'Dan Lepard is to baking what Lewis Hamilton is to Formula One.' - Jay Rayner 'Simply the most beautiful, flour-dusted, crisp-crusted, heaven-scented, honey-coloured loaf I could ever have hoped for ... Mr Lepard, I love you.' - Nigel Slater 'Dan Lepard - one of the first bakers and writers in the UK to get people interested in honing their baking skills.' - Diana Henry 65,000 copies sold With more than 75 recipes, from dark crisp rye breads and ricotta breadsticks through to effortless multigrain sourdough, The Handmade Loaf guides you through the stress-free techniques you need to make and bake great breads at home. Made and photographed in kitchens and bakeries across Europe, from Russia through to the Scottish Highlands, Dan Lepard's ground-breaking methods show you how to get the most flavour and the best texture from sourdough and simple yeast breads with minimal kneading and gentle handling of the dough. Let this classic cookbook guide you to making superb bread at home.

Winner of the Andre Simon Food Book Award 2011 The ultimate baking compendium from Dan Lepard, the country's foremost baking guru. Dan Lepard's innovative and earthy approach has made him the baker that every top chef wants in their kitchen, and with this utterly dependable how-to-bake book you'll be baking cakes, pastries, breads and cookies like never before. Collecting together Dan's best recipes - and mixing science with old-fashioned kitchen wisdom - Dan has tried and tested almost every baking technique out there. Guiding you through the crispest flatbreads, blue cheese and oatmeal biscuits, gluten-free white loaves, savoury leek and smoked haddock pies, caramel sweets, frostings, simple scones and pumpkin and ginger cupcakes, Short and Sweet uses the newest flours and ingredients and has everything from updates on the classics to the latest in baking for intolerances. If baking is therapy then Dan is your life coach. He'll show you how to improve, what to work on, how to take what is just ok right up to brilliant, without a sweat. No wonder he is the country's cutting-edge baker.

Seventy recipes and plenty of advice make up this lavish celebration of the most talked about restaurant in Britain--the Hawksmoor restaurants, focusing on all things beef

Providing unique insight into the enthusiasm and passion that go into creating great food and drink, this practical cookbook describes how to buy and cook great steak and seafood and much more, including how to make the "best burger in Britain" and the "best roast beef in Britain;" how to mix terrific cocktails; and how to choose wine to accompany a meal. When the proprietors of Hawksmoor started out they had a simple plan--to open the best steak restaurant in London. They traveled the world searching for the perfect steak, but discovered that beef from traditional breeds, reared the old-fashioned way in Britain, and cooked simply over real charcoal, packed more flavor than anything they tried in their travels. Their credo is simple: the best ingredients--dictionary-thick steaks from Longhorn cattle traditionally reared in North Yorkshire by the multiple award-winningThe Ginger Pig, dry-aged for at least 35 days, simply cooked on a real charcoal grill. Their cocktails, wines, and desserts too have been applauded. This sumptuous book, designed by David Eldridge (Ottolenghi's "Plenty") is an extended love letter to beef and all the numerous other things that make Hawksmoor the well-loved restaurant that it is.