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The Good Table

ebook / ISBN-13: 9781845337032

Price: £14.99

ON SALE: 5th January 2011

Genre: Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure

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‘Valentine has left no culinary stone unturned and has achieved what all cookbooks strive for, in that you want to go home and cook everything in the book!’ – Fergus Henderson

Featured in Vegetarian Living, Valentine Warner takes us on a journey to home food heaven. The food on your table is at the heart of the house, and The Good Table shows that it is best when sourced and cooked with love and care.

In this book, Valentine pays homage to the slow cooking of cheaper cuts of meat, whilst encouraging us to enjoy less widely-used meat such as rabbit and venison. His ingredients are local, mostly inexpensive and easy to find, yet his dishes are often surprising, based on forgotten classics or hailing from distant countries such as Mexico and Morocco.

The food you put on your table is at the heart of the house, as a matter of survival and joy. Everything we eat sustains family, friends and self, and The Good Table shows that it is best when sourced and cooked with love and care.

Whether making comforting favourites such as Toad in the Hole or Paella, classic dishes such as Beef Suet Pudding or a Brandy Snap with Berries, or recipes from far-flung shores such as Lapland Fish Soup and a Spanish dish of Chorizo in Cider, Valentine’s omnivorous curiosity and attention to detail set his recipes apart.

In this timely book, Valentine pays homage to the slow cooking of cheaper cuts of beef, pork and lamb, whilst encouraging us to enjoy less widely-used meat such as rabbit and venison. His ingredients are local, mostly inexpensive and easy to find, yet his dishes are often surprising, based on forgotten classics or hailing from distant countries such as Mexico and Morocco.

For Valentine, The Good Table starts with good shopping, and he encourages us to not be afraid of buying new ingredients, especially when they are affordable and plentiful. He seeks out sustainable fish, creates luxuries from everyday ingredients such as bread and eggs, and cooks fruit and vegetables when they are in season.

Contents Includes…

Meat
Birds
Fish & Shellfish
Veg & Foraged Foods
Bread, eggs & Cheese
Toast as a Vehicle
Puddings
Drinks

Reviews

Valentine Warner is the real deal, a boyishly enthusiastic champion of cooking the tastiest produce when nature says so.
- You Magazine, Mail on Sunday
Valentine Warner is the TV cook of the moment.
- Telegraph Magazine
My new food writer crush, Valentine Warner, who is fast replacing Nigel Slater in my affections. He has two books out, and all his grub seems to be as hearty and delicious as Slater's, but with a bit more panache.
- Domini Kemp, The Irish Times
Val's infectious schoolboy charm is endearing
- Budgens Magazine
Valentine couldn't write a clichéd sentence if he tried.
- Dorset Magazine