Easy pantry cooking recipes: Alison Roman’s new cookbook has one glaring problem.

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Alison Roman, star of online food culture in the 2010s, has a new cookbook out that is (in an apparent first for her) slumming it in the Budget Cooking category on Amazon. It’s a pantry book called Something From Nothing , which promises recipes with ingredients that might already be lying around your house, ready to be made into something … from nothing. Although some Roman faithful admit to chafing at the inclusion of recipes that have been previously published online (the famous “ Caramelized Shallot Pasta ” and “ Goodbye Meatballs ” each have a page in here), as a relative latecomer to her oeuvre, I don’t mind having these classics at my fingertips.