beat salad from my brain!)
Tuesday: Grain Salad with Asparagus, Baby Turnips, Feta, and Preserved Lemon Dressing from page 61. Life hack: simplify your cooking by leaving out, like, half the ingredients from a recipe. It works wonders?
Wednesday: Low Maintenance Fish Tacos from page 85, which were truly so low maintenance there was no way for me to butcher the author’s intent by getting lazy.
Thursday: Lasagna! Sans recipe, plus so much extra cheese.
Friday: The Charmoula Quesadillas from page 65, which meet all my criteria: easy, cheesy, and… I guess I only have two criteria.
