"Perfect for experienced cooks, who will relish Peters’s imaginative takes on classic dishes as well as her inspired original culinary creations, and those new to the kitchen, who will feel empowered by the clear, easy-to-follow format and welcoming tone of the recipes." —Library Journal, starred review
“Let’s do lunch! Whether you’re whipping up something at home or packing a lunch for the office, these 'uplifting' recipes in Meike Peters’s cookbook NOON are a hit.” —Hello! magazine
“A brilliant solution for busy home cooks looking to jazz up their midday meals.” - Publisher's Weekly Starred Review
“Meike Peters’s Noon is a delicious contemplation of how food can bring pleasure and comfort any time of the day. Her vibrant vegetable- and fruit-packed recipes are colorful, enticing, crave-worthy, and completely doable at lunchtime. Peters’s book serves as a reminder that we should all aim to bring balance to our busy days and savor the small moments around this oft-forgotten meal.”
—Hetty Lui McKinnon, food writer and cookbook author
“Meike Peters’s new book is a soul-satisfying reminder that lunch is a state of mind. In our ever-busier lives, taking a break for a nourishing meal is the ultimate form of midday self-care. Having this repertoire of gorgeous, unfussy recipes—plus a smart set of tips, tricks, and strategies—only makes this proposition more delicious.”
—Adeena Sussman, author of Sababa
“As someone who eschews breakfast and counts down the hours to lunch, Noon is right up my proverbial alley. Peters’s recipes showcase the power of food to excite, to create a mood, or to transform a situation as much as to nourish the body. The joy of a midday feast is something within our reach with this beautiful book.”
—Helen Goh, coauthor of Sweet
“Noon has so many colorful, easy-to-make, and mouth-watering plates of food. I love the idea of midday feasting.”
—Sami Tamimi, chef and award-winning author
“I have a feeling that I’ve been waiting for this exact book. Meike Peters manages to revive a time and a meal of the day that, due to our obsession with efficiency, we have almost forgotten about. And she does it in such a beautiful, practical, and original way that you want to drop everything and start cooking right away. I heartily recommend this book!"
—Daniel Schreiber, author of Susan Sontag
"A gorgeous meditative celebration on satisfying those midday cravings - it’s sublime.”
—Gurdeep Loyal, columnist Olive Magazine
★ 08/01/2023
Move over, breakfast: lunch is about to become the most important meal of the day. At least if James Beard Award—winning author, photographer, and food blogger Peters (365: A Year of Everyday Cooking and Baking) has anything to say about it. With her latest gorgeously photographed cookbook, Berlin-based Peters serves up 115 simple but thoughtfully conceived recipes for soups, sandwiches, salads, pasta dishes, and more that focus on delivering a maximum of bold flavors with a minimum of ingredients and some smart use of pantry staples. While many of the recipes, such as cucumber and fennel salad with melon and Rosti with pistachio-feta dip, are vegetable-forward in nature, carnivores and pescatarians will also find a sampling of yummy treats, like Mediterranean meatloaf with vegetables and herbs and beet cream cheese and smoked fish on a bun. VERDICT Perfect for experienced cooks, who will relish Peters's imaginative takes on classic dishes as well as her inspired original culinary creations, and those new to the kitchen, who will feel empowered by the clear, easy-to-follow format and welcoming tone of the recipes.—John Charles