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Midnight Chicken
- Narrator
- Ella Risbridger
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 31 December 2020
- Run Time
- 6 hours 42 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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Winner of the Guild of Food Writers General Cookbook Award 2020
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‘A manual for living and a declaration of hope’ – Nigella Lawson
‘Beautiful, life-affirming memoir with recipes ... The most talented British debut writer in a generation’ – Sunday Times
'Brave and moving ... as effective as a manual for life as it is as a kitchen companion' – Shamil Thakrar, co-founder of Dishoom
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There are lots of ways to start a story, but this one begins with a chicken.
Because one night, Ella found herself lying on her kitchen floor, wondering if she would ever get up – and it was the thought of a chicken, of roasting it, and of eating it, that got her to her feet and made her want to be alive.
Midnight Chicken is the story of Ella’s life in a Tiny Flat, and the food she cooked there. From roast garlic and tomato soup to charred leek lasagne or burntbutter brownies, she shares recipes that are about people, about love, about the things that matter every day. This is a cookbook-of-stories to make you fall in love with the world again.
With a new afterword about life after The Tiny Flat.
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'An utter treat' – Dolly Alderton
'Divine. Utterly totally perfect' – Charly Cox
'Generous, honest and uplifting' – Diana Henry
'So thoughtfully and poetically written' – Josie Long
'She cooks like a dream and writes like an angel' – Sarah Phelps
'She has found a way to write not just about food itself but, more importantly, about the darkness for which cooking can be a partial remedy' – Bee Wilson
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Critics Review
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A manual for living and a declaration of hope
Nigella Lawson
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An utter treat
Dolly Alderton
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The most talented British debut writer in a generation
Sunday Times
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A moving testimonial to the redemptive power of cooking. Risbridger knows that it offers not just solace but a map; cooking can save you. Generous, honest and uplifting. I wish I’d had this book when I was in my twenties
Diana Henry
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Her writing is beautiful, brave and moving. She shares wholeheartedly with her reader, not just of her experience, but also herself. This is a book for all seasons and states of mind and is as effective as a manual for life as it is as a kitchen companion
Shamil Thakrar, co-founder of Dishoom
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Divine. Utterly totally perfect
Charly Cox
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So full of loving kindness and so thoughtfully and poetically written
Josie Long
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She cooks like a dream and writes like an angel
Sarah Phelps
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She has found a way to write not just about food itself but, more importantly, about the darkness for which cooking can be a partial remedy
Bee Wilson
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Details
- Author
- Ella Risbridger, illustrated by Elisa Cunningham
- Narrator
- Ella Risbridger
- Duration
- 6 hours 42 minutes
- Release Date
- 31 December 2020
- ISBN
- 9781526629791
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Genre
- Memoirs, Comfort food and food nostalgia, Health and wholefood cookery / healthy eating, Coping with / advice about mental health issues or topics
Synopsis
Bloomsbury presents Midnight Chicken written and read by Ella Risbridger._________________Winner of the Guild of Food Writers General Cookbook Award 2020_________________‘A manual for living and a declaration of hope’ – Nigella Lawson‘Beautiful, life-affirming memoir with recipes ... The most talented British debut writer in a generation’ – Sunday Times'Brave and moving ... as effective as a manual for life as it is as a kitchen companion' – Shamil Thakrar, co-founder of Dishoom_________________There are lots of ways to start a story, but this one begins with a chicken.Because one night, Ella found herself lying on her kitchen floor, wondering if she would ever get up – and it was the thought of a chicken, of roasting it, and of eating it, that got her to her feet and made her want to be alive.Midnight Chicken is the story of Ella’s life in a Tiny Flat, and the food she cooked there. From roast garlic and tomato soup to charred leek lasagne or burntbutter brownies, she shares recipes that are about people, about love, about the things that matter every day. This is a cookbook-of-stories to make you fall in love with the world again.With a new afterword about life after The Tiny Flat._________________'An utter treat' – Dolly Alderton'Divine. Utterly totally perfect' – Charly Cox'Generous, honest and uplifting' – Diana Henry'So thoughtfully and poetically written' – Josie Long'She cooks like a dream and writes like an angel' – Sarah Phelps'She has found a way to write not just about food itself but, more importantly, about the darkness for which cooking can be a partial remedy' – Bee Wilson_________________
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