Steamed: A Catharsis Cookbook for Getting Dinner and Your Feelings On the Table

by Rachel Levin, Tara Duggan

Whip, pound, grate, and grind your way to culinary catharsis with Steamed, an irreverent cookbook for when you need to get dinner and your feelings on the table.Where is taking your feelings out with heavy mallets and sharp knives not just allowed—but encouraged? The kitchen, of course! And in Steamed, acclaimed food writers Rachel Levin and Tara Duggan offer readers fifty funny, feisty, and full-flavored dishes to channel frustration and rage into something utterly delicious.

For those inevitable moments when you're boiling over, steaming mad, or just plain fried, turn to:


Pounded Chicken Parmesan
Ripped Bread Salad
Feeling Sad French Onion Soup
Tune-It-Out Tinga
Wailing Wasabi Tuna Bowl
 . . . and many more in this ultimate ode to finding your chef's knife-wielding, onion-crying, chicken-pounding culinary release.

Playful sidebars, including "Beat It All Out: When You Just Want to Whisk Like a Wild Woman," teach technique and channel all those feelings into your new favorite dinner. For anyone looking for stress eating's more constructive cousin, Steamed and catharsis cooking are here to lend a helping hand—or cleaver.

Genres: Cookbooks, Food

168 pages, Hardcover

First published May 4, 2021

About the author

Rachel Levin is the first San Francisco restaurant critic for Eater and a freelance journalist who has written for the New York Times, the New Yorker, Outside, Sunset, and elsewhere. LOOK BIG is her first book.

Reviews

[Katie Johnson · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is everything right now. What an awesome book.