Product Description

Maze is one of the most exciting and original restaurants to open in London in recent years, not least due to its talented head chef Jason Atherton. Focusing on quality ingredients, imaginative flavour combinations and simple presentation, the food is served in small tapas-style portions, enabling the customer to savour a wide variety of dishes in a single meal. Now, in his enticing first cookbook Jason Atherton brings the delights of Maze-style cooking to the home cook. Maze The Cookbook reveals the secrets of 30 of Jason s signature dishes served as they would be in the restaurant including Marinated Beetroot with Goat s Cheese, Chard and Beetroot Dressing, Butter Roasted Cod with Silk Mash and Spiced Lentils and Mango Parfait with Orange Anise Jelly. Each dish is followed by two more recipes based on the same core ingredients, flavourings or techniques, created by Jason especially for the book and devised to be served as a course in their own right be it starter, main course or dessert. Whether the reader is looking to serve a Maze-style meal based on a collection of smaller dishes or a conventional two or three course meal, they will find plenty of inspiration here. With its original approach and accessible fresh, modern recipes all beautifully photographed by Ditte Isager this is a superb, innovative cookbook.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #614 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-18
• Format: Illustrated
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

Review
You may know Jason Atherton as head chef at Gordon Ramsay's Michelin-starred London restaurant, 'Maze'. Jason describes his favourite recipes just as they are prepared in the restaurant, offering everyone the opportunity to create a little Maze at home, and follows each recipe with two more dishes based on the same core ingredients. --DELICIOUS magazine, March 2008

Olive magazine - BOOK OF THE MONTH
This cookbook by seriously talented chef Jason Atherton is the kind that makes it worth spending hours in the kitchen. Beautifully photographed, it's packed with recipes that reflect the clever, well thought out food served at MAZE, where Atherton is executive chef. Many of the recipes, such as braised shin of veal with pea risotto, require skill and time to put together their constituent parts but you can cherry pick parts to make alone, such as the risotto. This is the perfect present for a competent cook.

Sainsbury's magazine
The head chef of Gordon Ramsay's MAZE in London shares the recipes for its famous tapas-style dishes, for you to make at home. try butter-roasted cod with silky mash or steamed smoky sea bass with candied aubergine.

Customer Reviews

clever marketing again from ramsay holdings
This book is for the home cook, I doubt there is one single dish from his restaurant here, if there is how does he have a star??. Very poor expected more from this guy, they must have paid ferran adria to write the introduction. if any professional is considering buying this DONT!! you will be sorry as I am. Again ramsay holdings have marketed this book so well, just like they do with marketing the michelin guide probably the only reason ramsay maintains so many starred restaurants at once. Michelin have to sell books too you know.

Simply Delicious!
This book is brilliant! The dishes included are very wide-ranging with something to suit all occassions and moods. All the recipes I have tried have been very easy to follow and, most importantly, delicious to eat...

Just a basic book for home cooks.
I would have to say that I was rather disapointed with this book. As a chef myself I was looking forward to reading recipes to some of the amazing Maze restaurant dishes. But actually this book is more of a basic home cook book.

It does include some great recipes of dishes from the restaurant but most are very basic recipes for the home cook. Obviously most cook books are geared towards the home cook and recipe books that are written for chefs are a little daunting for the general home cook but if using the restaurants name for the book it should have a reasonable amount of dishes that are actually from the restaurant thet it shares the name with.
I personally dont think that this book is a good reflection of the food at maze (yes I have been) and is definetly not a reflection of the chef Jason Atherton cooking amazing talents.