Will This Make You Happy, a narrative cookbook about desire and dessert is available for preorder, releasing March 3rd.
Preorder on Bookshop
Preorder on Barnes and Noble
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Will This Make You Happy, a narrative cookbook about desire and dessert is available for preorder, releasing March 3rd.
Preorder on Bookshop
Preorder on Barnes and Noble
Preorder on Amazon
Preorder signed/personalized copies from McNally Jackson
Praise
“Will This Make You Happy is an ode to the wild pleasures of transformation—how sugar and heat become sustenance, how a psychic flatline shivers upward into curiosity and hope. I gulped it down, eager for every last crumb—and will be grateful for its gospel of mess and care for the rest of my days.”
— Leslie Jamison, author of Splinters and Make It Scream, Make It Burn
“Beautiful—smart, funny, and effortlessly lyrical. Lots of books capture the romance of the kitchen, and lots address the emotional knots of cooking and eating, but Will This Make You Happy does both. It reminds me of so many writers whose work I love and return to and have learned from. Assured and brilliant.”
— Ruby Tandoh, bestselling and award-winning author of Cook As You Are and Eat Up!
“This is an entirely different kind of cookbook, one that makes you want to curl up and read it cover to cover. That is, until you’re overcome by the urge to bake a Neapolitan Pavlova. Once in the kitchen, with Bush’s luminous prose and gentle instruction, you can bake your way to catharsis. I loved it.”
— Sohla El-Waylly, James Beard Award winner and author of Start Here
— Leslie Jamison, author of Splinters and Make It Scream, Make It Burn
“Beautiful—smart, funny, and effortlessly lyrical. Lots of books capture the romance of the kitchen, and lots address the emotional knots of cooking and eating, but Will This Make You Happy does both. It reminds me of so many writers whose work I love and return to and have learned from. Assured and brilliant.”
— Ruby Tandoh, bestselling and award-winning author of Cook As You Are and Eat Up!
“This is an entirely different kind of cookbook, one that makes you want to curl up and read it cover to cover. That is, until you’re overcome by the urge to bake a Neapolitan Pavlova. Once in the kitchen, with Bush’s luminous prose and gentle instruction, you can bake your way to catharsis. I loved it.”
— Sohla El-Waylly, James Beard Award winner and author of Start Here
“In what feels like literary magic, Tanya Bush bakes every element of taste and every sensation of sweet, salty, bitter, and sour into her recipes and, most enticingly, into her stories. We follow her through a year of confusion, love, infatuation, and disappointment; of discovery and pleasure. That we ride the ups and downs with Bush, feel the dizziness and the joy, and see her world through her sharp eyes is a measure of her talent: She is such a good writer.”
— Dorie Greenspan, five-time James Beard Award winner
“In loving and tender prose, Tanya Bush writes honestly and lyrically about finding one’s way through life’s downs and ups, through depression and desire. Her recipes will make you happy: unfussy, resourceful, and comforting all at once. Forsyth Harmon’s accompanying illustrations are magical.”
— Rachel Khong, bestselling author of Real Americans
“For fans of Nigel Slater and Sally Rooney, this lushly illustrated and gorgeously photographed cookbook / love story is for anyone who has wished that the headnote of a recipe also detailed the myriad desires and failures that went into each bite.”
— Catherine Lacey, author of Biography of X and The Möbius Book
— Dorie Greenspan, five-time James Beard Award winner
“In loving and tender prose, Tanya Bush writes honestly and lyrically about finding one’s way through life’s downs and ups, through depression and desire. Her recipes will make you happy: unfussy, resourceful, and comforting all at once. Forsyth Harmon’s accompanying illustrations are magical.”
— Rachel Khong, bestselling author of Real Americans
“For fans of Nigel Slater and Sally Rooney, this lushly illustrated and gorgeously photographed cookbook / love story is for anyone who has wished that the headnote of a recipe also detailed the myriad desires and failures that went into each bite.”
— Catherine Lacey, author of Biography of X and The Möbius Book