The Wishbone Kitchen Cookbook: Seasonal Recipes for Everyday Luxury and Elevated Entertaining Hardcover – May 6, 2025

First, this book is extremely lovely from the beautiful retro cover lining, to the photography to the final stars, the recipes. I immediately decided to put it to the test by planning my weekend menus from the book. Friday it’s the “Tomato Baked Cod” (page 180) served over a bed of Balsamic rice, alongside “The Green Salad” (page 65) with some simple dessert. Saturday, the evening festivities start with “Dirty Martinis with Blue Cheese Stuffed Olives (page 223), my personal favorite and “Caesar Crudités” (page 34S). Followed with steaks from the grill, served with “Grilled summer vegetables” (page 111); making substitutions with the vegetables per their anvai and fresh baked crusty rolls. It’s my dear friend Kathryn’s birthday and I’m going to try the “Olive Oil Cake with Peaches and Cream” (page 215); if I can’t find great peaches, I’ll substitute black raspberries. There will be strong coffee and some decaf for the faint of heart! With an assortment of liquors. The patio and table will be covered with an abundance of sun flowers, hydrangeas and gardenias plus candles everywhere..I am so looking forward to celebrate with these dear friends and know these new recipes will be a welcome addition to my collection.Upon finishing her cookbook, Ms. Hayden has compiled curated menus for several holidays and seasons and I look forward to using them as they take the stress out of menu planning

Absolutely love this cookbook so far—every recipe I’ve tried has been a hit! You can tell that each dish was tested and developed with real care and intention. What I especially appreciate is how easy it is to adapt the recipes to fit your preferences or dietary needs.As a pescatarian, I’ve swapped tempeh in for chicken in a few recipes (like the blueberry salad—to die for!), and the flavors still shine through beautifully. I even used the leftover dressing from that salad to make a blueberry-glazed salmon the next night, and it was just as incredible. I also added rice to the pan-fried fish and citrus salad, and it made for a perfect meal.The flexibility and inspiration in this book make me excited to keep cooking. Every recipe feels like a winner, and I can’t wait to post more photos as I go. So proud of Meredith and happy to support her journey—this cookbook is a true gem!

I am a collector of cookbooks, I have 280 currently. I found this cookbook to be fresh and I am going to enjoy all the seafood recipes. I thought all the recipes look delicious and I’m excited to start cooking from it. It’s delightful and delicious.

I'm late to the Wishbone Kitchen but ordered the cookbook based on an IG post. It's been a long time since I've filled up pages of notes with new recipes I want to try. This book leans heavily on seafood - lobster, crab, scallop - with a few chicken ideas. The salad and salad dressings are beautiful and complex and I'm systematically going through them. Be prepared to buy so many more shallots at the market. These are recipes that you've maybe seen before but with just a little extra finesse, subtle details that make the dishes taste and look better.

Meredith, I simply do not have enough words to describe how much I love your cook book. Every single recipe has been a 10/10. We probably make the sun gold pasta recipe at least once a week. The boyfriend chicken is by far my favorite whole chicken recipe that I've ever made. I can't wait to spend the summer working my way through the rest of this book!

Love this cookbook and Meredith. I would have bought it just for the gorgeous photography but the recipes are wonderful too. I can't wait to try more this Summer.

The media could not be loaded. I love this cookbook. At first glance I wasn’t sure if I would use many of the recipes as it’s a lot of seafood and some of the recipes seem a little tedious for someone who cooks for mostly young kids. But I read thru everything and have used it as a guide for the past few weeks and have been pleasantly surprised. The recipes are fresh and healthy but incorporate comfort food. It has bare bones basics as well as explanations of more difficult recipes.The art and aesthetics are beautiful. The photographs are beautiful.I do enjoy reading the book but of course as a TikTok follower, I was hoping there would be more backstories and mentions of TikTok. I don’t think it mentions TikTok once but that’s ok, that’s why it’s a professional cookbook I guess.Top recipes I’ve made: PLT Salad, Sungold Tomato Pasta, Crab Fried Rice, Sesame Chili Crunch, Shake ‘N Bake Chicken with hot honey tomatoes

Super bummed to leave this review because I love following wishbone kitchen and the recipes she always shares on her socials seem super delicious. I knew I wanted to buy her cookbook once it was released.While it is a beautiful book , well written with great imagery - I’m not super excited about the recipes she shares in this book. They are very coastal, lots of lobster, crab, etc. Which is fine for every once in a while but when I want to cook American food - I already reach for this book so much less than I reach for my Ina books or Alison Roman books. I was hoping to have that same love for this books as I do for those and this just wasn’t the case. Also - the desserts are a total snooze. Most of it is kind of snoozey. Really nothing too exciting in this book. Big Bummer.