In this book, I share my secrets for creating delicious meals every day, without pretending to weave my own water or knit my own tahini. I offer up the life- and dinner-saving lessons I've learned in all of the kitchens I have cooked in, and share the daring tales of disaster too.

All the chapters are shot through with tales of my favourite meals, foreign and domestic, from margarita pie baked one golden Texan summer, and dinners cooked for diplomats in a tiny Moscow kitchen, to weeknight dinners with ingredients foraged from my local Turkish supermarket in London, a city where myriad cultures mix, where every ingredient is available, and every single one comes with a story. In this collection of warm, candid essays and over 70 recipes, food writer and Telegraph columnist Debora Robertson celebrates the comfort to be found in the everyday, the delight in the ordinary, and the joys, pleasures and challenges of domestic life, from roasting a chicken and making marmalade to learning how to throw a party without losing your mind.

Other cookbooks by this author

• Bone Appétit: 50 Clean Recipes for Healthier, Happier Dogs
• Cooking for Cats: The healthy, happy way to feed your cat
• Gifts from the Garden: 100 Gorgeous Homegrown Presents
• Gifts from the Garden: 100 Gorgeous Homegrown Presents
• Notes from a Small Kitchen Island