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How to eat a peach
How to eat a peach: Menus, stories and places | Diana Henry
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'This is an extraordinary piece of food writing, pitch perfect in every way. I couldn't love anyone who didn't love this book.' - Nigella Lawson When Diana Henry was sixteen she started a menu notebook (an exercise book carefully covered in wrapping paper) in which she wrote up the meals she wanted to cook. She kept this book for years. Putting a menu together is still her favourite part of cooking. Menus aren't just groups of dishes that have to work on a practical level (meals that cooks can manage), they also have to work as a succession of flavours. But what is perhaps most special about them is the way they can create very different moods - menus can take you places, from an afternoon at the seaside in Brittany to a sultry evening eating mezze in Istanbul. They are a way of visiting places you've never seen, revisiting places you love and celebrating particular seasons. How to Eat a Peach contains many of Diana's favourite dishes in menus that will take you through the year and to different parts of the world.
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AllDebooks
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This book is stunning. A celebration of food, taste, menus and sharing them with others. Henry offers up planned seasonal menus with personal viginettes throughout. Highly recommended.

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Emilymdxn
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This is the kind of food writing that makes you fall absolutely in love with all the ways of eating food. I quite rarely get excited over cooking (I‘m not very good at it and find it a bit scary) but this was so gentle, evocative and beautiful, with such effortlessly gorgeous pictures, it made me desperate to eat home cooked food in Turkish street cafes or Sicilian family gardens 💖

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Mitch
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The fridge is stocked with tomatoes, anchovies, fennel and apricots - it‘s going to be a great months cooking!

Every month my husband & I choose a cookbook from the shelf and try to cook as many meals as possible from that one book! This is our August pick!

Oryx That's such a good idea 6y
Tamra That is a great idea - think I‘ll try it! 6y
Weaponxgirl That's an awesome thing to do! 6y
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catebutler What a great idea! And this cookbook is fabulous! 6y
SW-T Great idea! 😊 6y
Mitch We love it @Oryx @Tamra @SW-T @Weaponxgirl It helps with shopping when you focus on one type of cuisine and we also come out of each book with a set of firm favourites! 6y
Mitch It‘s new to us @catebutler but it looks and reads beautifully. I have high hopes! 6y
Hollie That is a great idea! 6y
Smrloomis Oooh, great idea! 6y
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Mitch
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Chosen my next cook book! Looking forward to a few weeks of making beautiful crab quiche, pickled cherries and apricot cake. With a textured cover( peachy fuzz!) and food writing to make your mouth water - this book is the full package!

Sophoclessweetheart Oh! They look scrummy yum! 6y
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