Colu Cooks: Easy Fancy Food

Colu Henry is a New York Times Food columnist and a food and lifestyle influencer. Previously, she was the director of public relations and then the director of special projects at Bon Appétit. She has also contributed to Cooking Light, Vogue.com, BonAppetit.com, Kitchn, Grub Street Diet, O, The Oprah Magazine, LENNY, Epicurious.com, Food52, Refinery29, Healthyish, Vice, the Splendid Table, the Austin American-Statesman, Portland Monthly, and many more. Henry lives in Hudson, New York.

“Easy and fancy don’t often end up in the same sentence—after all, if something is easy, can it be fancy? And if something is fancy, can it be easy?—but Colu Henry put them both in the title of her beautiful new book. A New York Times contributor and cookbook author (of the also-wonderfully-titled Back Pocket Pasta), Colu makes food I want to eat. Like, all of it: the smoked trout with capers and pickles, the green beans with harissa butter, the broccoli rabe toast with gooey provolone. These are recipes that remind me that sophisticated doesn’t need to be complicated.”