Margaret Eby's 'You Gotta Eat' offers humorous and practical advice for tackling mealtime when cooking feels daunting. The book emphasizes creative combinations and pantry raiding, featuring unconventional recipes and tips for overcoming mealtime stress.
To get a sense of Margaret Eby’s new book, “You Gotta Eat: Real-Life Strategies for Feeding Yourself When Cooking Feels Impossible,” flip to the section called “Anything’s a sandwich if you’re not a coward.” The only requirement, she writes, is “some kind of bread or bread-like substance in order to keep the filling bounty under control. But basically, that’s where it ends.
” What follows is a series of comical treatises on combinations ranging from straightforward, such as avocado and tomato paste, to what she admits sounds weird, like canned pineapple and mayo. Throughout the book, pantry puns are mixed in with helpful tips on how to get dinner on the table when you’re overwhelmed with work or the holidays, or simply depressed. “It’s meant to kind of be like a kitchen pep talk, as well as something that gives you ideas for when you’re in that moment and you’re like, ‘Oh my God, I have to make dinner again,’” said Reby, who went to culinary school and spent years behind the scenes at glossy food publications. For when the average recipe feels too complicated A few years ago, during a dark period of pandemic malaise, she realized she and her coworkers almost never cooked the kind of multistep recipes they were selling. In the test kitchen at work, slick video and images of high-minded dishes were often the goal. For lunch, they might eat a microwave burrito. At home, she often opened a package of ramen and dressed it up with whatever happened to be in the fridge, if that. The realization led to this illustrated book, which is more of a guide to better ways of raiding the cupboard than a traditional cookbook. Besides recipes, there are also “roll your own” sections intended to let dice make decisions about what ingredients to include in bean salads, canapés, smoothies and casseroles. “Dice do not carry the force of law,” she said. She also makes the most of the freezer aisle. Crispy gnocchi or fried dumplings can be basic or borderline elaborat
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