By Heart

Easily my (Ari, owner of Short Wave) favorite cookbook, this 2026 James Beard Award winner teaches you to make over 100 restaurant-quality recipes at home. With simple techniques and complex flavors, you'll reach for this again and again.

Growing up cooking the Sunday gravy, meatballs, and pasta alongside her Italian American grandmother, Hailee Catalano developed a huge passion for food. This passion led her to the Culinary Institute of America, and then to cooking in restaurants. But somewhere along the way, Hailee started to miss the home cooking that made her fall in love with food in the first place. Restaurants made it seem like beautifully made food was too difficult to recreate at home. 

In By Heart, you'll find:

• Seasonal pastas like Pasta alla Norcina with Roasted Squash
• Veggie-forward recipes designed to make the most of your CSA box  like Caponata with Dried Cherries and Green Olives
• Simple meat dishes like Roast Chicken with Red Wine Vinegar and Honey
• Breads like Hearty Seeded Rye Bread
• Compound butters like Calabrian Chile Honey Butter
• Condiments  like Chicago-Style Fennel Giardiniera
• Perfect beach sandwiches like Brie and Butter Sandwich with Shallot-y Frisée
• Simple sweets like Malted Milk Butter Cookies
  and so much more

Dimensions: 10.3" x 8.3" x 1.2" (26 x 21 x 3 cm)
Hardcover
English

Hailee Catalano was trained in culinary school and worked as a cook in high end restaurants in Chicago for years until deciding to turn her focus to developing and sharing recipes for home cooks during the pandemic.

She always felt like there was a perception that good food was only for fancy restaurants, not something the average person could whip up at home. But she decided to change that! Her goal is to inspire everyone with easy and inventive recipes, showing that anyone can create delicious meals right in their own kitchen.

She has an excellent recipe blog, cafehailee.com.