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Cookbook Review: Channeling Alex Snodgrass

By: Hannah Lee Leidy

Over the past few years, I’ve accumulated quite a few cookbooks—close to 100, in fact, ranging from Chinese takeout-inspired recipes and one-pot wonders to celebrity cookbooks (hello, Antoni Porowski) and handmade pasta guides. I don’t often use the word “favorite” when it comes to my cookbooks, but when Alex Snodgrass’ latest publication, The Comfortable Kitchen: 105 Laid-Back, Healthy, and Wholesome Recipes, arrived on my doorstep in early January of this year I knew right away that it was something special. 

Right out of the gates, Dallas-based Snodgrass reminds readers that she’s “just a home cook who loves sharing recipes,” but you’d never know it from the drool-inducing dishes that fill the pages of her latest book. Though this is only her second cookbook, Snodgrass is well-known in the food blogging world thanks to her wildly popular website, The Defined Dish. As someone who often falls into the belief that for a recipe to be good, it must be complicated, I was drawn to this book by the ease of the recipes in The Comfortable Kitchen, as well as its unique take on Texas food culture (think: salmon al pastor and green chile pork medallions). 

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Date Published: 01.27.22
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About The Author

Hannah Lee Leidy

Hannah Lee Leidy is a food writer and editor based in the Carolinas. She is currently the digital content editor for Our State magazine, a position she came into following her time at The Local Palate. Her contributions have appeared in Condé Nast Traveler, Bon Appétit, Epicurious, Culture, and Eater. She’s spent time working in restaurants in both front and back of house positions, doing everything from burning gateaux to expediting to shaking a Manhattan (don’t worry, this only happened once). An avid curd nerd, her favorite beat is reporting on boutique cheese makers; she’ll sniff out every creamery near and far whenever traveling. When not parenting a Bernese mountain pup named Ava, you’ll find her running or working on her lamination technique.

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