Plagiarist in the Kitchen (eBook)

A Lifetime's Culinary Thefts

Jonathan Meades (Herausgeber)

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2017
Random House (Verlag)
978-1-78352-241-5 (ISBN)

Infos

'I adore Meades's book . . . I want more of his rule-breaking irreverence in my kitchen' New York Times'The Plagiarist in the Kitchen is hilariously grumpy, muttering at us "e;Don't you bastards know anything?"e; You can read it purely for literary pleasure, but Jonathan Meades makes everything sound so delicious that the non-cook will be moved to cook and the bad cook will cook better' David Hare, GuardianThe Plagiarist in the Kitchen is an anti-cookbook. Best known as a provocative novelist, journalist and film-maker, Jonathan Meades has also been called 'the best amateur chef in the world' by Marco Pierre White. His contention here is that anyone who claims to have invented a dish is delusional, dishonestly contributing to the myth of culinary originality.Meades delivers a polemical but highly usable collection of 125 of his favourite recipes, each one an example of the fine art of culinary plagiarism. These are dishes and methods he has hijacked, adapted, improved upon and made his own. Without assuming any special knowledge or skill, the book is full of excellent advice. He tells us why the British never got the hang of garlic. That a purist would never dream of putting cheese in a Gratin Dauphinois. That cooking brains in brown butter cannot be improved upon. And why - despite the advice of Martin Scorsese's mother - he insists on frying his meatballs.In a world dominated by health fads, food vloggers and over-priced kitchen gadgets, The Plagiarist in the Kitchen is timely reminder that, when it comes to food, it's almost always better to borrow than to invent.

Autor

Jonathan Meades is a writer, journalist, essayist and film-maker. He is the author of Filthy English, Peter Knows What Dick Likes, The Fowler Family Business, Museum Without Walls and Pompey. In 2014, he published the first volume of his autobiography, An Encyclopaedia of Myself.His many films for the BBC include Abroad in Britain, Meades Eats, Meades on France and, most recently, The Joy of Essex and Bunkers, Brutalism and Bloodymindedness Concrete Poetry.The Plagiarist in the Kitchen is his first cookbook.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.4.2017
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Grundkochbücher
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Themenkochbücher
• Schlagworte: anna pavord • A Year of Good Eating • a year of good eating kitchen diaries nigel slater • Brutalism • Brutalist Architecture • Capital in the Twenty-First Century • Concrete • concretopia • Cookery • elizabeth david french provincial cooking • Essays • European • Felicity Cloake • Fergus Handerson • fergus handerson the complete nose to tail • food52 • food52 genius recipes • Food and Drink • food writing • Gastronomy • genius recipes • Ghost Stories • Hackney • Iain Sinclair • In Search of Lost Time • julian barnes keeping an eye open • landskipping • London history • London Overground • manufacturing consent • M R James • nairns london • nigella lawson cookery • Nigel Slater • nightwalking • owen hatherley • owen jones the establishment • perfect felicity cloake • phantoms in the brain • Proust • rebel footprints • Recipes • Roast Chicken and Other Stories • sapiens a brief history of humankind yuval noah harari • Simon Hopkinson • simon hopkinson cooks • Steven Poole • steven poole words are weapons • The Best of AA Gill • the elements of style • the establishment and how they get away with it • the house the lake thomas harding • the omnivore's dilemma • The Pedant in the Kitchen • The Pedant in the Kitchen Julian Barnes • the ragged trousered philanthropist • Very British Problems • who touched base in my thought shower • Will Self • yann martel the high mountains of portugal • You Aren't What You Eat
• ISBN-10: 1-78352-241-0 / 1783522410
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78352-241-5 / 9781783522415