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The New York Times Cooking No-Recipe Recipes: [A Cookbook]
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The debut cookbook from the popular New York Times website and mobile app NYT Cooking, featuring 100 vividly photographed no-recipe recipes to make weeknight cooking more inspired and delicious—featuring a convenient flexibound format.
ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR: Vanity Fair, Time Out, Salon, Publishers Weekly
You don’t need a recipe. Really, you don’t.
Sam Sifton, founding editor of New York Times Cooking, makes improvisational cooking easier than you think. In this handy book of ideas, Sifton delivers more than one hundred no-recipe recipes—each gloriously photographed—to make with the ingredients you have on hand or could pick up on a quick trip to the store. You’ll see how to make these meals as big or as small as you like, substituting ingredients as you go.
Fried Egg Quesadillas. Pizza without a Crust. Weeknight Fried Rice. Pasta with Garbanzos. Roasted Shrimp Tacos. Chicken with Caramelized Onions and Croutons. Oven S’Mores. Welcome home to freestyle, relaxed cooking that is absolutely yours. Read more
Editor's Take
Amazon reviewers say this cookbook is creative, inspiring, and easy to follow, with flexible guidance that helps readers improvise in the kitchen. Multiple review sites describe it as best suited to confident or adventurous home cooks rather than recipe purists.
On Reddit and forums, discussion around Sam Sifton’s approach is generally positive for people who like loose, idea-driven cooking, with praise for the book’s practical, low-fuss style and attractive presentation. Review blogs also highlight that it works well as a set of cooking ideas rather than a strict step-by-step manual.
YouTube: Search results surfaced real videos about the book, including a close-up/inside-look product video and a related cooking discussion featuring Sam Sifton. The available results did not provide enough reliable evidence here to extract verified 11-character video IDs from confirmed youtube.com/watch?v= URLs.
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Specifications
| Publisher | Ten Speed Press |
| Publication date | March 16, 2021 |
| Language | English |
| Print length | 256 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1984858475 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1984858474 |
| Item Weight | 1.64 pounds |
| Dimensions | 6.5 x 9.02 x 1 inches |
| Best Sellers Rank | #15,407 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #36 in Christmas Cooking #85 in U.S. Regional Cooking, Food & Wine #115 in Celebrity & TV Show Cookbooks |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (1,675) |
