LATERAL COOKING

You could cook from it over a whole lifetime and still be learning Nigella Lawson A rigorous nuts and bolts bible of a book Jay Rayner Observer Lateral Cooking uncovers the very syntax of cookery Yotam Ottolenghi Astonishing and totally addictive Brian Eno The groundbreaking book that reveals the principles underpinning all recipe creation from the author of the bestselling The Flavour Thesaurus Do you feel you that you follow recipes slavishly without understanding how they actually work Would you like to feel freer to adapt to experiment to play with flavours Niki Segnit author of the landmark book The Flavour Thesaurus gives you the tools to do just that Lateral Cooking is organised into 77 starting point recipes including plenty of tips for substituting ingredients and reducing the phenomenal variety of world cuisine down to its bare essentials and then building it back up again So under Bread we learn that flatbreads oatcakes buckwheat noodles chapattis and tortillas are all variations on one theme A few simple tweaks and you can make soda bread scones or cobbler And so on through breads and batters broths stews and dals one dish leading to another Lateral Cooking is as inspirational and entertaining a read as it is a practica