A Flavour Map for the Adventurous Cook

The A-Z of Eating

'Full of recipes you want to cook' - Diana Henry 
 
'Not only a collection of fabulous recipes but an inspiring guide to flavours and ingredients and how they work together' - Nigella Lawson 
 
This is a cookbook for people who are looking for inspiration rather than instruction; one that will make you look at familiar ingredients in a new light, and welcome new ones with open arms. 
 
Here Felicity Cloake offers an ingredient for each letter of the alphabet - twenty-six of her favourite things to eat, and recipes using them which will change the way that you think about these ingredients forever. In the Blue Cheese chapter, a Roquefort and honey cheesecake with walnut and pear; in Caramel, roast duck with miso caramel and in Rhubarb, rhubarb gin granita. 
 
Yet there are also more straightforward dishes, no less original or delicious: beetroot noodles with goat's cheese, toasted walnuts and baby kale; chorizo baked potatoes with avocado crema; slow roast tomato pasta with lemon salt, ricotta and basil. And there are many more playful takes on favourite dishes: salted peanut caramel crispy cakes, aloo tikki scotch eggs, jelly cherry jubilee, buttermilk onion rings. 
 
This is a book to shake you out of your recipe rut and make you start to think about food, and cook it in an entirely new way.

Truly thoughtful, discursive book full of recipes you want to cook

Not only a collection of fabulous recipes but an inspiring guide to flavours and ingredients and how they work together. My copy is already bristling with post-it notes.

So clever - adventurous but demystifying

A delight in every way.The book for the good and the greedy - cheerful, friendly, smart, with deeply desirable recipes written with grace and a fine appreciation of appetite.

Brilliant . . . Finely honed culinary instincts, an open mind and a capacious cookbook collection . . . Miss Cloake has them all.

Felicity Cloake's impressive research is worn lightly beneath her amiable and witty style, which is clear, informative, even-handed and full of common sense.

Felicity Cloake is a journalist and food writer from London. She writes for the Daily Mail, Metro, New Statesman, and writes the weekly columns 'How to Make the Perfect . . .' and 'Readers' Recipe Swap' in the Guardian. She was named Food Journalist of the Year and won the New Media of the Year Award at the 2011 Guild of Food Writers Awards. She is the author of Perfect, Perfect Too and Perfect Host.

The recipes in The A-Z of Eating are all themed around Felicity Cloake's favourite ingredients (A is for Almond, B is for Blue Cheese, C is for Caramel and so on). Each chapter opener contains a fascinating introduction to the ingredient, blending history, food science, and much more. There are recipes to impress (roquefort and honey cheesecake with walnut and pear, roast duck with miso caramel); recipes for party food (cheese and marmite doughnuts, sriracha rice crispie cakes); right down to simple yet utterly delicious midweek suppers (slow roast tomato pasta with lemon salt, ricotta and basil, charred squash soup with zhoug and toasted pumpkin seeds). A must for all food-lovers.

92 More Essential Recipes for Every Cook's Repertoire

Perfect Too

Having rigorously tried and tested recipes from all the greats - Elizabeth David and Delia Smith to Nigel Slater and Simon Hopkinson - Felicity Cloake has pulled together the best points from each to create the perfect version of 92 more classic dishes, from perfect crème brulee to the perfect fried chicken. 
 
Never again will you have to rifle through countless different books to find your perfect pulled pork recipe, Thai curry paste method or failsafe chocolate fondants - it's all here in this book, based on Felicity's popular Guardian columns, along with dozens of practical, time-saving invaluable prepping and cooking tips that no discerning cook should live without. 
 
Following on from the much-loved Perfect, Perfect Too has a place on every kitchen shelf.

Felicity Cloake is a journalist and food writer from London. She writes for the Daily Mail, Metro, Fire &amp; Knives magazine, New Statesman, and writes the weekly columns 'How to Make the Perfect...' and 'Readers' Recipe Swap' in the Guardian. She was named Food Journalist of the Year and won the New Media of the Year Award at the 2011 Guild of Food Writers Awards. She is the author of Perfect and Perfect Host.

15 Essential Recipes for the Perfect Christmas

Perfect Christmas Day

Brilliant . . . Finely honed culinary instincts, an open mind and a capacious cookbook collection . . . Miss Cloake has them all

Felicity Cloake is a journalist and food writer from London. She writes for the Daily Mail, the Metro and Fire &amp; Knives magazine and has a weekly column in the Guardian. She was named Food Journalist of the Year and won the New Media of the Year Award at the 2011 Guild of Food Writers Awards. Her first book, Perfect, is published by Penguin. 
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Christmas dinner is perhaps the one meal of the year where even the most relaxed cook feels the pressure of perfection - and, although few menus can be more familiar, it's probably the one we all feel the least confident about. 
 
Cooking Christmas dinner can be stressful, but there's no need to rifle through recipe books, or frantically Google turkey cooking times on Christmas morning as Felicity Cloake has tried and tested recipes from all the greats - from Nigella Lawson and Simon Hopkinson to Delia Smith and Mrs Beeton - and pulled together the best points from each to come up with the ultimate Christmas Day recipe collection. 
 
Based on Felicity's popular Guardian column, Perfect Christmas Day combines invaluable prepping and cooking tips to calm the most frazzled of festive souls and, of course, fifteen delicious recipes. From mulled wine, blinis, stilton soufflés and the perfect prawn cocktail to turkey and gravy, stuffing, sprouts, roast potatoes, pigs-in-blankets, nut roast, and cranberry and bread sauce, to trifle, mince pies and brandy butter, Perfect Christmas Day is all you need to prepare the perfect Christmas dinner.

68 Essential Recipes for Every Cook's Repertoire

Perfect

Whether you're a competent cook or have just caught the bug, Perfect has a place in every kitchen. 
 
Is there a foolproof way to poach an egg? 
What's the secret of perfect pastry? 
Could a glass of milk turn a good Bolognese into a great one? 
 
The Guardian's 'How to Make' food columnist Felicity Cloake is on a mission to find the perfect staple dishes - from spag bol to brownies to fish pie. Having rigorously tried and tested recipes from all the greats - including Elizabeth David, Delia Smith and Nigel Slater - Felicity has pulled together the best points from each to create the perfect version of 68 classic dishes. 
 
Never again will you have to rifle through countless different books to find the your perfect roast chicken recipe, mayonnaise method or that incredible tomato sauce - they're all here. 
 
'Brilliant . . . finely honed culinary instincts, an open mind and a capacious cookbook collection . . . Miss Cloake has them all' Evening Standard

Felicity Cloake

The nation's taster-in-chief title belongs unequivocally to Felicity Cloake

Brilliant . . . Finely honed culinary instincts, an open mind and a capacious cookbook collection . . . Miss Cloake has them all

An essential on your cookbook shelf

A gift for anyone who is learning to cook

Completely Perfect is aptly named!

A classic. The answer to a gazillion 'what shall I buy them for Christmas?' questions. Long may Felicity Cloake test 12 versions of one recipe so we can have one good one

There's a very good reason why the cover of this paperback looks so like your treasured old Penguins of Elizabeth David and Jane Grigson - Cloake's collection of brilliant master recipes deserves its place there

A discursive, chatty, knowledgeable and didactic kaleidoscope of a book

Reading her thorough assessment of the other recipes is one of the biggest resources out there for anyone wanting to learn to become a better cook. An excellent gift for basically anyone who likes to cook

120 Essential Recipes for Every Cook

Felicity Cloake has rigorously tried and tested recipes from all the greats - from Nigella Lawson and Delia Smith to Nigel Slater and Simon Hopkinson - to create the perfect version of hundreds of classic dishes. Completely Perfect pulls together 120 essential recipes from her popular Guardian columns. Never again will you have to rifle through countless different books to find your perfect roast chicken recipe, mayonnaise method or that incredible tomato sauce - it's all here in this book, along with dozens of invaluable prepping and cooking tips that no discerning cook should live without.

Completely Perfect

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Brilliant . . . Finely honed culinary instincts, an open mind and a capacious cookbook collection . . . Miss Cloake has them all

An essential on your cookbook shelf

The nation's taster-in-chief title belongs unequivocally to Felicity Cloake

Brilliant . . . Finely honed culinary instincts, an open mind and a capacious cookbook collection . . . Miss Cloake has them all

An essential on your cookbook shelf

The nation's taster-in-chief title belongs unequivocally to Felicity Cloake

Brilliant . . . Finely honed culinary instincts, an open mind and a capacious cookbook collection . . . Miss Cloake has them all

An essential on your cookbook shelf

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