In-Store: Camille Becerra: Bright Cooking w/ Klancy Miller

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From celebrated chef and tastemaker Camille Becerra: a uniquely beautiful primer that teaches home cooks new ways of cooking and thinking about nourishing, flavorful foods.
Great food should look beautiful, taste special, and make you feel good.
In Bright Cooking, her highly anticipated first cookbook, Camille Becerra, acclaimed chef at the Ace Hotel’s As You Are, offers 140+ fresh, natural dishes to boost one’s body and mood with plant-based, healthful ingredients. More than 90 foundational pantry basics—mother sauces, broths, dusts, finishing oils, and more—are combined in uncommon and uncomplicated ways to create 50+ eat-anytime dishes.
Say you went to the farmers’ market and bought some beautiful chicories. From there, you could add some Chili Mushroom Pickle and swirl on some Crispy Honey Chile Oil from your pantry to create Maple Chicories with Chile Honey. Maybe you’re not in the mood to put together an involved meal, but you picked up some squash at the market—you could char it and nestle it in a cloud of Fennel Pollen Yogurt with a dusting of pistachios for a thrown-together treat, or add Coconut-Ginger Broth and curry paste to create a warming, brothy bowl.
Bright Cooking inspires you to create based on what you have in your kitchen, what you hunger for, and what your body is asking for. With advice throughout on adding big flavor and playfulness to your repertoire, Bright Cooking is a uniquely beautiful primer that teaches home cooks new ways of cooking and thinking about nourishing, flavorful food. After you work your way through the book, you’ll only be a smear of this, a few sprinkles of that, and a pinch of flourish away from confidence and creative freedom in the kitchen—and you’ll feel amazing, inside and out.

Camille Becerra is a chef, food stylist, and recipe developer. With close to fifteen years of restaurant experience at Paloma, her first restaurant; Navy, a small space in SoHo; Café Henrie on the Lower East Side; and DeMaria in Nolita, her menus display her commitment to healthful, seasonal, and local ingredients and her affection for approachable yet refined New American cuisine. She is a food contributor at Domino magazine and often partners with brands that fit her travel and food aesthetic. She lives in New York City.

Klancy Miller is the founder of For the Culture: A Magazine Celebrating Black Women and Femmes in Food and Wine and the author of Cooking Solo. Klancy earned a diplôme de pâtisserie from Le Cordon Bleu Paris, apprenticed in the pastry kitchen at the Michelin-starred restaurant Taillevent, and then joined Le Cordon Bleu’s recipe development team. Now based in Brooklyn, she continues to write about food and has contributed to the New York Times, the Washington Post, Food and Wine, Vogue, Bon Appétit Cherry Bombe, and Food52. She has appeared on the Today show and in the Wall Street Journal, The Cut, the New York Times Food section, as well as on Food Network’s Recipe for Success and the Cooking Channel’s Unique Sweets. She was honored as a 2022 IACP Trailblazer Awards Winner. Klancy lives in Brooklyn.

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