A Pike in the Basement by Simon Loftus
You couldn't travel in more delightful company. Simon Loftus is a man with a sense of adventure and a nose for the good things in life. Here he combines a love of food and travel with beguiling style and takes us on a voyage of discovery round some of the world's lesser-known culinary delights. In his hands, freshly baked unleavened bread in a Teheran bakery at midnight, slightly salty, becomes as mouth-watering as white truffles shaved thinly over pasta in Piedmont. The exertions of travel transform a simple omelette in France into a harvest feast, and give tea and fried eggs in Pakistan a hitherto unobserved exoticism. He understands the importance of the right food in the right place at the right time, and the evocative power of tastes and smells to the traveller.
"a heartfelt, witty prescription for a life worth aspiring to and genuinely well-writtenThe next pike I catch is going straight in the basement" Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall"
Simon Loftus (1946-), chairman of Adnams, the Suffolk brewers, is a wine merchant, an amateur cook and an incompetent pianist. He has variously worked as a magician's stooge, a stiltwalker, a scriptwriter and a farm labourer. He has written extensively on wine and the wine trade. He lives in Suffolk with his wife and daughter.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780907871248 |
| ISBN 10 | 0907871240 |
| Title | A Pike in the Basement |
| Author | Simon Loftus |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Eland Publishing Ltd |
| Year published | 2004-09-02 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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