Author Event: Kat Ashmore, “Big Bites: Wholesome, Comforting Recipes That Are Big on Flavor, Nourishment, and Fun”

Home cooks looking for healthy comfort food, this one is for you! Darien Library and Wilton Library, along with Barrett Bookstore, team up to welcome social media sensation, Kat Ashmore, creator of Kat Can Cook, to talk about her new book, Big Bites: Wholesome, Comforting Recipes That Are Big on Flavor, Nourishment, and Fun.

With more than 2.3 million followers on social media, creator of Kat Can Cook, Ashmore introduces simple, nourishing, recipes that are big on flavor and reimagine the concept of “healthy food.” Ashmore’s mission is to empower hungry readers everywhere to feed themselves and their loved ones well and have fun doing it. Rather than focusing on restriction or deprivation, she asks: What can we add to our plates?

After she turned to TikTok for a creative outlet, her series of big, meal-in-a-bowl salads, known affectionately as “Hungry Lady Salads,” went viral on social media, and she found a likeminded community of home cooks who wanted to fall in love with cooking again. In Ashmore’s debut cookbook, she shares 110 wholesome, mostly gluten-free recipes that are full of flavor, nourishment, and fun — and meant to be devoured in big bites! With her signature personality and joy, this cookbook is a celebration of nature and seasonality and encourages home cooks to rethink familiar ingredients.

Ashmore is the chef, recipe developer, and digital creator behind Kat Can Cook. She graduated from the award-winning Institute of Culinary Education in New York and went on to work for Martha Stewart, developing retail recipes and producing cooking segments on the eight-time Emmy Award-winning “The Martha Stewart Show.” Ashmore lives in Fairfield County, Connecticut, with her husband, Michael, and their family.

This event is cohosted by Darien Library and Wilton Library, and will take place in Darien. Register on Darien Library’s website.