Product Description
Bitter
Author(s): Alexina Anatole
Format: Hardback
80 delicious flavour-packed and original recipes, as seen on Saturday Kitchen
**AS SEEN ON SATURDAY KITCHEN* | 'DELECTABLE' Nigella Lawson | 'A GEM' Rukmini Iyer | 'LOVELY RECIPES' Georgina Hayden | 'STUNNING AND INVENTIVE' Ixta Belfrage | 'A CRACKING BOOK' Olly Smith | 'DELIGHTFUL' Marc Diacono | 'EXTREMELY ACCOMPLISHED' Jay Rayner (on MasterChef)
80 flavourful, vibrant recipes to brighten up your table this Spring.
Fearlessly bringing together the best flavours and culinary strategies from around the world, Alexina Anatole will help you use bitter flavours in your cooking to improve the taste of everything you make, whether it's a savoury weeknight dinner or a sweet and decadent dessert - one flavour-balancing technique at a time.
These 80 recipes take classic favourites to a new level and include moreish solutions for every meal, and include:
Salmon Tacos with Grapefruit AvocadoRoast Chicken with Beer Butter OnionsMatcha Basque CheesecakeAubergine with Whipped FetaAncho Coffee Beef Short RibsNegroni Pavlova
Using ten star ingredients with recipes that demonstrate how to cook with each type of bitterness - from grapefruit and bitter oranges, bitter greens, tahini, beer, walnuts, cranberries, tea, coffee, cocoa, and liquorice - each dish will expand your repertoire and open the door to new worlds of deliciousness.
About the Author
Alexina Anatole is a chef, presenter, and writer based in London. After reaching the final of MasterChef in 2021, she made a brave career change from the trading floor to the food world. Her debut cookbook – Bitter – was published by Square Peg, Vintage in September 2023 to critical acclaim from the likes of Nigella Lawson, Rukmini Iyer, and Waterstones. Anatole also writes Small Wins, a Substack newsletter that enhances your cooking and your life in small, manageable ways. She has been featured on BBC One’s Saturday Kitchen, Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch, and BBC Radio 4’s The Food Programme as well as social media platforms including MOB and TopJaw. She also runs sell-out events, including Sel, London’s most intimate supper club, and Cocoa POP, a chocolate-themed pop-up with chocolatier Octavia Lamb. Alexina is of mixed heritage: the granddaughter of chicken farmers from Cambridgeshire and Saint Lucian grandparents who arrived in London during the Windrush.
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