Ella Risbridger

Ella Risbridger is a British food writer, author, and journalist whose writing about cooking, love, and grief has won her a devoted following. She studied English at the University of Oxford and has written for publications including the Guardian. She is best known for Midnight Chicken, a cookbook-memoir that is really about how cooking can save your life. Midnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living For began as a blog post about making roast chicken at midnight during a period of severe depression and grief, and became a bestselling book that combines recipes with deeply personal essays about love, loss, and the healing power of making something with your hands. In Love with Love continues her exploration of the ways food, stories, and relationships sustain us through life's hardest moments. Her audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers something rare — food writing that is really about being alive, told with warmth, honesty, and the conviction that a good meal can be an act of survival and an act of love.