Husband-and-wife food bloggers and podcasters Sonja and Alex Overhiser have a new cookbook that uses a simple step to keep the kitchen a less heated place for two chefs: clear, alternating roles.
A Couple Cooks: 100 Recipes to Cook Together lays out ingredients and directions for a wide array of dishes, like any other cookbook, but also divides the cooking tasks – one home chef is designated a square, the other a triangle – so neither cook becomes overwhelmed or resentful.
“Everything is more fun together, we think. And so we found that about cooking,” Sonja Overhiser says from the couple’s home in Indianapolis, in the US state of Indiana. “You’ll stay doing it if you’re doing it with someone else.”
“We’re hoping to break down that factor where people are intimidated by being in the kitchen, where all they want to do is wash dishes because they’re afraid they’re going to burn something,” Alex says.
