Let's Eat: 101 Heartwarming Recipes for Family & Home Cooking | Easy Meal Ideas for Holidays, Gatherings & Everyday Comfort

This exuberant first cookbook is the work of Instagram star Dan @grossypelosi Pelosi, who conveys an infectious enthusiasm for food that is frequently Italian-inspired and often smartly imaginative.

Pelosi is generous with culinary advice: the book abounds in guides on everything from cooking for a crowd and storing leftovers to making marinara sauce and making sandwiches, all of them just opinionated enough to let you feel he knows what he’s talking about.

He includes a range of crowd-pleasing Italian-American stalwarts like eggplant parmesan and chicken marsala, seafood-stuffed shells and fried calamari. But we’re more intrigued by the creativity shown in dishes such as:

• Sheet pan breakfast sandwich
• Whole-roasted eggplant with Calabrian chili crisp
• Bean, kale, and linguica skillet
• Rainbow cookie loaf cake

Throughout the book Pelosi shares stories of family and friends, making it clear that food is central to many enduring relationships, something he clearly wishes for his readers as well.

Hardcover. Color photographs throughout.