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Searching for a cookbook

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  • 10-12-2018 10:45am
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    Twee.
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    I've been challenged to get a book about food/cooking for a Christmas gift, however the receiver can't remember the name :D

    On the off-chance someone might own it, here's what I know:

    Irish female writer
    More a book about cooking techniques & the art of cooking than straight up recipes
    Released in the last 2 years
    Yotam Ottolenghi said he liked it, somewhere (can't recall if he read that, heard it on radio, TV!) :pac:

    Any guidance is most welcome!


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    Staph
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    Maybe something by Darina Allen? She has produced a lot of books, there is one 'Forgotten skills of cooking'.


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    B0jangles
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    Could it be the updated version of The Ballymaloe Cookbook? It came out in 2017 and apparently Yotam Ottolenghi wrote the foreword :)


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    Whistlejacket
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    Maybe Simple by Diana Henry? I think it was released in 2016. Ottolenghi's latest has the same title and I heard him say he really liked her book also. She does write beautifully.


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    shortcircuitie
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    Sounds like Diana Henry to me


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    Twee.
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    I think I'll go with Diana Henry, he would have remembered if it was Ballymaloe.

    Many thanks for all your suggestions, hugely appreciated.


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    BaZmO*
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    Twee. wrote: »
    I've been challenged to get a book about food/cooking for a Christmas gift, however the receiver can't remember the name :D

    On the off-chance someone might own it, here's what I know:

    Irish female writer
    More a book about cooking techniques & the art of cooking than straight up recipes
    Released in the last 2 years
    Yotam Ottolenghi said he liked it, somewhere (can't recall if he read that, heard it on radio, TV!) :pac:

    Any guidance is most welcome!
    Funnily enough I was listening to Matt Cooper last night and he was reviewing Cook Books and he mentioned a book called How to eat a Peach. I didn’t catch who the author was but they were describing it in pretty much the terms you described above, i.e. more about stories, techniques art of cooking etc. Just Googled it and it turns out that it was Diana Henry. By all accounts her books come highly recommended it would seem.


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