For the hungry but clean-eating foodie
RM170Sorrel-pesto rice bowls topped with a poached egg, fresh seasonal jams and house ricotta on burnt brioche toast, sticky toffee whole-wheat cake with brown sugar and sea salt, butternut squash latkes with crème fraîche and apple sauce; all dishes from ‘Everything I Want to Eat: The New California Comfort Food from LA’s Sqirl’. Jessica Koslow, owner of LA’s cult-favourite tiny café
Sqirl, has come up with one of the year’s most beautiful cookbooks.
Divided into simple chapters such as ‘Vegetables’, ‘Meat’, ‘Grains’, ‘Drinks’ and ‘Desserts’, ‘Everything I Want to Eat’ is a natural and much-welcomed progression to the food scene. Somewhat healthy, but sometimes just straight-up delicious, the dishes by Koslow are difficult to categorise. There are vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options, but it’s all dishes from Sqirl’s kitchens.
The photography is stark, layout is ultra-hipster (think a giant hardcover Kinfolk with photos of vibrant food and farms), but recipes are thankfully straightforward. If the clean-eating person in your life is running out of dishes to experiment with, buy them ‘Everything’.