Gaby Dalkin
Gaby Dalkin is the chef and cookbook author behind What’s Gaby Cooking, sharing California-inspired recipes, dinner-party ideas and the everyday pleasure of feeding people.
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Known for
- What’s Gaby Cooking: Grilling All the Things2024 · Author
ABRAMS - What’s Gaby Cooking: Take It Easy2022 · Author
ABRAMS - What’s Gaby Cooking: Eat What You Want2020 · Author
ABRAMS - What’s Gaby Cooking: Everyday California Food2018 · Author
ABRAMS - HarvestAbsolutely Avocados2013 · Author
- What’s Gaby Cooking for Crate & Barrel2024 · Designer
Crate & Barrel
Overview
- Based in
- Los Angeles, California
- Work
- Chef, recipe developer, cookbook author and entrepreneur
- Started
- What’s Gaby Cooking, 2009
- First cookbook
- Absolutely Avocados, 2013
- Signature style
- California-inspired food and casual entertaining
Mini bio
How it started.
Gaby began college on a pre-med path, switched to business and worked in fashion PR. When that company folded, she enrolled in a small Los Angeles culinary program. In 2009, she started What’s Gaby Cooking to show friends and family what she was learning while working as a private chef.
The breakthrough.
Jessica Simpson mentioning the blog’s Slutty Brownies on The Tonight Show brought a rush of visitors that crashed the site. Gaby kept building a voice around approachable California cooking and gathering people at the table.
From the blog to the bookshelf.
Absolutely Avocados arrived in 2013. Everyday California Food followed in 2018, then Eat What You Want in 2020 and Take It Easy in 2022. Her 2024 book, Grilling All the Things, became an instant New York Times bestseller.
Around the table.
Her work now reaches beyond recipes: Dalkin & Co. offers seasoning blends, her Crate & Barrel collection includes dinnerware and serving pieces, and her Neighborly restaurant menu brings together salads, sandwiches, wraps and bowls.
Creditschronological, newest first
Cookbooks
- 2024What’s Gaby Cooking: Grilling All the ThingsAuthor
- 2022What’s Gaby Cooking: Take It EasyAuthor
- 2020What’s Gaby Cooking: Eat What You WantAuthor
- 2018What’s Gaby Cooking: Everyday California FoodAuthor
- 2013Absolutely AvocadosAuthor
Design
- 2024What’s Gaby Cooking for Crate & BarrelCollection designer
Quotes
Olive oil, lemons, and garlic. Those three are the base of essentially everything I make.Gaby Dalkin, A Cuppa With: Gaby Dalkin, Frank & Eileen
Asked which three ingredients are always in the kitchen. Source linked below.
Trivia
- Ree Drummond’s storytelling on The Pioneer Woman helped inspire Gaby to start a blog.
- In a 2023 interview, Gaby said every cookbook recipe gets tested at least four times.
- Her first cookbook idea began with a joking suggestion to an editor: avocados.
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Recipes, kitchen chats and a seat at the table.
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