Cook Like a King

“Ever since I first tasted Melissa’s cooking on Top Chef, I’ve been waiting for this book. Her food is beautiful and comforting, elegant, and very doable. Part of her genius is blending flavors and cultures with intention, so each dish seems both familiar and like nothing you’ve ever tasted. Buy this book. Use it often. I know I will.”—Padma Lakshmi, New York Times bestselling author and award-winning executive producer and TV host“To honor who we are as chefs is hard enough. To do so unapologetically, deliciously, and with style is even more difficult. To do all that and inspire others to cook, to create food so irresistible that I am insistent that you buy this book that my friend made for you, well, that is pure magic. And magic is indeed what’s inside these covers. Melissa King is a phenomenal talent, a superb cook in every sense of the word, and her recipes—several of which I have had the pleasure of eating—are incomparably craveable. You will be cooking out of this book for years and years. And wowing whoever is at your table.”—Andrew Zimmern “Chef Melissa is one of the most talented chefs in the country. I have had the privilege to have her food many times, and now we all can cook her food at home. I can’t wait to eat through this book with my family.”—Marcus Samuelsson, award-winning chef, author, and restaurateur

Melissa King is best known as the winner of Bravo’s Top Chef All-Stars: Los Angeles Season 17 and the winner of All-Star’s Fan Favorite. King holds more challenge wins than any other competitor in the show’s history. She is the host of Tasting Wild, the National Geographic docuseries and serves as a guest judge on Top Chef, Food Network’s The Julia Child Challenge, Pamela Anderson’s Cooking with Love, and America’s Test Kitchen: The Next Generation. Along with being a chef-entrepreneur, event curator, television personality, philanthropist, and model, she is an activist who speaks publicly on issues of women’s empowerment, LGBTQ+ rights, sustainability, food education, and diversity in entrepreneurship. Out Magazine named her one of the 100 LGBTQ+ individuals making a groundbreaking impact on the world.

JJ Goode helps people write books, and mostly cookbooks, which are the best books. He has coauthored several New York Times bestsellers and has been nominated for several James Beard awards.