Classic Recipes for Modern People

Chef brothers Max and Eli Sussman are back with their fourth cookbook, Classic Recipes for Modern People, featuring over 75 recipes that reimagine classic dishes from their childhood and yours, with a little humor baked in along the way.

Classics Recipes for Modern People is the definitive collection of classic recipes that have been reinvented, rejiggered, reordered, and re-created by Max and Eli Sussman. They believe that recipes should be ever expanding and evolving, a philosophy they practice in both their professional and home kitchens. That a dish “no matter how classic and iconic—has the ability to morph into something new and fantastic.”

Divided into eight sections like “Classics from Our Childhood,” TV Dinner Classics,” “Future Classics,” and “Breakfast Classics” readers will find reinvented dishes inspired by Max and Eli’s childhood in Detroit, the frozen food aisle, followers on social media, and more. Everything old is new again - tastier, bolder, and better. Welcome to the new classics.

Max and Eli Sussman have had a wide range of cooking experiences that give their cookbooks—This is a Cookbook and Best Cookbook Ever—a unique attitude towards food, one that’s unpretentious and yet passionate about creativity and quality. Max currently works as the executive chef at The Cleveland in NoLiTa, NYC. In 2012 he was named one of Forbes magazine’s “30 under 30” for food and wine and was a nominee for James Beard Rising Star Chef of the year. Eli is the chef at Mile End Deli in Brooklyn. Both brothers made Zagat’s 2012 list of top “30 under 30” food professionals in New York city. The Sussmans have also been featured in numerous publications as well as a series of videos for Vice. They were recently chosen to model for Gant.