Cookbooks
‘Kitchen Remix’ Is for This Moment
A new cookbook inspires us to be creative with the ingredients in our pantry
Charlotte Druckman has good timing. Following Women on Food — an anthology that debuted alongside the #MeToo movement — she‘s released her second book in six months: Kitchen Remix: 75 Recipes for Making the Most of Your Ingredients — just as we’re stuck at home cooking through what we have on hand.
Lucky for us, Kitchen Remix inspires creativity with pantry items, through 25 sets of three ingredients — each set followed by three recipes, along with options for spinoffs. So, the section on cannellini beans, garlic, and chili features one recipe for a pot of beans, then another for recooked beans — “if you try it this way, you’ll strengthen the comparison that’s often made between this dish and mashed potatoes.” The third recipe of the set is Fool’s ful, the Egyptian dish that she says “won’t pass for the real thing,” but she’s hoping you’ll appreciate the riffs. Great with eggs and pita for breakfast, it’s the recipe that, four years after she wrote it, she goes back to again and again.
“It feels timely because people are so interested in Middle Eastern food now,” she says, “and tahini has become a pantry staple across the country.” It has “this little bit of…
