Delicious Recipes from your local shop

The Cornershop Cookbook

Based on simple, local, quick ingredients you can buy at any cornershop, this is how we really shop and cook

From yam to Spam and greens to sardines, these recipes aim to show the wealth of culinary creativity to be unlocked from modest cornershop offerings

A great book: delicious recipes, beautifully written – it will make your weeknights much tastier

Itamar Srulovich and Sarit Packer, Honey & Co.

So, so good – utterly do-able yet inventive

100 excellent reasons not to go to the supermarket: I absolutely love this book

Discover overlooked ingredients and learn new ways with everyday staples to create deliciously simple meals.

The Cornershop Cookbook is a great little book, and one that I think I’ll refer to frequently on rushed weekday evenings

At last- for those of us who live in the land of the urban cornershop, a collection of recipes that use all the stuff (weird foreign tins, dusty broccoli) you can buy round the corner

The Cornershop Cookbook… will inspire a newfound love for weeknight corner shopping and cooking

Filled with simple and tasty dishes conjured from easy-to-find, humble ingredients

This little gem of a cookbook [is]… a veritable masterclass in amazing dishes you can make from your cornershop

When the rest of us see resignation in a tin can, they see a feast in the offing...Inspirational

Quirky genius... An abundance of solid, inventive recipes made from easily obtained ingredients

In reality, we often have to make do with whatever we can forage from Londis on the way back from work, and The Cornershop Cookbook understands that. Hallelujah!

Caroline Craig (Author) 
Caroline Craig comes from generations of French fruit farmers and wine producers from Provence. A childhood spent gobbling black truffles, tomatoes and peaches left her with little choice but to shape her life around delicious food. She lives in London, writes for the Guardian and enjoys food styling and photography. 
 
Sophie Missing (Author) 
Sophie Missing grew up in London and studied English at UCL. She worked in publishing at Penguin, where she edited lots of delicious cookbooks, among other things. She now works as a freelance writer, editor and occasional food stylist.

Looking for quick healthy meal ideas using ingredients from your local shop? The Cornershop Cookbook has the answers! 
 
 From yam to Spam and greens to sardines, these mouthwatering recipes reveal the wealth of culinary creativity to be unlocked in your local shop. There are dead simple recipes for a quiet night in like Linguine with Tinned Crab; vibrant alternative takeaway offerings like Twice-Cooked Aubergine with Vietnamese Sauce; solutions for weeknights, from simple Smoked Salmon Baked Eggs to the larger-scale Fish Finger Tacos; there is comfort food, from nourishing Thyme, Chorizo and Leek Broth to a down-and-dirty Meatball Sub; and finally there are sweet treats like Frostie Florentines. 
 
 
 Using easily available ingredients, this book will inspire you to create delicious meals for the whole family. 
 
 ‘Filled with simple and tasty dishes conjured from easy-to-find humble ingredients’ Crumbs

The Little Book of Lunch

Delicious and simple recipes for the working person’s packed lunchbox.

A little book of clever ideas for the daily lunchbox

Packed full of food you can really get excited by, it's a much-needed rallying call to reclaim the lunch hour!

This book will do more for happiness in the British Workplace than three extra Bank Holidays. A brilliant and inventive set of recipes, menus and shopping lists that will transform your lunchtimes.

A rallying cry to the homemade midday meal, packed with recipes and ideas that promise to transform working life

The move towards packed lunches is happening more and more, and one book  that we think will inspire a few extra converts is this one ... [an] inspiring little book

This book is perfect. Not only that, it is beautifully presented, fun, delightful, and full to capacity of ways to make a packed lunch memorable

Guaranteed to inject some joy into your lunchtime routine and save money at the same time

Give a copy of the book to everyone in your team and you'll never go hungry at work

The only problem with this is the lunches look too good in the pictures

With a combination of sweet and savoury ideas, it is an essential lunchtime accessory that won’t leave you short on ideas anytime soon

If you are stuck in a cheese toastie rut, The Little Book of Lunch…is full of inspiration under sensible chapter headings, such as: “When you are chained to your desk” and “Bribing colleagues with sweet treats”

Sophie Missing and Caroline Craig met while working in editorial and publicity at Penguin Books where they discovered a shared passion for making their own delicious, simple and cost-conscious packed lunches. They live in London.

New to making your lunch at home? Staring into your fridge in despair? 
 
 The Little Book of Lunch is for you! 
 
 Filled with delicious and simple recipes, The Little Book of Lunch has clever approaches to classics making them easy for working from home, meals that taste delicious at room temperature, quickly assembled dishes for when you barely have five minutes and recipes for when the cupboards are bare. It includes: 
 
 -Wholesome and healthy salads like tabouleh 
 -Indulgent and decadent dining like grilled halloumi, vegetable and avocado couscous 
 -Sandwiches for when you are chained to your desk like guacamole and tomato salsa on rye 
 -Store-cupboard snacks like spicy lentil and coconut soup 
 -Sweet treats to brighten up the day like salted caramel brownies 
 
‘Packed full of food you can really get excited by, it's a much-needed rallying call to reclaim the lunch hour!’ Felicity Cloake

Sophie Missing

Caroline Craig

Eggs, avocado, bacon, bagels - the roll-call of delicious ingredients shows why brunch is by far the best meal of the day. 
 
 
Discover 100 delicious recipes for the best meal of the day. 
 
The Little Book of Brunch features a selection of the world's best ever brunch recipes, ranging from Middle Eastern Shakshuka to traditional English Savouries, from simple Baked Eggs to indulgent Brioche French Toast. 
 
Whether you're in the mood to make something sweet or savoury, speedy or slow, these easy and adaptable recipes are everything a meal should be, whatever the time of day.

Sophie Missing

The Little Book of Brunch

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