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SIMPLE

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Simple by Diana Henry offers a collection of uncomplicated recipes that aim to transform everyday ingredients into extraordinary meals. The book focuses on ease and flavour, providing home cooks with creative solutions to effortlessly elevate their dining experiences. With a mix of comforting classics and innovative dishes, it inspires culinary exploration without the fuss.
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You might enjoy this book if you love creating delicious meals without the fuss. It offers a collection of straightforward yet inventive recipes, perfect for anyone who appreciates flavourful dishes made with minimal effort. Cooking aficionados and those seeking inspiration for weeknight dinners will find plenty to savour.

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Winner of The Fortnum and Mason Cookery Book of the Year Award 2017

'This is everything I want from a cookbook: inspiration, intelligent company, great good-mood food, and beautiful writing.'

Nigella Lawson

'No one writes about food so beautifully with recipes which are, as the title says, simple to prepare yet always enticing. A treasure both to give and receive.'

Julia Leonard, London Evening Standard

'Her latest book, Simple, is destined to become a classic.'

Daily Telegraph

'Diana Henry's latest release is packed with tasty recipes we want to make again and again'.

Jamie Magazine

'I have always been a fan of this author for her good basics and sensible recipes that taste delicious. She writes well and gets the gastric juices going'.

Irish Examiner

'It's the next best thing to going to a favourite friend's for dinner and knowing that the food will be delicious, you're going to love and be nourished by everything, there won't be a weird fancy table placement and there is no risk that you'll ever run out of wine. Reading her recipes is almost as satisfying as making and eating them.'

Daisy Buchanan, The Pool

'A book to adore'

Tom Parker Bowles, Mail on Sunday

Simple is her 10th book, and one of her very best; beautifully written and endlessly inventive, it would make a great gift for anyone interested in good food with minimal effort (i.e. just about anyone).

Felicity Cloake, The Guardian

'Another outstanding collection of recipes for getting lunch or dinner on the table "quickly and easily, but with pizzazz". It's also a fascinating look at how eating habits have changed over the past decade'.

Sunday Times

No one is better than Diana Henry at turning the everyday into something special. Here is a superb collection of recipes that you can rustle up with absolutely no fuss, but which will knock your socks off with their flavour.

Peppered throughout the book are ingenious ideas such as no-hassle starters and sauces that will lift any dish. From Turkish Pasta with Caramelized Onions, Yoghurt and Dill and Paprika-baked Pork Chops with Beetroot, Caraway and Sour Cream to Parmesan-roasted Cauliflower with Garlic and Thyme, Diana takes the kind of ingredients we are most likely to find in our cupboard and fridge - or be able to pick up on the way home from work - and provides recipes that will become your friends for life.

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Simple by Diana Henry receives praise from culinary experts like Yotam Ottolenghi, who expresses a strong desire to try everything she cooks.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781845338978

Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 08 September 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Mitchell Beazley

Illustration: 130 colour photographs

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 34.0mm

Width: 196.0mm

Height: 250.0mm

Weight: 1183g

Pages: 336

About the Author

Diana Henry is one of our best-loved food writers. She has a weekly column in The Sunday Telegraph and also writes for Red, Saga, House and Garden and BBC Good Food magazines, as well as being a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio 4. Diana has won numerous awards for her journalism and books, including Cookery Journalist of the Year from the Guild of Food Writers (three times, most recently in 2015) and Cookery Writer of the Year at the Fortnum & Mason Food Awards in 2013 and 2015. A Change of Appetite was voted Cookbook of the Year by the Guild of Food Writers in 2015, and A Bird in the Hand was the winner of a prestigious James Beard award in 2016. Her other books include Crazy Water Pickled Lemons, Cook Simple, Salt Sugar Smoke and Roast Figs Sugar Snow. She lives in London with her partner and children.

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