Will This Make You Happy

For fans of Nora Ephron and Nigel Slater, this hybrid memoir and cookbook brings together over fifty inventive baking recipes with a lyrical coming-of-age story about desire and dessert. Perfect for home cooks, lovers of literature, and anyone who finds comfort in the kitchen.

Tanya Bush is adrift in the uncertainty of her early twentiesunemployed, uninspired, and stuck in a long-term relationship that’s lost its spark. One day, just to do something, she decides to bake a cake. It’s gooey in the center, woefully underbaked, an absolute disasterbut it also reminds her of the pleasures of baking: sugar crystals under her fingernails, flour in her hair, and the hard-earned satisfaction of following the steps of a recipe to the end.

Over the course of a year, Tanya embarks on a journey that carries her from her tiny apartment to the sunlit kitchens of an Italianagriturismoto the basement of a bustling Brooklyn bakery, where she rediscovers her appetite for pleasure, indulgence, and meaningful work.

A culinary memoir and love story, interwoven with over fifty innovative and approachable baking recipes,Will This Make You Happyis for readers and bakers looking for something messier, more experimental, and honest than the typical aspirational cookbook.

Tanya Bush is a Brooklyn-based writer and baker. She is the co-founder ofCake Zine, the pastry chef for Tables of Contents and the Brooklyn-based restaurant Little Egg, where her cruller was namedNY Mags Best Pastry. She is the founder of the popular Instagram account @will.this.make.me.happy and is a contributing writer toT:The New York Times Style Magazine.