Nico Ladenis's 'My Gastronomy' was greeted as the cookery book of the year when it was first published. It combines exquisite and innovative recipes - Salade Tiede Homard au Beurre de Truffes, Supreme de Canard au Fumet de Cepes and Marquise au Chocolat - with Nico Ladenis's firm and outspoken opinions on food, customers and cooking. Full of pungent anecdote, savoury advice and lightly salted philosophy, a taste of chapters includes "Inspirations and Influences", "Planning Menus and Choosing Wines", "Presentation" and, controversially, "The Customer is Not Always Right".
This classic cookery book is now reissued to complement his new book 'Nico' and Nico Ladenis says: "I am very pleased that 'My Gastronomy' is being republished. The two books go together and I hope that chefs, restaurateurs, housewives and all those interested in good food and cooking will read them in tandem. They are a pair, they are complementary and, in many ways, indivisible."
