From the New Basics to the New Classics
'New Food' is:
- part Mediterranean, part Asian and part cake
- a healthy way of cooking and eating that is right for now
- over 200 step-by-step recipes that take you from new basics like preserved lemons, pesto and polenta, to new classics like red pepper rolls, parmigiano gelato and Vietnamese noodle soup
- full of great ideas for breakfast, brunch, picnics and parties, with 24 pages of complete dinner party menus
- new thoughts on olive oil, fast food, shellfish, pasta, tomatoes, herbs, sex and weddings
- new information and ideas we can all live by, like eating our mistakes, using non-stick pans, refusing to buy anything called instant and never apologising for our food.