Laura Santtinni

Restaurateur, author and food entrepreneur Laura Santtini is considered to be the world authority on umami at home. Since launching Taste #5, the world’s first umami paste in 2009, Laura has been recognised globally as the Umami Queen and is credited with single handedly pioneering the use and understanding of the intriguing fifth taste at home. Her life’s mission to demystify the notion of umami and make this hitherto ‘Chef’s best kept secret’ available to cooks of all levels has resonated with home cooks around the world. Her debut book ‘Easy Tasty Italian’ won her the coveted Best First Book Award at the Guild of Food Writers Awards in 2010. She followed this success with the popular ‘Flash Cooking’ in 2011 in which she pioneered a new cooking genre. This is her first book for Ryland Peters & Small. Laura lives, breaths and eats umami and this is her first book dedicated to her special subject umami and transformational world of savoury deliciousness and the world a flavours and feelings it compliments.