For anyone resolving to cook more in the New Year, Prue Leith has a message: take a breath, roll up your sleeves and don’t let perfectionism keep you from the stove. In her latest cookbook, “Life’s Too Short to Stuff a Mushroom: Really good food without the fuss,” out now from Carnival, the legendary chef and “Great British Bake Off” judge argues that good food is within reach for every cook — even those with little patience, know-how or time.
“It’s taken me a long life to know for sure that life is for living, and that hard graft has to be worth it,” Leith writes in the introduction to the book. “So, if you are whacked, short of time or just don’t like cooking, cheating is fine. I cheat all the time, and I LOVE cooking.”
