“Dining In is exactly how I want to cook: with bright, fresh flavors, minimal technique, and no pretense… This isn’t just a bunch of great recipes, but a manifesto on how one, original, opinionated home cook sees the world.”

AMANDA HESSER
CO-FOUNDER, FOOD52

Alison Roman is known as much for her keeper recipes as her wry Instagram voice and effortless style. Her debut cookbook features 125 recipes for simple, of-the-moment dishes that are full of quickie techniques (think slathering roast chicken in anchovy butter, roasting citrus to bring out new flavors, and keeping boiled potatoes in your fridge for instant crispy smashed potatoes). Roman’s recipes set today’s trends and will show up as tomorrow’s classics: vegetable-forward with quality ingredients, punctuated by standout flavors like hot honey browned butter, preserved lemon, za’atar, and garlicky walnuts. Her ingenuity will seduce seasoned cooks, while her warm, edgy writing makes these recipes practical enough for the novice. Cooking through Dining In will be like having Alison right there with you in the kitchen: brash, funny, and full of opinions.

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