Cooking At Home: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Recipes (And Love My Microwave) by David Chang

James Beard Award Nominee Real-life home cooking from a Michelin-star chef who’s done with perfection... A James Beard Award nominee, Cooking at Home is David Chang’s refreshingly honest take on how professional chefs don’t actually cook at home—and how he had to re-learn everything when he started cooking for his family. Gone are the restaurant tricks, long ingredient lists, and piles of dirty dishes. Instead, this book offers deeply flavorful, often surprising, and always fast meals that prioritize flexibility over fuss. Recipes are more like guided improvisations—with templates for turning pantry basics into weeknight winners. Written in a conversational, no-recipes-needed style (with a lot of swearing and a little microwave magic), this book gives you permission to break rules. Chang explains how he adapts staples like ginger-scallion noodles, coconut curry chicken, or gochujang potatoes based on what’s on hand and what he’s in the mood for. Perfect for parents, kitchen minimalists