GASTRONOMISCHE AKADEMIE DEUTSCHLANDS GAD Silver Medal 2024, Frankfurt Book Fair
“Move over, breakfast: lunch is about to become the most important meal of the day.”
―Library Journal (starred review)
“The result is a brilliant solution for busy home cooks looking to jazz up their midday meals.”
―Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Simplicity is doable when it’s celebrated as confidently as Peters does. A favorite book.”
―Süddeutsche Zeitung Best Cookbooks
ABOUT NOON
“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, co-author of Sweet
“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
“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
“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.”
―Library Journal (starred review)
“The result is a brilliant solution for busy home cooks looking to jazz up their midday meals.”
―Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Brilliant, quick recipes for lunch.”
―ELLE
“Unrivaled.”
“NOON needs to be in everyone’s bookshelf.”
―Gastronomische Akademie Deutschlands GAD Award
“ A gorgeous meditative celebration on satisfying those midday cravings - it’s sublime.”
―Gurdeep Loyal, columnist Olive Magazine
“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
“It has been said that breakfast is the most important meal of the day but that was before Meike Peters tackled lunch.”
―Jenny Hartin, Eat Your Books
“Bruce was so excited to interview Meike Peters for our podcast this week. He loved her new book more than I’ve seen him love a book in a while.”
―Mark Scarbrough, Cooking with Bruce & Mark podcast
“In her new cookbook, Meike Peters honors the good old lunch—with convincing creative combinations and recipes that are easy to understand.”
―Peter Badenhop, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
“Brilliantly good & brilliantly simple.”
―Anja Wasserbaech, Stuttgarter Zeitung
“Simplicity is doable when it’s celebrated as confidently as Peters does. A favorite book.”
―Marten Rolff, Süddeutsche Zeitung The Best Cookbooks of 2023
“The author shows in her 115 recipes how we can easily enjoy nourishing and healthy meals at noon.”
―Fiona Bornhöft, AD Architectural Digest The Best Cookbooks of 2023
“My biggest meal of the day is lunch, so making it something special is key and this book will get you there. Salads, soups, stews, sandwiches, sweet and savory tarts, plus more. They all look brilliant!”
―Zoë François, The Best Cookbooks of 2023
“Though the focus is afternoon dining, the recipes would be stars no matter what the meal.”
―Julia Platt Leonard, Table Magazine
Lunchtime is just as exciting as dinner in this delightful new cookbook that combines Meike Peters's inventive and craveable recipes with gorgeous photography. These 115 recipes are guaranteed to perk up your day (or your dinner).
This bold new cookbook by James Beard Award–winning author and photographer Meike Peters invites us to indulge in simple, satisfying, and scrumptious meals to feed our midday cravings. With a few tricks and clever flavor combinations to keep your mind, body, and soul happy, NOON makes it easy to treat yourself throughout the day.
These 115 quick and creative recipes span vibrant salads and sandwiches, cozy pastas, and savory tarts, as well as warming soups, speedy schnitzels, and Mediterranean seafood treats. Whether you’re in the mood for the mouthwatering Autumn Salad with Jerusalem Artichokes, Walnuts, and Apples, a texturally intoxicating Carrot and Pear Salad with Tahini and Sesame Seeds, or the surprising zip of Sauerkraut and Hummus on Sourdough Bread, this book has your taste buds covered.
Attainable yet crave-worthy, the recipes in NOON can equally suit the start, middle, or end of your day. Our lives have changed, and these recipes flexibly fit any reality, from working from home or lunch at the office to leisurely weekend lunches with friends. NOON is about a pause, no matter when you need it. With year-round recipes and stunning photography, this book will keep you well fed and happy at any time of day.
One of the New York Times Best Cookbooks
"If you want to change how you cook—to learn new tricks—I heartily recommend 365. You may find some of her combinations challenging, but your everyday cooking will never be the same. Hey, life’s short; it’s time to try dates in your meatloaf!"
―Christopher Kimball, Milk Street
365: A YEAR OF EVERYDAY COOKING & BAKING
Every home cook faces the same conundrum—what should I make today? Find a delicious answer to that question every day of the year with Meike Peters, author of the James Beard Award-winning book Eat in My Kitchen and the popular blog of the same name.
These 365 new recipes are designed to complement the rhythm of your week, from quick, creative weeknight pasta dinners and colorful salads to fragrant, long-simmering weekend stews and cozy cakes. Try the Winter Caprese with Blood Orange, Beet, and Mozzarella; Riesling Mussels with Grapes and Tarragon; Raclette and Onion Spaetzle; and Tahini-Date Cake.
Featuring the author's signature style of cooking, rooted in German and Mediterranean flavors and making the best of each season's lush produce, this new home-cooking bible will inspire you in the kitchen the whole year and beyond.
EAT IN MY KITCHEN: TO COOK, TO BAKE, TO EAT, AND TO TREAT
Meike Peters’s site, Eat in My Kitchen, captures the way people like to eat now: fresh, seasonal food with a variety of influences. It combines a northern European practical attitude, from the author’s German roots, with a rustic Mediterranean-inspired palate, from her summers in Malta.
This highly anticipated cookbook is comprised of 100 recipes that celebrate the seasons and are awash with color. Indulge in the Radicchio, Peach, and Roasted Shallot Salad with Blue Cheese; Parsnip and Sweet Potato Soup with Caramelized Plums; Pumpkin Gnocchi; mouthwatering sandwiches like the Pea Pesto and Bacon with Marjoram; and seafood and meat dishes that introduce tasty and unexpected elements. Meike Peters’s famous baked treats include everything from pizza to bread pudding, and perfect cookies to sumptuous tarts.
Followers of Meike Peters will be thrilled to have her exquisitely photographed recipes in print in one place, while those who aren’t yet devotees will be won over by her unpretentious tone and contagious enthusiasm for simple, beautiful, and tasty food.
REVIEWS
365: A YEAR OF EVERYDAY COOKING & BAKING
"To live a year in Meike Peters’ life! In 365, Ms. Peters, who won a James Beard award for her 2016 book, Eat in My Kitchen, offers a meal for every night from January to December. The recipes are largely European in focus (Ms. Peters lives in Berlin and Malta), skew seasonal and, rare for a cookbook, tend to serve two. There’s some repetition, but isn’t that real life, where sometimes you’re eating alone, or making variations on a favorite dish? Weekends are earmarked for more time-consuming recipes: cakes and tarts, cookies and jam. Dinner, they’re not. But sustenance for the week ahead? Definitely."
―The New York Times 'The 13 Best Cookbooks of Fall 2019’
"If you want to change how you cook—to learn new tricks—I heartily recommend “365.” You may find some of her combinations challenging, but your everyday cooking will never be the same. Hey, life’s short; it’s time to try dates in your meatloaf!"
―Christopher Kimball / Milk Street
"Peters' recipes are flavorsome, wholesome and deceptively simple."
―Town&Country Magazine '6 of The Best Seasonal Cookbooks 2019’
''Inspiration to get even the most jaded cook back in the kitchen.''
―Independent ’11 Best Cookbooks 2019’
"With a recipe for each day of the year, you’ll never run out of inspiration here. Running through the entire calendar year, beginning in January, 365 concentrates on seasonal availability… Her recipes have a unique European and Maltese spin, filled with vibrant color and flavor."
―Inquirer '5 of The Best Cookbooks 2019‘
"A fantastic collection of delicious and easy-to-make recipes."
―Country&Town House Magazine
"365 is filled with a year’s worth of recipes and stunning photography. Meike’s goal is to take the pressure off cooks and bakers with seasonal recipes that are approachable and provide variety.“
―Eat Your Books
"Every home cook faces the dilemma of trying to work out what to cook tonight. Thankfully, Meike Peters has made life a little more simple with her cookbook of 365 recipes for every day of the year. It's a genius idea, and not only that, but the book is packed with mouthwatering ideas that we can't wait to cook.“
―House&Garden Magazine
"The book offers tons of ideas and suggestions for quick, creative weeknight dinners; for colorful salads; for long-simmering weekend stews; and for delicious desserts.“
―Epicurious
"After cooking from Peters’ 365 I’m reminded that everything about cooking—from being in the kitchen, choosing ingredients, consulting recipes, singing along to the radio — is all about enjoying… Peters’ reminds us that each and every day of the year is about celebrating mealtime.“
―ShipshapeEatworthy
"Her first book, Eat in My Kitchen, was a sensation. This volume is better and bigger.“
―Cooking by the Book
"Don’t be surprised if this roast butternut squash with feta and pistachios (recipe no. 302 in 365) steals everyone’s attention from everything else on the table. It’s hard not to be completely smitten with the sophisticated edge that a sprinkling of pistachios along with some baked feta and a drizzle of cumin oil lends these comfortingly familiar roast squash wedges.“
―Leite’s Culinaria
"If this is the year of “cook more homemade meals,” then “365: A Year of Everyday Cooking & Baking” from James Beard Award winning author Meike Peters may be just the ticket.This cookbook helps you resolve to cook every day in 2020 and provides the approachable recipes that every home cook needs ... I’m considering “365” as the antidote to a no-contest resolution like “cook more homemade meals.”
―Herald
The New York Times 'The 13 Best Cookbooks of Fall 2019' (print and online)
The Independent '11 Best Cookbooks of 2019'
Town&Country 'Six of the Best Seasonal Cookbooks'
The Guardian (print and online)
Oprah Magazine
Milk Street / Christopher Kimball's Book Reviews
The Washington Post (2021)
The Washington Post (2023)
WELT(print and online)
ZEIT Magazin (print and online)
ZEIT Magazin (print)
Living at Home (print)
Brigitte (print)
BookAuthority Best German Cooking Books of All Time
BookAuthority Best Pasta Cooking Books of All Time
Gourmand Awards Best Cookbooks 2020
The Philadelphia Inquirer 'The 5 Best Cookbooks of Fall 2019'
Sunday Circle
Freundin
Emotion Slow
Petra
Cookery by the Book with Suzy Chase
RBB (radio)
What's Cookin' Today Show CRN (radio)
FoodGal by Carolyn Jung
EAT IN MY KITCHEN
“Ms. Peters, a blogger who lives in Berlin, draws on a mix of German and Mediterranean influences. That includes Malta, where she has family, inspiring the addition of orange peel in a bittersweet chocolate Bundt cake and blood oranges in a steaming bowl of mussels. Her sandwiches … including one made with roasted cherry tomatoes and garlic: easy for lunch, suitable for hors d’oeuvres on little toast rounds, and alluring when assembled on long ciabatta breads for a party.”
―The New York Times ‘Best Cookbooks 2016’
“Eat In My Kitchen is an incredibly beautiful book. I’ve made several recipes from Meike’s book – the Pasta with Orange Butter, the Potato and Sauerkraut Latkes and the Bavarian Pork Roast – all incredibly delicious. The photographs are gorgeous in this title, taken by the author herself, and the recipes truly are crave-worthy. This will be a well-used tool in my kitchen for years and I’m hoping for much more from this talented writer.”
―Eat Your Books ‘The Forty Best Cookbooks of 2016’
“Food blogger Meike Peters’s premiere cookbook celebrates the seasons with 100 tasty recipes that celebrate fresh, seasonal dishes. It’s worth the purchase even if just for her exquisite food photography …”
―InStyle USA ‘Best Cookbooks 2016’
“Eat in My Kitchen,” by Berlin blogger Meike Peters, provides home entertaining tips as well as fastidiously written recipes that make everything from Maltese pastry to pork shoulder roasted in Bavarian beer seem breezily attainable. While Eat In My Kitchen is not purely vegetarian, Peters provides a wealth of everyday plant-centric menus in which meat is an accent, not the centerpiece.”
―USA Today ‘The 16 Best Food and Beverage Books of 2016’
“Sometimes a single recipe can encapsulate an entire cookbook. Eat in My Kitchen is filled with bold ideas reflecting Meike’s unbound imagination. The recipes here are most definitely NOT 1-2-3 simple. You can easily accomplish any of them, but you are going to need some time. The dishes are delightful because of their complexity: multiple ingredients unexpectedly combined into layers you’ve never, never seen before;”
―The Huffington Post
“Peters excels at making simple recipes special, often with a dash of spice or a drizzle of dressing. A gorgeous cookbook to carry readers through all four seasons.”
―Library Journal
“For all its historical influence, Berlin hasn’t borne much reputation as a gourmet capital. With her internationally admired food blog and now book of the same name, Peters may well change that. Although Peters’ cooking style has its foundation in German cuisine, she has spent much of her life in Mediterranean climes, so her cooking owes much to the influence of islands such as Malta and its neighbor, Gozo. Peters’ cooking liberally uses fresh ingredients, particularly herbs, which play a prominent role even in her cheese-stuffed meatloaf. She proudly promotes decidedly German dishes such as schnitzel, both of veal and pork. Oranges perfume many of her dishes, whether in a pork-roast crust, in salads, or in an uncommon spaghetti sauce with wild mushrooms. She pays homage to the lowly sandwich, which she elaborates with vegetarian options as well as meat-based versions. Color photographs help guide anyone wanting to reproduce Peters’ perceptive cooking.”
―Booklist
“Blogger Meike Peters is a fan of all things in moderation, and her debut book strikes a balance between healthy and indulgent. Try Mediterranean-inspired spiced salmon or feta, artichoke and zucchini casserole―then finish with chocolate-olive oil cake.”
―Self Magazine
“The winner of the 2017 James Beard Award for food writing, Eat in My Kitchen grew out of Meike Peters’ recipe blog of the same name. Peters, who is German, has a Maltese boyfriend, which helps to explain the strong pan-European flavour present in both the blog and the book. Sauteed Belgian endive wrapped in prosciutto di Parma is one such recipe … The New York Times recommends the delicious cod in parchment with wild leeks and red onions.”
―The Week UK ‘The Best Cookbooks of 2017’
“Eat in my kitchen is a wonderful selection of recipes, bursting with colour, beauty and flavour. Each page offers a new temptation”.
―Sami Tamimi, co-author of Ottolenghi: The Cookbook and Jerusalem
“I was totally blown away by the recipes and Meike’s photography – a true labor of love. Eat in My Kitchen is glorious – it engaged me from the first line “My food is in my hands” and kept me interested until the last chapter.”
―Jenny Hartin, Sunday Supper
“Great food like great art speaks the truth. Meike’s recipes and photos are pared down, honest and revealing – I love what she does! She goes right for the sensory jugular leaving you wanting and needing more. Void of superfluous detail, Meike’s all about delicious food – brava!”
―Cynthia Barcomi, cookbook author and TV host
“Meike’s food combines the vibrant colors and flavors of her German home as well as her Maltese home-away-from-home. Her Pretzel Buns from the book are perfect examples. They are based on a German recipe, but use Maltese salt.”
―Design Sponge
“This collection of 100 dishes is a must-read for anyone looking for a cooking lesson with inimitable charm.”
―Food Republic
“Meike Peters’ new cookbook Eat in My Kitchen has our food-loving hearts beating fast and crushing hard.”
―Honest Cooking
“What I love most about this [cinnamon apple crumb] cake is that while some fruit cakes can be on the dry side, this cake is anything but. It’s moist, buttery, and almost even doughy in the center if you cook it for just under an hour…which I did…and it was perfection.”
―HalfBakedHarvest
“Blueberry, Buckwheat, and Hazelnut Muffins—Ground hazelnuts and nutty buckwheat replace wheat flour to turn this muffin recipe into a gluten-free treat. The warmth of cinnamon merged with sweet juicy berries creates the most tempting aroma from the oven . . . This sweet Tyrolean classic features buckwheat and hazelnut sponge cake sandwiched with a red jam filling. It’s so pleasing to enjoy while sitting next to a warm fire, watching snowflakes fall in front of the window.”
―ExtraCrispy.com
“The recipes feature simple, beautiful, tasty dishes that are sure to become favorites for any home cook.”
―National Examiner
“For all its historical influence, Berlin hasn’t borne much reputation as a gourmet capital. With her internationally admired food blog and now book of the same name, Peters may well change that. Although Peters’ cooking style has its foundation in German cuisine, she has spent much of her life in Mediterranean climes, so her cooking owes much to the influence of islands such as Malta and its neighbor, Gozo. Peters’ cooking liberally uses fresh ingredients, particularly herbs, which play a prominent role even in her cheese-stuffed meatloaf. She proudly promotes decidedly German dishes such as schnitzel, both of veal and pork. Oranges perfume many of her dishes, whether in a pork-roast crust, in salads, or in an uncommon spaghetti sauce with wild mushrooms. She pays homage to the lowly sandwich, which she elaborates with vegetarian options as well as meat-based versions. Color photographs help guide anyone wanting to reproduce Peters’ perceptive cooking.”
―Booklist
“A mouth-watering experience to browse through, and a culinary delight to plan menus with, Eat in My Kitchen is gladly recommended and certain to be an enduringly popular addition to personal, family, professional, and community library cookbook collections.”
―Library Bookwatch
The New York Times’ list of ‘Best Cookbooks of Fall 2016’
The New York Times – Cookbook Review – Florence Fabricant
The New York Times Cooking – Sautéed Endive with Balsamic Butter
InStyle’s list of ’17 Cookbooks You Need to Get Your Hands on This Fall’
USA Today’s list of ‘The 19 Best Food and Beverage Books of 2016’
Epicurious’ ‘The 25 Most Exciting New Cookbooks for Fall 2016’
The Kitchn ‘#1 Best New Cookbooks 2016’
Eat Your Books ‘The Forty Best Cookbooks of 2016’
The Week UK ‘The Best Cookbooks of 2017’
The Huffington Post – Cookbook review 07/2017
James Beard Foundation – Chef / Author
Food52 ‘2017 Piglet Community Picks’
Food52 ‘2017 Piglet Community Picks’
Condé Nast Traveler 10/2017
ELLE Decoration 12/2016
It’s Your Health with Lisa Davis
Hetty McKinnon / Arthur’s Street Kitchen
Times of Malta / Escape Magazine
The Malta Independent
