Bitter

**AS SEEN ON SATURDAY KITCHEN** A 2023 FOOD & DRINK BOOK OF THE YEAR (WATERSTONES)

‘DELECTABLE’ Nigella Lawson | 'A GEM OF A COOKBOOK' Rukmini Iyer | ‘LOVELY RECIPES' Georgina Hayden | 'STUNNING AND INVENTIVE’ Ixta Belfrage | 'EXCITING COMBINATIONS’ Dominique Woolf | ‘MARVELLOUS’ Olly Smith

A collection of flavourful, vibrant recipes to impress this Christmas. Fearlessly bringing together the best flavours and culinary strategies from around the world, Alexina Anatole will help you use bitter flavours in your cooking to improve the taste of everything you make, whether it's a savoury weeknight dinner or a sweet and decadent dessert - one flavour-balancing technique at a time.

These 80 recipes take classic favourites to a new level and include moreish solutions for every occasion such as:

• Coffee Pecan Banana Bread
• Raw Kale and Grapefruit Salad
• Roast Chicken with Beer Butter Onions
• Saffron Yogurt + Cranberry Persian(ish) Rice
• Ancho Coffee Beef Short Ribs
• Aubergine, Walnut + Pomegranate Melanzane parmigiana
• Rarebit Mac’n’ Cheese
• Negroni Pavlova
• Great Gran's Christmas Pudding
• Jamaican Guinness Punch

Using ten star ingredients with recipes that demonstrate how to cook with each type of bitterness - from grapefruit and bitter oranges, bitter greens, tahini, beer, walnuts, cranberries, tea, coffee, cocoa and liquorice - each dish will expand your repertoire and open the door to new worlds of deliciousness.