Aoife McElwain is a messy cook, but she’s managed to go from chaos to craic in the kitchen, and that’s what her book, Messy, will help you do too, with simple recipes for chaotic cooks interspersed with musings on how to harness the joy of cooking.

Aoife McElwain is a messy cook, but she’s managed to go from chaos to craic in the kitchen, and that’s what her book, Messy, will help you do too. With simple recipes interspersed with musings on how to harness the joy of cooking, this book is for anyone who’s tired of the cult of busyness and the lie of perfectionism or whose inner critic follows them into the kitchen.