Bill Granger has a particularly attractive way with food. His new book is a collection of unfussy, stripped down classics, aimed at providing a comprehensive guide to cooking some of Granger’s best dishes at home. Granger’s food is hard to describe properly. It’s homely and comfortable, but the influence of the Sydney restaurant scene screams [...]
Mark Hix runs a clutch of restaurants in London and another one in the coastal town of Lyme Regis in Dorset. With his food, Hix wanted to rekindle the old London chop houses – restaurants that flourished during the 1800s that were ‘civilised places to eat big chunks of meat.’ A constant theme on Hix’s [...]
Frank Camorra owns and operates a Spanish restaurant in Melbourne, Australia called MoVida. It’s wildly successful and highly acclaimed. This book, MoVida Rustica, written in conjunction with Richard Cornish is Camorra’s latest evangelistic push for Spanish cuisine. MoVida Rustica is an absorbing and captivating book, part recipe book, part travelogue, documenting Camorra’s culinary trips of [...]
I must admit to approaching Yotam Ottolenhi’s Plenty with some trepidation. It’s a vegetarian cookbook. I am not a vegetarian. You may have noticed this. Vegetarian cooking just isn’t my strong point. I’m not militant about my meat-eating, though, and I’m not averse to vegetarian cuisine. I just don’t think about my cooking as either [...]
The recession might be technically over, but these things have a long tail and there’s more misery afoot, especially once the new occupants of Downing Street start to swing their cross-party scythe. Austerity has crept back into fashion. People want – need – their money to go much, much farther than it ever has done [...]