Title:	Noon: Simple Recipes for Scrumptious Midday Meals and More
	Author:	Meike Peters
	Published:	September 5, 2023, Chronicle Books
	No. of Pages:	272
	Cover Price:	$29.95 Hardcover, $9.89 Kindle

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Tired of boring tuna or grilled cheese sandwiches and plain boring salads for lunch? With the economy as it is, most of us can’t afford to eat out at lunchtime, and need to bring our own to work. Noon: Simple Recipes for Scrumptious Midday Meals and More, by Meike Peters will definitely solve the problem It is a beautiful cookbook with dozens of innovative and scrumptious ideas for lunches that aren’t boring or tasteless. Actually Peters has taken many of the modern trendy ingredients that are popular nowadays and incorporated them into fabulous salads, tarts, sandwiches, soups and more.

The recipes are written in the traditional manner with the ingredients listed first followed by step-by-step instructions that are easily followed by both beginning and advanced cooks. There are also comments at the beginning of each recipe, which are very helpful. One of the best parts of this excellent cookbook is that there are beautiful, professional photographs of almost every dish, which make the recipes even more tempting. The book is heavy on salads and vegetables, so vegetarians will also like this cookbook.

With this cookbook on the shelf, lunch will be the most anticipated meal of the day and boring will be a thing of the past.

Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.