for someone like me, this book feels like salvation. Salad leaves, bread (oh the bread), carrots, bananas... all slowly blackening in their bowls, sweating limply in bags or just going kind of weirdly soft. What do you do with all this food that you bought with SUCH good intentions? Well, Self titled food waste disruptor Martyn Odell (aka Lagom Chef) is here to help with a book that will change the way we think about food, and, more importantly, show us how to use it up in very tasty ways.
15 ingredients make up the contents, spread across veg, meat & fish - 15 ingredients that are often, due to neglect or inspirational drought, consigned to bins. Each ingredient gets a chapter that details what it is, how to store it, how to cook it and a variety of recipes that display its mouth pleasing qualities. The recipes also shout about WHY they work - what is it that lemon doing, why add salt, where is the sweetness coming from?
The there is a back section that tells you how to use your cupboard essentials to best effect - your salt, your eggs, your rice, etc,, with more advice and how to cook know how. If 'use-up-the-fridge-bulgar' doesn't send a tingle down your extremities... well, i don't know what to say.
'Eat the food you buy for f**ks sake' closes the introduction - it sounds so easy... Martyn Odell makes it easy.
Size: 254 x 195mm (hardback)
Pages: 304
Publisher: Penguin
