A Girl and Her Pig - Hardcover

Bloomfield, April

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0062003968 ISBN 13: 9780062003966

Publisher: Ecco Press, 2012

Synopsis

In A Girl and Her Pig, April Bloomfield takes home cooks on an intimate tour of the food that has made her a star. Thoughtful, voice-driven recipes go behind the scenes of Bloomfield's lauded restaurants?The Spotted Pig, The Breslin, and The John Dory?and into her own home kitchen, where her attention to detail and reverence for honest ingredients result in unforgettable dishes that reflect her love for the tactile pleasures of cooking and eating. Bloomfield's innovative yet refreshingly straightforward recipes, which pair her English roots with a deeply Italian influence, offer an unfailingly modern and fresh sensibility and showcase her bold flavors, sensitive handling of seasonal produce, and nose-to-tail ethos. A cookbook as delightful and lacking in pretention as Bloomfield herself, A Girl and Her Pig combines exquisite food with charming narratives on Bloomfield's journey from working-class England to the apex of the culinary world, along with loving portraits of the people who...

About this title

Product Description:

April Bloomfield, the critically acclaimed chef behind the smash hit New York restaurants The Spotted Pig, The Breslin, and the John Dory, offers incomparable recipes and fascinating stories in this one-of-a-kind cookbook and memoir that celebrates all things pork and more. A Girl and Her Pig is a carnivore's delight, a gift from one of the food industry's hottest chefs--in the upper echelon alongside Mario Batali, David Chang, and the legendary Fergus Henderson--featuring beautiful illustrations and photographs, and refreshingly unpretentious, remarkably scrumptious recipes for everything from re-imagined British pub favorites such as Beef and Bayley Hazen Pie to Whole Suckling Pig.

Review:

"April, April, April - what a chef! Delicious, brilliant, inspiring... With her book, A Girl and Her Pig, you can now sample her splendid food in your own kitchen" (Fergus Henderson)

"Such a brilliant, beautiful book from one of my favourite cooks, one of the most humble, genius chefs on the planet. This chick cooks like a ninja, and now she's giving you all of her secrets - what are you waiting for?" (Jamie Oliver)

"April Bloomfield is already someone I admire enormously, and whose food I adore, one terrific restaurant after another. But with her book, she's done yet another extraordinary thing: it's a beast - and it's going right up there on the special shelf next to the classics. Whenever I eat April's food, read her menus or cook from her recipes, I feel like she's reading my mind. It's always exactly what I wanted and needed, but better. I want to be just like her when I grow up" (Anthony Bourdain)

"April Bloomfield's beautiful book is one of only a handful that make me want to go straight into my kitchen and start to cook. A triumph" (Russell Norman)

"This is a fine book, and a good read" (Shaun Hill Caterer and Hotelkeeper)

"This beautiful book is accurately subtitled 'Recipes and Stories', for at every turn, April tells a little story about creating the dish, or why she has chosen a particular combination of ingredients, or how a flavour conjures a particular memory" (Good Book Guide)

"Bloomfield is definitely a chef worth booking in for" (Victoria Stewart London Evening Standard)

"You can bet this woman doesn't only think in food: she dreams in it, too" (Ruby Warrington Sunday Times Style)

"Her influences range from her time spent at the River Café and Bibendum, all of which come together into beautifully rustic, relaxed cooking with an underlying commitment to precision" (Eve O'Sullivan Gerber Public Relations)

"GQ's favourite female chef . . . With great photography (by David Loftus) and illustrations, you won't know whether to read it, use it, or just admire it" (GQ)

About this edition

• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0062003968
• ISBN 13: 9780062003966
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352