Flavour: A World of Beautiful Food by Vicky Bhogal

Flavour: A World of Beautiful Food by Vicky Bhogal

Walk into your kitchen and open the cupboard doors, chances are you will find bottles of moss green olive oil nestling alongside dark, salty soy sauce; pungent vanilla essence next to scarlet incendiary pots of chilli powder; flaky dried oregano next to piquant malt vinegar. Borders have been drawn and redrawn throughout history. Perhaps with cooking there are now no borders at all: we can enjoy the tastes of many parts of the world in our own homes very easily, whenever we like. In FLAVOUR: A World of Beautiful Food, Vicky Bhogal takes an array of delicious ingredients and shows how to combine them according to their flavour in simple and imaginative ways, to create exciting new dishes. As she says, 'I am delighted by the fact that, in the little corner of the metropolis I have made my own, I am able to draw from a rich, sprawling heritage of centuries of ingredients traversing their way across the globe. That with a flick of a lid or stir of a spoon, I can add the perfumed whisper of a Persian court, an echo of cool pine forests at twilight or the faint tap of a tango on cobbled alleyways to my daily urban life, while the cars roar by outside.' Containing over 100 mouth-watering and inspiring recipes, including Wafer-sliced Duck Risotto with Spiced Plums and Star Anise, Tiger Prawn and Mandarin Soup, Turkish Delight Chocolate Ice-Cream Drops and White Pears on Black Ice, FLAVOUR is an enchanting book for cooks of all abilities who want to try something truly different.

Vicky's gorgeous new book is like a warm ray of sun, you can feel her positive energy bursting from every beautiful pageA fabulous culinary journey from an immensely generous spirit, the recipes have a tantalising blend of exotic ingredients that reflect her life and travels. Her book is peppered with delightful pictures and drawings to inspire any jaded cook * Sophie Conran *
The recipes in this flavourful book are intriguingly inviting. I look forward to uniting some of the wonderful and some lonelier ingredients on my shelves towards these inspiring combinations * Tessa Kiros *

Vicky Bhogal exploded onto the food scene in 2003 with her first cookbook, the bestselling Cooking Like Mummyji, a love letter to the Punjabi Indian food she was brought up on. It won the Jeremy Round award for Best First Book at the Guild of Food Writers Awards and was shortlisted for Best Book at the Glenfiddich Awards. In 2005 she conceived, compiled and edited the celebrity recipe book A Fair Feast, which has raised over £100,000 for The Fairtrade Foundation and Oxfam's Make Trade Fair Campaign. In 2006, she published her third book, A Year of Cooking like Mummyji, exploring British Asian styles of cookery against the backdrop of the seasons.

Vicky also created her own authentic food range, 'Just Like Mummyji's' exclusively with Tesco in 2005, winning her a Grocer Award in 2006. She lives in London and is currently developing her own restaurant venture and new product lines as well as writing her first novel. Find out more at www.vickybhogal.com.

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ISBN 13	9780340963180
ISBN 10	0340963182
Title	Flavour: A World of Beautiful Food
Author	Vicky Bhogal
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Hodder & Stoughton
Year published	2009-04-16
Number of pages	224
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.