Quarantine Session #94: Leanne Brown + Hawa Hassan

Summary

Leanne Brown’s wildly popular and NYT bestselling cookbook Good and Cheap: Eat Well on $4/Day showed us that kitchen skill and resourcefulness—not budget—are the keys to great food. Brown returned (virtually) to Greenlight for the launch of her new cookbook, Good Enough: A Cookbook: Embracing the Joys of Imperfection and Practicing Self-Care in the Kitchen. Good Enough champions a different yet complementary approach to food and cooking through the lens of self-care, mental health, and the embrace of imperfection—because who hasn’t eaten a handful of nuts over the sink and cold pizza for breakfast? In conversation with cookbook author, kitchen ingenue, and her real-life friend Hawa Hassan (In Bibi’s Kitchen), Brown held forth on community, the sea change in home cooking over the pandemic, and focusing less on the outcome than the experience of cooking. (Recorded January 13, 2022)