A review by linde_euw
Nothing Fancy: Unfussy Food for Having People Over by Alison Roman

5.0

My family and I love this book! Most of the recipes are simple enough, very flavourful, and a lot of them have become staples in our household. There’s also some great dessert dishes in here, mostly pies and cookies, that type of stuff. We especially love her chicken recipes. My one critique would be that many of the more involved recipes seem to require one or two “specialty” ingredients that can be hard to get depending on where you live, so for example gochujiang or fresh turmeric. And as many people have said, she does cook with very outspoken flavours (salty and sour/tangy in particular), which results in her using lots of thing like anchovies, preserved lemon, pickles etc. which may not be to everyone’s taste. I personally love it, but if you’re not sure, you can look up some of her videos on youtube (just type in ‘alison roman’) and see if you like her style of cooking. She’s recently made some videos about recipes from this book. Hope this helps any people who are on the fence!