' The Great British Culinary Renaissance we hear so much about may have done many things
- given us extra virgin olive oil, better restaurants & gastroporn
- but what is hasn't done is teach us how to cook'. How to eat is a book that does: part recipe collection, part culinary manifesto & part evocation of the pleasures of eating, it has hundreds of recipes & menus, but more than that, it encourages you to see cooking in context &, most important, to acquire a real understanding. It covers kitchen basics, children's food, everyday cooking, weekend lunch, the last-minute dinner party
- & much more. But at its heart, it is about a feeling for food, a book to be read as well as cooked from. HOW TO EAT is a book that wrests cooking back from the professional kitchens & the trendy menus to give confidence back to the ordinary, unexpert home cook. Unique, invaluable, comprehensive, this is a celebration of good food & an utterly modern kitchen vade mecum.