Nourish Me Home
Cortney Burns is a chef, an author, and a tastemaker who’s always been in the vanguard of the food world. In this book, which combines recipes and mysticism in a way that’s never been seen before, she shares guidance and wisdom about how making changes in your life will change the food you eat.
Organized into chapters by element — water, fire, earth, air, aether — here are 125 recipes, ranging from salads and mains to desserts and drinks. The water chapter explores soups and stews, while the fire chapter delves into cooking meat over heat and the earth chapter takes a deep dive into vegetables. The aether chapter contains tonics, spirits, and other great-for-you drinks, dips, nibbles, and stocks.
As in Cortney’s award-winning cookbook Bar Tartine, there’s a larder section of several dozen building-block recipes: simple sauces, infused vinegars, toasted seed mixtures, and pickles that enliven any dish, from a baked sweet potato to a bowl of sliced cucumbers.
This book provides a springboard for home cooks to bring all of their life experiences to their cooking. We tear up roots. We reroot. We turn to the stove. We nourish ourselves home.
