With Nothing Fancy, any … Nothing Fancy… Michele Moses on Alison Roman’s recent cookbook, “Nothing Fancy,” and its advocacy of making both food and entertaining accessible and stress-free.

For the month of January, I selected Nothing Fancy by Alison Roman as my choice for Cookbook of the Month.January (and all the months post-holidays but pre-spring) can be a tricky food month because after the holidays we sometimes crave lighter fare, but sometimes the weather and gray days call for comfort food. Alison Roman will give you the food your people want (think DIY martini bar, platters of tomatoes, pots of coconut-braised chicken and chickpeas, pans of lemony turmeric tea cake) plus the tips, sass, and confidence to pull it all off. And despite my husband's resistance to her millennial bossy meme-ness, he does agree that her recipes are generally v. delicious. Alison Roman is not for everyone, but she is definitely for me.

Proceed only if you highly enjoy lemon in everything, buckets of olive oil, and the occasional anchovy.

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