The Ten (Food) Commandments: Jay Rayner - Softcover

Rayner, Jay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241976693 ISBN 13: 9780241976692

Publisher: Penguin, 2016

Synopsis

Britain's culinary Moses brings us the new foodie rules to live by, celebrating what and how we eat

The Ten Commandments may have had a lot going for them, but they don't offer those of us located in the 21st Century much in the way of guidance when it comes to our relationship with our food. And Lord knows we need it.

Enter our new culinary Moses, the legendary restaurant critic Jay Rayner, with a new set of hand-tooled commandments for this food-obsessed age. He deals once and for all with questions like whether it is ever okay to covet thy neighbour's oxen (it is), eating with your hands (very important indeed) and if you should cut off the fat (no). Combining reportage and anecdotes with recipes worthy of adoration, Jay Rayner brings us the new foodie rules to live by.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

'The original Ten Commandments don't offer those of us located in the 21st Century much guidance when it comes to our relationship with food. And Lord knows we need it. We are crying out for our very own culinary Moses; someone with the scholarship, dignity and teeth to stand in culinary judgement.

I know just the man. Oh, come on. Who else? I have a beard flecked with grey, shaggy hair, and I look hot in flowing robes.

So come with me as I deal once and for all with the question of whether it is okay to covet thy neighbour's oxen (it is), whether you should cut off the fat (you shouldn't) and why you should never mistake food for pharmaceuticals which can cure you of all known disease.

I will also insist that thou shall honour thy pig. Because everything is improved by the application of a little pig...'

About the Author:

Jay Rayner is an award-winning writer and broadcaster, best known as restaurant critic for the Observer. He is a former Critic of the Year and Restaurant Critic of the Year, and in the 2014 British Press Awards he was shortlisted for both Critic of the Year and Specialist Journalist of the Year. In a recent survey of journalists and the public by UK Press Gazette Jay was voted the most influential food and drink journalist in Britain. He likes pig.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0241976693
• ISBN 13: 9780241976692
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160