Cravings: Recipes for All the Food You Want to Eat: A Cookbook by Chrissy Teigen

One sentence summary

Cravings: Recipes for All the Food You Want to Eat: A Cookbook by Chrissy Teigen is a collection of comfort food recipes for everyday cooking that is perfect for beginner cooks.

Book genre

Cookbook

Main topic of the book

Recipes for comfort food

Key ideas

• Simple Recipes – Featuring easy-to-follow recipes that don’t require a lot of ingredients or kitchen tools, designed to make comfort food easy to make.
• Ingredient Substitutions – Suggestions of ingredient substitutions for those who have dietary restrictions or are unable to find particular ingredients.
• Accessible Ingredients – Recipes made with mostly everyday store-bought ingredients, so there’s no need to go to specialty stores for uncommon items.

Main parts of the book and a short summary

• Breakfast – Recipes for breakfast favorites like pancakes, French toast, frittatas, and breakfast sandwiches.
• Main Dishes – Recipes for all types of main dishes, from pizzas to pastas, tacos to kabobs, and sandwiches to soups.
• Appetizers and Snacks – Recipes for snacks like popcorn, tortilla chips, and dips, to appetizers like mozzarella sticks and scallion pancakes.
• Sides – Recipes for delicious side dishes like mac & cheese, roasted potatoes, and cornbread.
• Desserts – Recipes for sweets like cookies, brownies, cakes, cupcakes, and pies.

Key takeaways

• Cravings: Recipes for All the Food You Want to Eat: A Cookbook offers comfort food for everyday cooking, perfect for beginner cooks.
• Featuring easy-to-follow recipes that don’t require a lot of ingredients or kitchen tools, designed to make comfort food easy to make.
• Suggestions of ingredient substitutions for those who have dietary restrictions or are unable to find particular ingredients.
• Most recipes made with mostly everyday store-bought ingredients, so there’s no need to go to specialty stores for uncommon items.

Author’s background and qualifications

Chrissy Teigen is a model, television host, and cookbook author. She is a National Magazine Award Winner, and has cooked on shows like Today, the Cooking Channel, and FABLife. She’s been featured in Vogue, Sports Illustrated, and Vanity Fair, and has cooked for the Obama White House.

Target audience

This cookbook is perfect for beginner cooks who want to make delicious comfort food meals.

Publisher and first publication date

Cravings: Recipes for All the Food You Want to Eat: A Cookbook was published by Clarkson Potter Publishers on April 7th 2016.

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