Let Alice Zaslavsky, international bestselling author of the James Beard Book Awards nominee, In Praise of Veg, lead you on a journey to confident, intuitive cooking — because if you already enjoy the eating part, you have everything it takes to get better at the cooking part too.

This vibrant kitchen manual contains stacks of vegetable-forward recipes that you’ll want to cook every week and handy kitchen skills and thrills, to help build the foundations for a lifetime of better cooking. With Better Cooking, there’s no pressure to be a perfect cook, but everyone can aspire to be a better cook, and therein lies the fun.

To help all cooks — from beginner to experienced — every recipe, tip and trick acts as another stepping stone to finding joy and confidence in the kitchen. Inside, you’ll find chapters including:

• Slapdash: outstanding stuff simply thrown together

• On Autopilot: your new go-tos for quick and easy weeknight meals

• Making the Most of It: what to do with all those leftovers

• Loosen Your Shoulders: weekend projects and entertaining

• Seriously Good Sweeties: like, seriously good

Whether you’re already a dab hand, or you’re a reluctant home cook who finds cooking a bit meh, or you’re starting from ‘Which way do I hold a knife?’, Better Cooking has all the inspiration, hand-holding and cheerleading you need to relax into the rhythm and truly enjoy your time in the kitchen.

• Hardcover / 320 pages
• Published 6 February 2024