Okay, this book is not a traditional cookbook with exact recipes but it does contain guidelines on how to prepare different dishes and proteins.

The digital version didn’t catch my attention like the print version. Once, I purchased the book, I noticed these great essays from experts pertaining to a plethora of food knowledge. That was the most surprising part of the book.

I found when the promotion was happening, the focus was on the chef, David Chang, and not the actual book. This did the book a disservice.

If you like learning and experimenting, this book is for you.

Do not buy this book because of the chef. You will be disappointed.

What a great collaboration between two talented chefs, running the gamut from easy to advanced, all with permission to enjoy your food, and the process of making it. Great for anyone who feels intimidated by the rigidity of recipes.

An enjoyable book with great recipes that are easy to follow. I would recommend to any keen cooks or anyone looking for easy recipes to try at home

When reading this book, I was aghast at first, and awed by the book's authors. It was fun reading the book (yes, I read cook books), and amusing. Agreeing by their statements, that we perceived taste according to how we grow up with what kind of foods, this book is to be read carefully. One Korean and one Indian created a cook book together, already amazed me. And because the main focus is on how David Chang perceived foods, the footnotes include by Priya Krishna are so refreshing. This is what we need, I suppose, how you create food according to your taste.

This was an enjoyable book. There's a nice mix of easy to follow recipes and some more advanced recipes to keep you interested.

How do David Chang and Priya Krishna do it? This cookbook is full of information but highly accessible! I was expecting a more traditionally styled cookbook, boy was I wrong. The eye catching colorful pages are such to draw you into simple, yet deep recipes. There is bound to be some combination of foods within these pages to reignite an interest in exploring the world of your home kitchen. Happy eating!

This is hands down the coolest cookbook. The authors give you permission to just cook. If it tastes good and you like it? Make it. This isn’t a hard rules “you must do this or that” book. It tells you what they like and how they do things and teach you to trust yourself.

This book was a fun cookbook. It had a nice combination of simple recipes and some more advanced recipes. There was something for everyone in this book.

I wanted to read this book because of its concepts. The idea of learning how to cook intuitively. And I think that is delivered pretty well.
After reading the whole thing through, I feel like I have some ideas in the back of my mind that I want to test out. And this book will help me to try things and get out of my comfort zone.
That being said, I think some things were a bit off.
I didn't love the pictures. It may have to do with the free copy I was kindly given. But they weren't out of this world. And there were some format errors. But I can get past that.
Then it all felt a bit desorgnized. Not crazy so, but still.

And the last thing I want to say is from my point of view and I understand that. I'm from Europe. And because of that, many techniques or ingredients are out of my reach. Just different diets and cooking style. All is OK in the end. But just wanted to point that out.
I know they address the privilege of us, Europeans in this book. And I agree with them. When talking about writing a cookbook and all that. 100% with them.

Also, thank you to NetGalley for providing a free copy. All the opinions above are my own.

Four Stars.
There's a quote from Rachel Khong at the end of Cooking At Home that sums up the book so well. "You can cook with whatever you have on hand, and food can be imperfect and still a miracle... know and feel confident that you can put food on the table - delicious and nourishing food..."

I love love love the concept of this book - flexibility, experimentation, going your own way. If you want to learn to cook, this might not be the best cookbook to start with, but if you're feeling ready to branch out on your own, ditch those stuffy recipes, trust yourself and try new things, you should definitely try Cooking at Home. I think that most intermediate home cooks will be able to use this book to hone their skills, and most (if not all) of the recommended ingredients should be easy enough to source and use.

That said, I wish there were some more plant-based recipes, and the pictures and layout probably don't do the food or the book itself justice - but even so, I would definitely recommend this book to pretty much anyone who cooks.

Thanks to NetGalley and Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed Press for the opportunity to read and review Cooking at Home.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for the electronic review copy of this book. This is a great and slightly unusual book that explains methods of cooking rather than giving precise recipes. It provides loose guides to make some easy and delicious food at home, explaining why things work as one tastes and adjusts meals to personal preference. I really enjoyed this conversation-like book and am looking forward to putting Dave and Priya’s suggestions to practice.

David Chang and Priya Krishna have teamed up to write a very unique cookbook, Cooking at Home: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Recipes (And Love My Microwave): A Cookbook. This cookbook is for everyone who doesn’t like to follow a recipe, bur still wants to prepare fabulous food. This innovative cookbook shows cooks how to prepare different things, such as pork butt, and then several ideas on how to use it. Not only does it introduce great main dishes, but also ideas for leftovers that are completely unlike the main dish.

The book is colorful, and upbeat. The chapters introduce cooking techniques and ideas that will appeal to almost everyone. Also included are beautiful photographs. The ideas are unique and have flavors from all over the world. There is nothing boring in this cookbook, and it will appeal not only to advanced cooks, but also beginning cooks. Most of the dishes are easy to put together, and the dishes from the leftovers are also easy.

Although the “recipes” aren’t written in traditional form, the ideas are easy to follow and will give way to more ideas. Included are instruction for purchasing ingredients, putting together condiments, how to season food, favorite ingredients to keep on hand, and suggested equipment. There is an excellent chapter on cooking meat that can be used in dozens of dishes.

All told, this is a great book and it’s fun to read. It gives a different perspective on cooking that will be very appealing to many cooks.

Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.

This is not a cookbook. Or at least it's not your conventional cookbook with, let's say, recipes. Instead, co-author Priya Krishna has captured the wide-ranging wisdom of chef David Chang (Eat a Peach), who has adjusted his cooking for home use. He gives ranges of temperatures and time, suggestions rather than ingredient lists, and various advice for experimenting on your own. If you're the kind of person who likes a recipe with set amounts and times, this is not your book. But if you're interested in getting better at improvising your meals based on what you have and what you like, you should pick up this colorful and informative book.

This is a very informative book on cooking, rather than a cookbook. It's written by two authors who go back and forth with the instructions and stories, the most famous of whom is David Chang. It's a great source of knowledge about cooking techniques, especially for Asian dishes. If you don't know how to cook intuitively, this is a great guide to teach you. The illustrations are a sort of pop art scheme, and I didn't love them. There aren't traditional recipes here, but there are instructions on how to cook lots of foods well.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book via Net Galley.

The truth will set you free, and so will this cookbook. The book is as much a methodology for cooking at home as a set of recipes. The premise is simple--you're cooking at home, and no matter how tricked out your home kitchen is, it is still not a restaurant kitchen. So, why should the home cook treat cooking as if it were in a restaurant kitchen?

That's an "Aha!" moment for the home cook.

Chang and Krishna will also guide the cook through "you don't have a recipe, but you know what would like to make with what you have" moments and how the home cook can develop an intuition for how to cook instinctively, tasting along the way until they get the dish they want. It's developing the gestalt of cooking.

Cooking at Home should be in the cookbook collection for the cook who's looking to expand beyond recipes, and for the newer cook who wants to broaden their cooking knowledge.

I know it's in my collection!

Highly recommended--Five stars

If you're like me and read cookbooks cover to cover this title is refreshing. I'm totally comfortable cooking, so the science and the stories and the encouragement to experiment in the kitchen in this book made it stand out. If you're an old hat or even new to cooking this book is a must in your kitchen. Make a pot of soup and enjoy!

A cookbook with no recipes? What a novel idea. This type of cookbook is exactly how many immigrant families in the US cook, from memory, from taste, from intuition. Recipes are inherently limiting and exact, not the type of cooking typically done at home, on a daily basis. The tips in this book are practical and flexible, emphasizing that deliciousness can arise from any combination of flavors and accounting for the differences in every culture and individual's palate.

I was excited to receive this book because this was how my Mom and MIL made such great food. I have always wanted to get away from recipes but been afraid of failing. This book is just what I need to get out of that way of thinking, you don’t have to necessarily go to the store to get the exact ingredients for a recipe, you can look in your own pantry and refrigerator and probably come up with a great dish. I think this would be a great cookbook for anyone that is learning to cook or wanting to improve.

Cooking at Home Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Recipes (And Love My Microwave): A Cookbook by David Chang and Priya Krishna is a nice reference type cookbook full of tips and illustrations. #CookingatHome #NetGalley

Perusing a copy of a new cookbook. I want to the recipes to inspire me and make me want to cook them. This book.. that didnt happen once.

I love cookbooks, and have a lot of them... I, like others, was really turned off by the flashy layout.. I love David Chang's writing style.. but this haphazard, casual recipe lay out... is a bummer..

I dont own a microwave.. so theres that.. (not b/c Im a cooking snob, I just live in a small apartment with no space for one).

I think for a more casual cook who is learning, and wants to broaden their horizons.. this would be a great book. For a more experienced cook.. maybe not so much.