Meike Peters

Jun 11, 2024 | tablemagazine.com | Emma Riva |Meike Peters

Adrianna “Ada” Jackowska has the talent to make me smile even on my grumpiest days—and so does her Polish cold beet soup. She is the first person who convinced me that cold soup can be great. The soup she grew up with is called chłodnik. It’s vibrantly pink, and so crisp, it tastes like biting into a vegetable garden—I find it more refreshing than a salad.

Jun 11, 2024 | tablemagazine.com | Emma Riva |Meike Peters

This soup is ideal for gray and gloomy days—it’s the essence of relaxed cold weather cooking. Made with colorful vegetables, tiny pasta, and poached eggs, it’s comforting and will brighten your spirits in less than half an hour. The liquid egg yolk melts into the clear broth, making the soup almost creamy, while the pasta soaks up all the flavors, making it a little richer, more substantial.

Feb 7, 2024 | theguardian.com | Meike Peters

We might crave different dishes, but what we all have in common at noon is that we’re looking for a meal that is nourishing, comforting and healthy, a meal that gives us energy for the rest of the day and that is good for body, mind and soul. Instead of regularly searching for this outside our kitchens and eating out, we can keep it in our own hands and increase the likelihood that we’ll find what we’re actually looking for.

Sep 13, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Lidia Bastianich |Tanya Bastianich Manuali |Meike Peters

Lidia’s from Our Family Table to Yours: More than 100 Recipes Made with Love for All OccasionsTo Italian cooking legend Bastianich and her daughter Manuali (who most recently collaborated on Lidia’s A Pot, a Pan, and a Bowl), food is “an expression of love and caring”—especially cooking for and eating with family. In what may be her most personal work to date, Bastianich shares recipes from a lifetime of gatherings that fans will treasure.

May 17, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Meike Peters |Chetna Makan |Ravinder Bhogal

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