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Beyond Baking is an evolution in pastry from award-winning pastry chef Philip Khoury – an exploration of how far baking can go when it’s guided by flavour, process, and purpose, rather than tradition alone. These recipes are the result of years of rethinking everything – what gives structure, what builds richness, what creates lift and tenderness – without relying on eggs, dairy, or highly processed alternatives. Instead, they use familiar, natural ingredients to achieve results that feel completely fresh: croissants that shatter, cakes that stay tender for days, savoury pies that could hold their own in any bakery window. Inside, you’ll find easier bakes like Peanut Butter Choc Chop Cookies and Light Fruit Cake, showstoppers like Pistachio and Raspberry Cream Dream and Muscovado Medovic and a dedicated chapter on laminated pastries featuring Croissants, Almond Pain au Chocolat, and other sweet risen treats like glazed Doughnuts and Pistachio Babka. The savoury chapter brings deeply satisfying options like Corn-ish Pasties, Sausy Roll and Nightshade Quiche, all made with technical care and zero shortcuts. Foundational techniques are clearly explained in The Plantry, and select new recipes include QR code tutorials to walk you through every fold, mix, and proof. Whether you’re just beginning or looking to expand your craft, Beyond Baking invites you to look again at what baking can be when it’s not copying what came before, but creating what comes next.
The Bloomsbury Group fostered a fresh, creative and vital way of living
that encouraged debate and communication (‘only connect’), as often as
not across the dining table. Gathered at these tables were many of the
great figures in art, literature and economics in the early twentieth
century: E. M. Forster, Roger Fry, J. M. Keynes, Lytton Strachey and
Virginia Woolf, among many others. Here the Bloomsbury story is told in
seven broadly chronological chapters, beginning in the 1890s and
finishing in the very recent past. Each chapter comprises a series of
narratives, many of which are enhanced with an appropriate recipe,
along with sketches, paintings, photographs, letters and handwritten
notes, and featuring original quotations throughout.
Part cookbook, part social and cultural history, this book will appeal
to lovers of food and lovers of literature alike.
WINNER OF THE FORTNUM & MASON DEBUT FOOD BOOK AWARD 2021 WINNER
OF 2021 LAKELAND BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Extraordinary. Vivid,
irreverent, heartbreaking.' NIGEL SLATER 'So funny and so
delicious. I could eat it.' DAWN O'PORTER 'Delicious.' THE OBSERVER
From an early age, Grace Dent was hungry. As a little girl growing
up in Currock, Carlisle, she yearned to be something bigger, to go
somewhere better. Hungry traces her story from growing up eating
beige food to becoming one of Britain's best-loved food writers.
It's also everyone's story - from cheese and pineapple hedgehogs
and treats with your nan, to the exquisite joy of a chip butty
covered in vinegar and too much salt in the school canteen on a
grey day. And the Cadbury's Fruit & Nut from a hospital vending
machine that tells a loved one you really care. Grace's snapshot of
how we have lived, laughed and eaten over the past 40 years reveals
the central role food plays in either bringing us together or
driving us apart - from toasting a large glass of warm Merlot to
grimly polishing off a wilted salad. Heartfelt, witty and joyous,
Hungry shows us what we've always known to be true. Food, friends
and family are the indispensable ingredients of a life well lived.
What you eat has a direct effect on your health and well-being. The
first four titles in this colourful series explore the value of
eating a healthy diet. From succulent juices packed with vitamins
and minerals to revitalise every part of your mind and body to
speciality soups for every occasion - whether you need a warm
pick-me-up or a summer snack. Ultimate Olive Oil provides a wealth
of information on all the varieties of olive oils now available in
the supermarkets and speciality shops and details hundreds of
recipes in which the various olive oils are used.
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