Best summer cookbooks 2018: these are the best summer cookbooks of 2018 for making the easiest, freshest meals!
Lately, I am completely drunk off the smell of fresh mown grass and the feel of warm sunshine on my face. It makes all my usual nerves and worries melt away and makes me almost giddily, irresponsibly ready to run outside and play instead of plugging away at my to-do list.
Can it be summer forever, please?
So here’s what I want to tell you this week: if you do just one thing differently now that it’s summer, cook outside. Or picnic outside. Or pour yourself a boozy lemonade, round up charcuterie board scraps, and stretch out on the grass for dinner.
The less you do, the more I will be high-fiving you.
And if you need ideas for how to eat better while doing a lot less, here are the 7 best summer cookbooks 2018 edition. These are the cookbooks coming out this summer that will get you out of that dark kitchen and into the delicious outdoors.
Best summer cookbooks 2018: new cookbooks for fresh, easy dinners
This article originally appeared on The Kitchn.
In the deepest part of our hearts we all believe one thing: you don’t really have to cook in warm weather. (You can blow it off entirely, in fact, if you cover your tracks well.)
That’s because the vegetables are blooming and the ambition is wilting just in time to call in sick and head to the beach with a bag of apricots. But after we’ve had our fill of unadulterated spring produce, our stomachs might finally start grumbling for cooked food.
Luckily, there’s a fresh batch of cookbooks this season that are going to let us outsource the thinking-and-planning part, so we can pull together easy spring dinners that hardly feel like cooking at all.
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5 quick reads for the week
- The cutest cartoon of kids at the library (“I sing the body electric!”).
- Great questions to ask when you’re creating a new culture in your story.
- Hurrying is a state of mind.
- The science of sabbaticals. (And maybe a sabbatical is just what you need to refresh the ol’ idea well?)
- So sad we missed the season this year.
What we’re eating this week
I’m here, there, and everywhere this week with work travel, and I would like to know why it is so hard to find something delicious, healthy, and not soul-suckingly boring to eat on the road. Why, why, why? Answers are demanded.
Monday: I’m in NYC, which luckily means Brazilian food at my Yaya’s. The very opposite of a sad away-from-home meal.
Tuesday: ?? Question marks for dinner? Can that be a thing?
Wednesday: Screaming at the top of my lungs at the airport until someone brings me Shake Shack. (Works e’ry time!)
Thursday: We’re blitz-flying to St. Louis, meaning I’ve hit a new personal record: 4 nights straight in a different bed. This is what New Orleans–>DC–>NYC–>St. Louis in 5 days looks like, and let me tell ya, it ain’t pretty.
Friday: I’m told I will be home on Friday, but I won’t believe it until my butt hits the couch and my Pepper Ann hits my lap.