Love this cookbook. My son and I have been trying out different recipes and enjoying the delicious results. Particularly happy to see substitute ingredient suggestions; the fact that those and the recipes are grouped by season makes this cookbook a real pleasure.

I feel so fortunate to have this healing guide and cookbook with me during this current Covid19 quarantine. I am pouring through it, making shopping lists and diving into this new mindset of “Soul-Sustaining Elemental Recipes”. Pre-order now so you don’t forget and it comes out in June. I hope we are all reunited by then and returning to a life of interaction but if not, this will guide you and inspire you alone or surrounded.

A wonderful book on how to make so many delicious dishes! I would definitely recommend this book to other novice cooks or people who really enjoy eating yummy meals!

This cookbook has 110 recipes that talk about seasons the elements. Water, fire, air, ether. Help find your own style style of cooking. Health benefits of fermented cooking. Making vegetables the main recipes. Try making the Black Seeded Bread. This is a great cookbook.

Lovely recipe book! It’s easy to read and understand! It has a kind of storytelling feel to it. I’d recommend it!

I was already a fan of Cortney Burns so I thought I might like this book. I don't only like it, but I love it. So many unique recipes yet all rooted to the core of what you would anticipate seeing from Cortney. Very excited about this book!

I have a really difficult time rating this book. The recipes are varied and look delicious. There is some amazing information on roots and leaves with some really unusual recipes including teas and tinctures.

The recipes are geared more towards people who enjoy time in the kitchen- whether that is good or bad depends on the cook.

Outside of the recipes, the writing style and content was not for me, at all.

Would I like just the recipes, yeah. Could I ignore the commentary, not sure.

Nourish Me Home is a rustic, earthy, and primeval collection of recipes by Cortney Burns. Due out 26th June 2020 from Chronicle Books, it's 304 pages and will be available in hardcover and ebook formats.

The introductory chapter is followed by the recipes arranged thematically: soups and stews root vegetables and "earthy" recipes, eggs poultry meat, preserved and fermented staples for the larder (the most useful chapter for my family) along with spice blends/salts/herbs, sweets, and tonics and other concoctions. Each of the recipes includes an introductory description, ingredients listed in a bullet point sidebar (US measurements, with metric equivalents in parentheses), and step by step instructions. Many of the recipes are photographed, and they are photographed well and clearly. Serving suggestions are attractive and appropriate.

The recipe ingredients themselves include quite a number of difficult to source or foraged ingredients. This is not an instantly usable cookbook for family cooks. It's quirky and "out there" (in a good way, I think). It includes an index and ingredients list. The emphasis on seasonal eating is interesting and philosophically appealing.

This would be a great selection for folks who like to experiment in the kitchen and seek spiritual connections to food and mealtimes. The emphasis is on fresh wholesome quality ingredients and simple preparation and presentation.

Four stars, worth a look for adventurous cooks.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

This book was both inspiring and frustrating. Reading the recipes and their variations made me want to cook, but my inability to reproduce the recipes left me feeling unwilling to pick it up. I live in a smallish rural town in Spain and there were few recipes I itched to try where I wasn’t missing at least one of the ‘key’ ingredients. This book made me miss my garden. It made me miss my big city life, where I could find these intriguing ingredients.
Perhaps one day I will have access again and I will revisit this book.
If you are an adventurous and seasonal cook with access ro food markets or international groceries or a great garden, then this book is for you.

This is a stunning book. This is a book to display on your coffee table. It's that pretty. But, it's also one of those books you want to keep close by to cook from because the recipes are perfect no matter where you live. You don't need a lot of fancy equipment or hard to find ingredients to make delicious food. I will never be able to plate like they do in these photos, but I'm pretty happy with my results from this book. The food is simple, but elevated. You will learn new techniques and try new ingredients, but be totally happy with the results.

I loved this book.... a bit quirky, not at all your usual cookbook.. Some of the recipes have a nature theme and actually use bits of true nature in the recipes... like river stones. There are some unusual recipes to be found here as well as some you will be familiar with.. like Mama's pot roast. Some that were especially interesting to me were the Chilled Harvest Apple soup, Silver Dollar Corn cakes, and the Buckwheat Maple Rhubarb Sundae. The recipes are all gluten free and the author uses only natural sweeteners. For those who want to add a totally unique and absolutely beautiful cookbook to their collection ... this book is for you. The photography alone, is reason to want to own this cookbook. Thank you for the opportunity to review an advance copy of this lovely book before publication. My review is my own and is no way required by the publisher.

This is a beautiful cookbook!! Chock full of wholesome recipes. All look absolutely delicious and use quality, wholesome ingredients. You will need a specialty grocery store to cook from this book, which is the only downside which, that isn't really a downside, just a hunt for some of the ingredients! If you have such a store near you, you're going to LOVE this cookbook! If you don't, search the internet for substitutions and the book will still be useful, delicious and beneficial!!

I love the photos --- there are a lot in the book, and they are 100% gorgeous --- but this is not a cookbook for everyone. Some ingredients are not easy to find, not something that every kitchen has, so it took my mother and I quite some time to get all the ingredients we need to make some of the dishes we were interested in trying. It's also kind of pricey, I'm guessing probably because of all the pictures and the length of the book? Overall, it's not bad, I would recommend it to people who are interested in trying out non-mainstream or new ideas, but it's just not a book for everyone judging from the content and the book price.

Nourish Me Home is a beautifully encompassing cookery book, filled with ideas and recipes from a creative and visionary chef. Mindfulness and a strong relationship with your ingredients feature heavily in this book, and the author makes a point of talking through the ethos that drives her kitchen and her life.

I am always excited to see a new cookery book from Chronicle Books; they are always beautifully made, wonderfully thought out and full of gorgeous ideas and recipes, and Nourish Me Home was no exception.

I love Cortney Burns' view on life and the intentionality she applies to every aspect of her kitchen and her food. The fact that she forages a lot and explores the history of food with her dishes shows through on every page.
The photographs are stunning, and there pages and pages interesting and different flavour combinations and dishes.

I personally found the drinks and preserves to be the most interesting items in the book, and look forward to trying some of the pickles, jams and shrubs.

The sections were a little bit scattered in my opinion, and I don't think this is an easy flip-to-the-page-I-want cookbook, but I imagine that once you get to know it, you will be able to remember where everything is.
I also was a little frustrated with how many ingredients she uses that are hard to find or just expensive, but for a certain type of person that will not be a problem. It also grated on me a little bit the way that almost every recipe adds other recipes from the book as ingredients, meaning either one recipe becomes two or three, or you need to have a whole pantry already filled with items from the book in order to easily make anything.

Overall, this is a beautiful book packed with exciting and holistic ideas for a kitchen bursting with flavour and health year round. I would recommend it to anyone interested in experimenting with flavour combinations, and anyone who wants to use food to heal.

I truly enjoyed this cookbook. It is sooo different in many ways. The layout of the recipes is so refreshing and clean, no distracting colors and very easy to read. I noticed the recipes does not have a prep / cooking time and many people like this feature. Definitely for an adventurous and experienced cook like me without being complicated. The recipes have clear instructions and some specialty ingredients have a more easy to find substitution. Many recipes have a way to simplify at the end of it and others that include seasonal vegetables have a “seasons chart” with substitutions, making the recipe one to use year round. There are many classic recipes with a innovative twist like the carrot cake made with whole grain flours and orange. The light as a feather bread (yeasted bread) is to die for using whole grain and ancient grains.
Every recipe have a color picture of the finished dish, this feature is very important for me, since I decide to read and cook a recipe based on how appetizing the dish looks.

A collection of fantastic, delicious recipes. Really enjoyed it.

Many thanks to the author, the publisher, and NetGalley for my ARC. All opinions are my own.

The most unique and mouthwatering cookbook would have to go to Nourish Me Home by Cortney Burns. These recipes are so original that I have not even seen a cookbook that vaguely resembles them. These are the kinds of cookbooks I like to find, read, and try my hand at.

The idea of this book, how it was broken in elemental sections (not typical soup, salad, cake or breakfast, lunch, dinner,) plus the fermentation segment immediately sucked me in. Vegetables, herbs, and spices encompass what I generally cook with at home. My recipes, at home, get mundane and boring. While Nourish Me Home does use familiar vegetables, Burns also tosses in some variations on common vegetables, and pitches in a bunch of vegetables and spices I have never heard of.

Burns state in her intro that this book is more of a choose your own adventure story. She encourages the reader to take elements from her various recipes and toss, bake, or scramble them together to make their own delicious recipes. Along with this, on several recipes, Burns includes seasonal variations so the reader can try for an even fresher tasting dish. I personally appreciate this because I am always unsure where I can substitute something in for something else, which happens often when our small grocery stores do not carry more unique items. I can just look at the chart and see what else might work there.

I also appreciate that Burns uses whole foods and her dishes are more vegetable based, a little meat, and little to no sugar. When she does use sweetener, it is a natural one such as honey or syrup. Almost everything is made from scratch, which I also appreciate. I have wanted to learn to make more items from scratch, but I also find the flavours are so much richer when homemade.

More recipes are stuffed into this book than I initially thought. Burns includes all sorts of recipes such as healthy fruit leather, one of a kind spice blends, distinctive teas, and so much more! I already have my fruit leather going at her recommendations. One batch in the oven and one in the dehydrator to see how they both turn out.

Lastly, I could not leave this review without mentioning the stunning photos of the food by Heami Lee. The colour photos make everything look as appetizing, that it was a challenge to figure out what recipe to try first.

Cortney Burns opens her book saying that home is a state of mind, and I truly believe that. After reading this book, I feel invited into her home for a unique and salivating meal that I won’t soon forget!

I received an Advanced Reader Copy of this recipe book from Chronicle Books through Net Galley. All opinions are 100% my own. I fully intend to purchase this book for my family when it comes out! Thank you Chronicle Books, Net Galley, Cortney Burns, and Heami Lee for an incredible book of recipes and photography.

This is a fantastic cookbook with the most gorgeous photographs.  It is well worth a look and would make a nice gift for a person of your acquaintance who loves the kitchen.


The book is divided into sections called Filling the Pot, Weaving Roots, Of Feathers Scales and Fur, Larder,  Weaving Maple into Silk, and finally Imagination and Alchemy.  So you can see that it was written by a chef with a unique take on food and how to present it.


There are so many recipes in this book that is hard to choose just a few but here they are:  Chilled Early Harvest Apple Soup, Eggplant Sou with Walnut Dumplings, Cucumber Cattail Salad with Buttermilk  Bagna Cauda, Carrot-Ricotta Custard, Grilled Maple Eggs, Smoked Fish and Potato Hand Pies, Silver Dollar Corncakes and Buckwheat Maple Rhubarb Sundae.  There are also drink ingredients including Smoked Purple Barley Tincture and Fir Tip Tea.


Take some time with this book.  The author herself describes it as a Choose Your Own Adventure Guide. Learn about her, think about the recipes and our world and, even if you don't cook, enjoy imagining that you could make the food in this volume.


Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for this title in exchange for an honest review.

I received this book in exchange for an honest review which has not altered my opinion of the book.

This book has some delicious looking and sounding and tasting meals. The pictures were beautiful and made me want to cook more of them. It was easy to follow and informational at points. 4.5 out of 5 from me.

Mmmmm!! This is a feast for the soul, full of hearty, healthy dishes and easy to follow instructions.
As a very occasional meat eater, having spent 9 years a vegetarian, I often lean towards meat free meals, and found plenty of recipes in this book to suit me. There are plenty of plant based meals in the book, and those with meat are easy enough to adapt.
I love how this book uses easy to follow instructions, and plenty of tips for substituting ingredients and mixing and matching sides, As a British reader living in Italy, we can't easily get some of the ingredients mentioned and embarrassingly a few of them I'd never heard of(!) but it is easy enough to sub them out for other things, or tweak the recipes.
The key to Nourish Me Home is soul sustaining food, inspired by the elements. For me this means eating as naturally as possible, without processed junk food our mental health is much stronger and our mood improves immensely, as well as the obvious physical benefit as our body is nourished.

As part of my 2020 resolution to live more naturally - meaning more fresh cooking from scratch and home grown herbs, as well as eating what is in season to do good for myself and the planet, this little guide will be by my side!

Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers for providing an advance copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.