Suddenly Cooking: The ultimate beginner-friendly anyone can cook book

Suddenly Cooking is much more than just a recipe book. It is the quintessential anyone-can-cook book. Here, you will discover all the information you need to kick start your kitchen and make all your favourite meals regardless of your level of experience.

Leaving the family home, getting married, becoming a new parent, looking after a sick spouse, finding yourself suddenly single, or simply wanting to learn how to cook with no-one to show you how; these are just a few life scenarios that will often require a crash course in cooking. And that's a daunting task for anyone to face. But it needn't be an overwhelming one.

From now on with the help of this book, you get to determine what you eat instead of life's circumstances dictating the menu.

Inside You’ll Discover:

• Fast & Stress-Free Meals: Over two-thirds of the 120 easy-to-prepare recipes can be made and on the table in under 30 minutes.
• Dietary Flexibility: With 60% of the recipes being vegetarian and vegan-friendly, plus clear indicators for vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-containing options, every dietary need is covered.
• Modern Cooking Options (Including Air Fryer!): Adaptable cooking methods throughout the book, including dedicated Air Fryer conversions and tips to get crispy, delicious results in half the time using less oil.
• Smart Leftover Makeovers: Dozens of creative leftover-makeover ideas help you make the most of every meal and reduce food waste.
• Essential Kitchen Basics: Step-by-step guides show you how to set up a cooking-friendly space, stock essential equipment, regulate heat, store food safely, and master basic knife skills.
• Pictorial Dictionary : Complete visual ingredients dictionary with descriptions for easy identification at the grocery store
• Translation Chart: Never confuse an eggplant for an aubergine again with a food name translation chart spanning Australian, British, and American English.
• Seasonal Eating: A global seasonal food chart helps you buy fruits and vegetables at their peak freshness, no matter where you live.

Putting food on the table day after day no longer needs to be a chore. With Suddenly Cooking, you can learn to cook great food without stress - that’s a promise.

Sophie Ruggles is a well-known author of cookbooks and articles in travel, food & life abroad. She is Australian-born and has been living in Barcelona since 2003. She is the founder of Casera Publications.She studied a double Bachelor's degree in linguistics and Spanish & Latin American studies at The University of New South Wales, Australia, specialising in early language acquisition and development, as well as creative writing.She is a certified teacher of English as a second language and spent two years creating original teaching materials for all learner levels, including academic writing for The Australian Centre for Languages.As well as writing cookbooks, in 2026 she began writing picture story books for children. She is especially interested in creating texts for young readers that encourage and support special learning processes such as dyslexia.​She is a mother and grandmother within a trilingual family. She speaks both English and Spanish and 'una mica' of Catalan.