This is full of ideas for those who don’t want a prescriptive approach to recipes. I love Niki’s style of writing – packed with knowledge and information, but conveyed with such a lightness of touch. Pulling off the trick of being delightful and informative is pretty rare, I find. Yotam Ottolenghi, The best cookbooks of all time It has intrigued, inspired, amused and occasionally infuriated me all year, and will for years to come. Such has been the case with The Flavour Thesaurus by Niki Segnit (Bloomsbury). The books I value most are those I return to again and again. The Flavour Thesaurus is a deceptively simple little masterpiece, set to take its place by McGee on Food and Cooking as a household Bible. If you care about these things – or even just want to care – you’ll need at least three copies: one each for the kitchen, bathroom and bedside table. An eclectic combination of dictionary, recipe book, travelogue and memoir…Erudite and inspiring, practical and fun, it will make you salivate, laugh, take issue and feel vindicated…Segnit does for flavour what Lucca Turin achieved for scent in Perfumes: The A-Z Guide, but her book should come with a warning: open these pages at the peril of being late for your next appointment.
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