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The A-Z of Eating

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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.

A Flavour Map for the Adventurous Cook

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.

'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.

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.

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