This is an essential book for people who love cooking and want to sample Hopkinson's innovative recipes which reinvent the often forgotten classics of British cuisine. Recipes such as Roast Goose Stuffed with Mashed Potato, Beetroot Puree with Horseradish and, of course, Gammon and Spinach introduce regional specialities, old favourites and essentials of continental bourgeois cooking with a good smattering of Mediterranean and Eastern flavours. The recipes are easy and accessible and introduced in an engagingly personal style.

'Gammon and Spinach is a book from which I want to eat almost every recipe ... here we have Hopkinson at his award-winning, wide-ranging best.' Clarissa Dickson-Wright, Night & Day

'Each paragraph reveals some little insight, some chef's truc, that is new to me' Rowley Leigh, Sunday Telegraph

'Fully of homely food of the kind everybody now wants to eat and cook' You Magazine