In this fun and entertaining recipe book without any recipes, Ottolenghi co-writer Tara Wigley equips you with rhymes and confidence to cook great food instinctively.
Melted butter on hot toast and served up on a plate.
It seems like nothing, really, could be clearer or more straight.
But though, in terms of things required, the number is just two, there is a lot of wiggle room for what there is to do.
Cook and author Tara Wigley had been to cookery school, read hundreds of cookbooks and developed recipes for over a decade.
Yet she found the fewer the ingredients in a recipe, the more confusion there was about how best to make it.
The result is How to Butter Toast, a collection of rhymes that will enlighten and entertain, reassure and ultimately liberate the culinarily confused.
The rhymes provide reassuring – and memorable – answers to the culinary conundrums we often face:
How long should I boil an egg?
What’s the best way to crush garlic?
How do I make mayonnaise, a martini or indeed the perfect cup of tea?
Tara’s playful take on these food quandaries seems effortless but belies her knowledgeable and carefully researched approach to cooking.
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