When we were casting about, looking for our August cookbook, we found the books on the best seller list somewhat…dire. It felt as if each one fell into one of three categories: diet cookbooks, air-fryer cookbooks, or budget eating cookbooks. We face this conundrum every January, when the food and drink section is laden with diet books, but we weren’t expecting it in the middle of the year.
Now each of those categories have their time and their place, particularly if you’re looking to lose weight, use your air-fryer or try to spend less on food, but we weren’t trying to do any of those things this month, so that eliminated a lot of choices for us.
Mob is a website that was born out of helping university students learn how to cook and now is so much more. In fact, Elena Silcock, who wrote the salad cookbook we loved so much in July, writes recipes for Mob as well. It’s all about healthy and interesting food. Its online recipe assortment is impressive. In fact, it’ll be interesting to see how many recipes that we use in the book can be found online.
In some ways, this month’s book is almost a sequel to July’s. Maybe not a sequel exactly, but certainly a pivot. The recipes read similarly, the ingredients are similar, and to use a category from last month, the vibe is similar.
Given that we ate so well in July, we’re cautiously optimistic that August will be another good month. We’ll see.
A cookbook a month 