Alison Roman

A cookbook for the next generation of home cooks, with simple of-the-moment flavors and techniques from a driving force in cooking, who is also one of the most sought-after, hip, fashionable, and energetic food writers

The beloved former senior food editor of Bon Appétit, Alison Roman is known as much for her keeper recipes as her quirky style and natural beauty. She helped turn around BA from sleepy to slick, making it a trendsetting and much talked about magazine with recipes that people clipped and actually used. In her debut cookbook, she “reunites the band,” collaborating with the photography and design team that relaunched BA.

Unfussy like the content in her “Fast Easy Fresh” column, and full of quickie techniques (think: roasted citrus, keeping boiled potatoes in your fridge), Roman’s recipes are setting today’s trends and are poised to be classics: vegetable-forward with quality ingredients that look good enough to Instagram, punctuated by standout flavors like hot honey browned butter, preserved lemon, za’atar, garlicky walnuts. Her warm, edgy writing makes the 125 recipes in Dining In intriguing enough to seduce seasoned cooks, but simple enough for the novice.