Product Description

Building upon the ever-more-popular principles of 'The New English Kitchen' and 'The Savvy Shopper', Rose Prince's new book celebrates good British food and shows how to make the most of ingredients and leftovers. Hot chestnut and honey soup, whipped potatoes with Lancashire cheese, melted ale and cheddar to eat with bread, baked haddock soup, saffron buns and watercress and radish sauce for pasta: just a few of the 200 completely delectable and original recipes in this inspiring new book. In it Rose explores affordable and easy good food. She unlocks a larder of new and unfamiliar English ingredients from cobnuts to red Duke of York potatoes to watercress and also shows how eating local can mean good eating at the same time as being good for the environment. She explains how and where to shop and introduces a rhythm of cooking, identifying which foods are right for everyday meals, and which for the occasional feast. She shows how to make the most of costly ingredients - traditional breeds, organic produce and handmade foods - recycling leftovers for yet more delicious meals. Leftovers from a roast beef joint, for instance, become an aromatic salad with toasted green pumpkin seeds and herbs, or, simmered with fungi and red wine, a rich braise to eat with mash or buttered ribbons of pasta. The New English Table is proof that good eating does not have to cost the earth.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #84702 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 480 pages

Review
'An inspiring guide to rediscovering long--lost British ingredients and recipes.' Daily Mail 'A proper kitchen book, made to spend time on the kitchen table!A book that chimes with the 'new austerity' ethos of buying wisely and making it last.' Time Out 'Rose manages to turn traditional and unfamiliar ingredients into something special - but without the angst. We love how she recycles leftovers in ingenious ways to make really good food go further. Even nervous cooks will be won over!' SHE Praise for 'The New English Kitchen': 'At last, a fresh voice in the kitchen.' Nigel Slater 'An exceptional new cookbook.' Bee Wilson, Sunday Telegraph 'Every kitchen needs a Rose' Nigel Slater 'A timely book with a practical and economical approach to sourcing top-quality, locally produced food.' Evening Standard 'A cookbook with a difference. I instantly warmed to its readability, fierce intelligence and admirable sense of economy.' Chris Hirst, The Independent 'In its particular combination of pleasure and principle, "The New English Kitchen" can claim to be a subtly transformative work.' Bee Wilson, Times Literary Supplement 'A proper kitchen book, made to spend time on the kitchen table!A book that chimes with the 'new austerity' ethos of buying wisely and making it last.' Time Out

Time Out
'A proper kitchen book, made to spend time on the kitchen table.'

SHE
'Ingenious ways to make really good food go further. Even nervous cooks will be won over!'

Customer Reviews

Don't most of us eat in the kitchen...?
The title of Rose Prince's latest book The New English Table suggests that she has moved on from her previous book, The New English Kitchen. It also raises the question wherein lies the difference, particularly as I'm not sure who can tell where the kitchen ends and the table begins. After all, don't most of us eat in the kitchen nowadays?

Rose's fans - and she has a growing following - are probably happy enough to hear from her whatever she has to write... If Kitchen is about, and this is taken direct from the cover, "changing the way you shop, cook and eat", Table makes the more modest claim of "over 200 recipes that will not cost the earth."

Table is divided up by ingredients .....eggs.....ox tongue......peas .....and so on: some familiar, others outré. Each follows a simple enough formula with an introduction, various recipes including leftovers and a section on buying (with, believe it or not, no mention of FoodLoversBritain.com as a useful tool for sourcing. Competitors' websites yes; us- no. But let's rise above that).

The recipes - cheap or otherwise (and there are quite a lot of the latter) - are infinitely appealing and, in most cases, eminently cook-able. Think Water Pudding, Ham & Peas dressed with Mayonnaise and Capers or Eggs in Tarragon Jelly and you'll get a sense of what's on offer. Considered and carefully chosen, there's an interesting balance of British and Abroad. In other words Rose knows her roots and although is happy to travel, never strays too far.

Disappointing
I think Rose Prince is a great consumer journalist, but I'm afraid I found this book disappointing. No matter how worthy the message, if it doesn't inspire, I think the message is lost...and this book really doesn't inspire me, at all.

Where is this book?
It would be great if this book were actually in the bookshops on the date of publication. As of yesterday afternoon, it was no-where to be seen, not even in Waterstones in Piccadily; how come all the sellers on Amazon have it (allegedly) when the physical bookstores don't? Can anyone enlighten me?