DINNER AT MINE?
Kate Young has a literary sensibility and a keen palate, both of which lead me to regard her books as indispensable reading, but her latest book would be enough to win me over eagerly even if I had come across it in a vacuum. The premise is clever, but practical… accessible and welcoming.
— Nigella Lawson
There are peas in the freezer, apples in the bowl, a cabbage in the vegetable drawer, tins of cannellini beans and anchovies in the cupboard, and eggs on the side.
You've got the beginnings of dinner, no question.
You just need a little inspiration.
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It's so special to find a book that works like this - recipes that leave space for the waxing and waning of the dinner table across the course of the week. I really, really enjoyed the clarity and the tenderness of the writing. It's such a wonderful book ― Ruby Tandoh
As well as superb recipes that I return to again and again, it's Kate's voice that I have always loved so much in her books and in this new one there are sweet, simple pleasures aplenty plus great new ideas for the home cook. A gorgeous, moreish book. ― Caroline Eden
The most generous and practical of cooks has written the most useful of books. ― Ella Risbridger
Kate makes the exact kind of food I want to eat and cook. This is the kind of cooking that you can imagine memories are made from - unfussy, generous, thoughtful - and guaranteed to have your friends and family inviting themselves over for dinner at yours. ― Emiko Davies
Overflowing with warmth and wit, Dinner at Mine? is a goldmine of information - as inspiring in its approach to bottom-of-the-fridge vegetables as it is about fancy ingredients. Destined to become a kitchen staple at my house (and probably yours). ― Julia Armfield
Signed copies at:
Borderless Books, Stroud
Forum Books, Corbridge
Kate Young’s gloriously thoughtful and nostalgic niche is taking the foods mentioned in fiction, eaten by some of our collective favourite characters in literature, and making them real and edible.
The Scotsman, October 2020
The Little Library Cookbook (2017)
Shortlisted for the Fortnum & Mason debut book award, winner of the World Gourmand prize for Food Writing, and one of the Guardian’s food books of the year in 2017. 100 recipes inspired by beloved novels.
The Little Library Year (2019)
”A wonderful, brilliant book. Instantly comforting, effortlessly beautiful and suffused with the generosity that's at the heart of any good meal” — Ruby Tandoh.
Follows a year of eating and reading recommendations, and was shortlisted for the Guild of Food Writers’ General Cookbook prize.
The Little Library Christmas (2020)
A bestseller, reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement as “good for the armchair, good for the kitchen… transportive… enhancing and useful…. above all, a hopeful book”.
The Little Library Parties (2022)
Reviewed by Diana Henry in the Telegraph as “a great present for the literature-loving and the greedy”, and filled with delicious ideas for dinner parties, house parties, garden parties, and weddings.
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The Dinner Table: 100 Conversations About Food, an anthology written and edited alongside Ella Risbridger.
“A gorgeous collection: if you savour words quite as much as food, this is for you!”
Nigella Lawson
“It's blowing my mind that I'm in an anthology with Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf and Jack Kerouac!!!”
THE Kevin Kwan