A question of waste not waist not, USE IT ALL is an invitation to reduce food waste while eating generously, while not getting your pantries in a knot.
If it dealt with the primarily carnivore, USE IT ALL would be a snout to tail tome, but it’s emphasis is more omnivore is more than a cookbook, it’s a kitchen guide to modern food wisdom that will help readers find the wholly trinity of balance… Buy less, buy whole, use it all.
For years Alex Elliott-Howery and Jaimee Edwards, from boundary-breaking food community Cornersmith, experimented in their home kitchens to figure out how to feed their families efficiently, affordably and sustainably. The result is USE IT ALL.
Structured around weekly seasonal shopping baskets, it includes over 230 recipes with alternative flavour combinations so you can adapt a recipe to what you have on hand – no more excuses for breeding penicillin in the fridge.
The book is peppered with foundation recipes, flexible blue prints that allow cooks to be architects of their own creations, whether they’re designer dinners, bespoke breakfasts, or something in between.
No scrimping and saving to make scrumptious suppers, USE IT ALL ignites ingenious ideas to make the most of each ingredient so that a little goes a long way and there’s wise waste hacks for turning tired produce or off cuts into something edible – truly, madly, deliciously.
USE IT ALL offers a simple, delicious way to cook and eat by buying less, wasting less and making more with what you’ve got. It’s a war on a waste, a war on waist, and victory in the specific.
More than a mere cook book, USE IT ALL is a discerning guided discovery, a set of suggestions to help you navigate the myriad maps to marvellous menus. A veritable cartography to culinary exploration.
Authors Alex Elliott-Howery and Jaimee Edwards are recon warriors in the war on food waste. Alex is co-founder of boundary-breaking food
community Cornersmith in Sydney, while Jaimee teaches fermentation and traditional cooking skills at the Cornersmith cooking school.
USE IT ALL by Alex Elliott-Howery and Jamie Edwards is published by Murdoch Books