Nothing Matters but Delicious: A Radically Honest Cookbook
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After years spent cooking in some of the country’s most celebrated kitchens, including Alinea, Per Se, and Blue Hill at Stone Barns, chef Greg Baxtrom arrived at a surprisingly simple conclusion: most of the things cooks worry about don’t matter nearly as much as whether the food tastes good.
In this decidedly unprecious cookbook, the former chef-owner of Olmsted shares the kinds of dishes he actually cooks at home, emphasizing flavor, flexibility, and common sense over rigid technique. Recipes include roasted beet salad with pickled raspberries, heirloom tomato schnitzel, garlicky braised chicken with Tostitos salsa, super-crunch pork nuggets with blood orange sweet-and-sour sauce, and the aptly named “sad cookie for one.”
Throughout, Baxtrom offers practical advice on recovering from mistakes, improvising ingredients, and understanding flavor rather than simply following instructions. Part cookbook and part manifesto against culinary perfectionism, Nothing Matters…but Delicious encourages home cooks to loosen up, trust their instincts, and focus on what matters most: making food they actually want to eat.
Hardcover. Color photographs throughout.
Published on May 26, 2026
