COOKING AS THOUGH YOU MIGHT COOK AGAIN

by DANIEL LICHT
WITH PHOTOGRAPHS BY LAURA LETINSKY

Cooking As Though You Might Cook Again invites us to cook with our senses and to work with the passage of time. Licht’s lyrical recipes turn our attention away from strict measurements, and remind us of the pleasures and the importance of working with what we have.

January, 2021
$23.00

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PRAISE 

NAMED A BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR by The New Yorker

A collection of “delightful hybrid recipe-essays”
—The Atlantic

Small, brilliant, diaristic, an anti-recipe recipe collection that feels like art.
—Helen Rosner

Cooking As Though You Might Cook Again is like an impossibly lucky yard sale find: a personal kitchen journal that was somehow written just for you. Like a handful of dry beans, Danny Licht’s recipes grow, with a rustic everyday magic, to fill all your pots. Follow the rhythm, as I have, of this stern and sweet set of instructions and it will become your daily beat.
—Cal Peternell, author of Twelve Recipes

The 78-page zine-like book encourages home cooks to view the task of preparing a meal not as a chore but as an act of emotional nourishment. Just as Licht prompts his readers to slow down and appreciate the process of assembling ingredients and letting them meld, his conversational language is best savored unhurriedly. The instructions for the simple Italian-ish dishes—a pot of beans, a creamy lemon risotto, pasta with braised chuck roast—cultivate an intuitive and meditative approach to putting food on the table.
—Morgan Ome, The Atlantic

ABOUT THE AUTHOR 

Daniel Licht is the author of two books, Cooking As Though You Might Cook Again (2021) and The Point of View for My Work as an Artist (2023). He lives in New York