Front cover of Food You Want to Eat by Thomas Straker, hardback

Food You Want to Eat : The instant Sunday Times bestseller - Thomas Straker

Thomas Straker

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  • Pages · 288 pages
  • Publication Date · 08/05/2025
  • Genre · TV / celebrity chef cookbooks
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A Tasting Table "Best Cookbook of the Year
"Chef Thomas Straker shares the Food You Want to Eat in over 100 classic recipes for cooking at home. Uncomplicated, seasonal and delicious, each recipe has the perfect balance of flavours. With cook-on-repeat recipes including:- `Nduja and mozzarella flatbread- Burnt chilli butter- Sweetcorn, tuna and fennel salad- Spiced tomato tagliolini- Roast chicken and butter beans- Sea bass with lentils and salsa verde- Classic tarte tatin- Chocolate mousseThomas cooks with the same stylish simplicity whether at home, online or in the kitchen of his acclaimed London restaurant, STRAKER'S. By breaking down the barriers between chef and home-cook, he shows how quality ingredients and simple techniques lead to amazing results in any kitchen. `I want to eat everything in this book' - Angela Hartnett`An absolute natural with a pitch perfect palate. He has the gift of intuitively and effortlessly knowing how to throw ingredients together and make magic on a plate' - Phil Howard`He knows his way around the kitchen like no one else - every page is a knockout. His recipes are the real deal' - Laurent Dagenais

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