The Secret of Cooking - Bee Wilson

Any cookbook that has a quote from Nigella as good as this one should gain your attention: 'A genuinely game-changing cookbook . . . there's not a kitchen that should be without a copy'.

The subtitle is recipes for an easier life in the kitchen. One of the things that would make life easier in my kitchen is for my cat to stop gettingn under my feet . . . but I guess that is beyond Wilson's control!

The index page gives an idea of Wilson's style; the chapter sections include cut yourself some slack and reduce your options: the sweetness of routine. In one of the early sections Bee suggests that you can teach yourself to cook with a carrot. What she means by this is that by using that cheap everyday ingredient you can learn various techniques and flavour profiles: knife skills, seasonal variation etc. So there are recipes for grated carrot salad, butter poached carrots, carrot and panch pooran pickle, gochujang carrots with fried spring onions and silken tofu, seared carrots, carrot mash and more.

Wilson is also straight forward with advice, If a particular brand of grater is the one she rates above all others she tells us.

It is also a great read.

Hardback. 420 pages.

Measurements:

18.5cm x 26cm x 3.7cm