Poppy Cooks: The Food You Need
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Overview
’If I had a child at Uni ... this is the book I’d be putting in their stocking this Christmas’ Nigella Lawson
’The millennials’ answer to Delia Smith’ Daily Mail
’The poster girl for TikTok cooks’ The Times
’The how-to cookbook for the modern generation. Fresh, engaging and great fun’ Rukmini Iyer, Roasting Tin series
Learn the basics. Up your cooking game. Delicious food every time.
This is a cookbook with no judgement. Together, we’ll learn how to make incredible food at home. We’ll start with the basics: 12 Core recipes (or go-to skills) that everyone needs to know, like how to make a pasta sauce, roast a chicken or make a killer salad dressing. Then we’ll use these core skills as a base for delicious and adaptable recipes that will up your cooking game – the Staple, the Brunch, the Potato Hero (of course they make an appearance) and the Fancy AF. So, once you’ve nailed that classic tomato sauce (which I promise will become the new go-to in your kitchen), you can stir it through pasta, or bake it with eggs for the perfect Shakshuka and, before you know it, you’ll be getting real fancy and making a show-stopping Chicken Parmigiana to impress your friends.
Other chapters include:
White Sauce: think Mac and Cheese and Bacon-y Garlicky Gratin.
Flat Breads: easy flat breads for Halloumi Avo Breads and Salmon Tikka wraps.
Emulsions: Chicken Caesar Salad with homemade mayo and next level Steak Béarnaise with Hollandaise and Crunchy Roast Chips.
Meringue: from Eton Mess Pancakes through to Simply the Zest Lemon Meringue Pie
Whether you’re completely new to the kitchen or looking to elevate your basics with clever tricks, my step-by-step guidance will help you nail delicious food every time. As a chef with over ten years’ experience in professional kitchens, I’ve done the years of training so you don’t have to.
It’s okay to make a few mistakes along the way, and together, we’ll help you fix them and achieve incredible results at home. I am passionate about the importance of great food at home, every day – it’s what we all deserve. This is not just the food you want. It’s the food you need.
Learn the basics. Up your cooking game. Delicious food every time.
Michelin-trained Poppy was made redundant at the beginning of the coronavirus lockdown, and turned to TikTok as a creative outlet for her cooking. She now has almost 3M followers
There is no other book on the market that offers basic cooking skills in such a fun, accessible, informal way from a chef who really knows her stuff
The unique framework for the book will provide new cooks with the skills they need for life, and 60-70 delicious, every-day, achievable recipes
Poppy is friendly, approachable, and a natural teacher. She will be brilliant for press and events
Will appeal to the same audience as buyers of Mob Kitchen and The Roasting Tin series
Not simply a social media sensation but, heartwarmingly, the actual, real thing ... Beneath the high-octane, brightly coloured pages, and the exclamatory, I’m-talking-to-my-mates informality of the recipe introductions (which, I hasten to add, are endearing rather than irritating) is a disciplined chef with a deep love for home cooking and a you-can-do-it gift for encouraging that most important quality in cooking, confidence. If I had a child at Uni who was struggling to feed her or himself, this is the book I’d be putting in their stocking this Christmas ... Makes you want to go skipping into the kitchen to cook ... She is the High Priestess of The Potato.
The poster girl for TikTok cooks
The how-to cookbook for the modern generation. Fresh, engaging and great fun
Even if you’re used to watching her, rather than reading cookbooks, you need Poppy Cooks because this woman knows her stuff. O’Toole is admirably candid and a first-class enabler.
With her no-nonsense cooking and focus on technical skills, Birmingham-born Poppy is the millennials’ answer to Delia Smith
Full of dishes I actually want to cook at home. Delicious food. Beautiful photography. Love it
One of the ascendant stars of TikTok. Her remarkable rise is testament to her natural affability on camera, kitchen skills, and nose for food trends
[Poppy O’Toole] is a TikTok megastar and the potato queen
Very much enjoying Poppy Cooks on BBC Saturday Kitchen ... I love her
- Title: Poppy Cooks: The Food You Need
- Author: Poppy O'Toole
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 240
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781526639219, 9781526639233, 1526639238, 1526639211
- Resource ID: LLS:9781526639219
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T11:54:35Z
Poppy has spent the last decade in professional kitchens – from Michelin-starred restaurants to fine-dining experiences and tasty everyday food – and since her Covid-related redundancy she has found a passion for teaching others via TikTok and Instagram. Her educational and entertaining content has amassed over 1.5M followers on social media, and gives us access to the skills she's learnt from fancy restaurants to inspire and teach people how to cook at home – beginning with the very basics – in a fun and informal way.
Find Poppy @poppycooks on TikTok and @poppy_cooks on Instagram.