--- product_id: 111816003 title: "Midnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living For" price: "R982" currency: ZAR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.co.za/products/111816003-midnight-chicken-and-other-recipes-worth-living store_origin: ZA region: South Africa --- # 4.6/5 star rating Culinary memoir & recipes Next day UK dispatch Midnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living For **Price:** R982 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🍽️ Cook, reflect, and fall in love with life again—one recipe at a time. ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Midnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living For - **How much does it cost?** R982 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.za](https://www.desertcart.co.za/products/111816003-midnight-chicken-and-other-recipes-worth-living) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Cook Your Way to Joy:** Recipes that turn everyday cooking into a soulful ritual worth savoring. - • **Next-Day UK Dispatch:** Get your copy fast and start transforming your kitchen moments tomorrow. - • **A Manifesto of Moments:** More than recipes—this book is a heartfelt guide to finding hope and happiness in food. - • **Critically Acclaimed & Loved:** 4.6-star rating from 800+ reviews proves this is a must-have for your culinary library. - • **Flexible & Forgiving Recipes:** Perfect for creative cooks who love to adapt with gluten-free and dairy-free options. ## Overview Midnight Chicken is a bestselling culinary memoir and cookbook blending evocative storytelling with approachable, adaptable recipes. Dispatched next working day from the UK, it boasts a 4.6-star rating from over 800 reviews and ranks highly in culinary biography and comfort food categories. This book invites millennial professionals to rediscover joy and mindfulness through cooking, making it a perfect gift or personal treasure. ## Description A book of recipes and reflections that reveal the life-changing happiness of cooking. " Bridget Jones' self-effacing wittiness, Julia Child's companionable forgiveness and Sylvia Plath's poetic prose." --NPR "A manual for living and a declaration of hope." --Nigella Lawson There are lots of ways to start a story, but this one begins with a chicken. There was a time when, for Ella Risbridger, the world had become overwhelming. Sounds were too loud, colors were too bright, everyone moved too fast. One night she found herself lying on her kitchen floor, wondering if she would ever get up--and it was the thought of a chicken, of roasting it, and of eating it, that got her to her feet and made her want to be alive. Midnight Chicken is a cookbook. Or, at least, you'll flick through these pages and find recipes so inviting that you will head straight for the kitchen: roast garlic and tomato soup, uplifting chili-lemon spaghetti, charred leek lasagna, squash skillet pie, spicy fish finger sandwiches and burnt-butter brownies. It's the kind of cooking you can do a little bit drunk, that is probably better if you've got a bottle of wine open and a hunk of bread to mop up the sauce. But if you settle down and read it with a cup of tea (or a glass of that wine), you'll also discover that it's an annotated list of things worth living for--a manifesto of moments worth living for. This is a cookbook to make you fall in love with the world again. Review: What a lovely book - I love cookbooks that also tell stories, and this cookbook is one of the best. Even if you don’t cook anything from this book just reading it is soothing and life-affirming. (And the recipes are wonderful.) I wholeheartedly recommend this book, for you, for gifts. Buy two in case you misplace one. You won’t regret it. Review: Such a beautiful book... and the recipes work! - Such a beautiful book to hold and feel and curl up with on a rainy day! The illustrations and the writing are deeply evocative even though the sadness of the story. The recipes work, they are fun and loose enough that they are very forgiving of creative subbing with gluten and dairy free alternatives. There is a fair amount of dairy in some but there’s lots without and even if restrictions are an issue the writing and the illustrations and just the story and joyful, nourishing approach to food make it more than worth buying for yourself and anyone who loves cooking but isn’t too precious about it. ## Features - Orders are despatched from our UK warehouse next working day. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #286,670 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #143 in Culinary Biographies & Memoirs #144 in Gastronomy Essays (Books) #546 in Comfort Food Cooking (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 818 Reviews | ## Images ![Midnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living For - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/919TgZKVZ4L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ What a lovely book *by M***S on August 12, 2025* I love cookbooks that also tell stories, and this cookbook is one of the best. Even if you don’t cook anything from this book just reading it is soothing and life-affirming. (And the recipes are wonderful.) I wholeheartedly recommend this book, for you, for gifts. Buy two in case you misplace one. You won’t regret it. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Such a beautiful book... and the recipes work! *by T***C on January 14, 2020* Such a beautiful book to hold and feel and curl up with on a rainy day! The illustrations and the writing are deeply evocative even though the sadness of the story. The recipes work, they are fun and loose enough that they are very forgiving of creative subbing with gluten and dairy free alternatives. There is a fair amount of dairy in some but there’s lots without and even if restrictions are an issue the writing and the illustrations and just the story and joyful, nourishing approach to food make it more than worth buying for yourself and anyone who loves cooking but isn’t too precious about it. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Charming book *by M***. on April 26, 2020* I’m a fan of Laurie Colwin’s writings on cooking. This is the British version of story telling with recipes mixed in. There’s a little bit of translation that has to happen to use as a cookbook (grams to cups, etc ) but nothing that google can’t assist with. Loved the watercolor illustrations. I read the book in one sitting- now to begin cooking from it ! Lots of British food I associate with Nigella but super basic; curries, chicken and fish. Some nice bread recipes too. No 1 particular type of cuisine except “comfort cuisine” I enjoyed this book very much. Reading the last part after the recipes did make me a bit sad but overall book is very comforting and I enjoyed reading it. This is not a book for people who want regimented recipes and photos to accompany each. ## Frequently Bought Together - Midnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living For - The Year of Miracles: Recipes About Love + Grief + Growing Things --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.co.za/products/111816003-midnight-chicken-and-other-recipes-worth-living](https://www.desertcart.co.za/products/111816003-midnight-chicken-and-other-recipes-worth-living) --- *Product available on Desertcart South Africa* *Store origin: ZA* *Last updated: 2026-07-07*