Leon - Ingredients & Recipes

Author(s): Allegra McEvedy

Healthy Living | General Cookery | Restaurant Books

This is a book of two halves. "The Ingredients Book" arms you with everything you need to know about the basic building blocks of any recipe. Leon chooses it's ingredients above all for their flavour and healthiness but also with a view to the world we live in, so that such shark-infested waters as sustainable fish are tackled and easy to navigate. In the first half of the book Leon's top 250 fruits, vegetables, fish, meats, dairy and store cupboard ingredients are all given their own entries. Nutrition, a bit of history, flavour and the best way to get the most out of any given ingredient are all covered...seasoned with a fair amount of random miscellany. You will also travel to the outer-starburst that is 'Brassica Galatica', discover 'Passports for Herbs' and have your very own pull-out "Rainbow Seasonality Guide".The second half is "The Recipe Book" - this is where you can put your newly found knowledge of ingredients to great use.

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Leon was voted 'Best New Restaurant' by judges Rick Stein, Gordon Ramsay, Nigel Slater, Heston Blumenthal and Jay Rayner in the 2005 Observer food awards. Includes two gatefolds; two ribbons; stickers pages, die-cuts and map insert Specially commissioned photography by award-winning photographer, Georgia Glynn Smith. Leon won the 2007 RSPCA Good Business Award for the Best Restaurant Chain. In 2008 Allegra was awarded an MBE for services to the hospitality industry.

Allegra McEvedy founded, with partners Henry Dimbleby and John Vincent, Leon, the award-winning, healthy, fast-food restaurant chain, which currently has eight London restaurants, with more planned for 2008. Leon was voted "Best New Restaurant" by judges Rick Stein, Gordon Ramsay, Nigel Slater, Heston Blumenthal and Jay Rayner in the 2005 Observer food awards. In 2008 Allegra was awarded an MBE for services to the hospitality industry.

Introduction: The Idea, Our Story, Foundations; Ingredients: Fruit, Veg, Fish, Meat, Dairy, Dry Stores - Includes the top 250 ingredients Leon use every day in their restaurants; Recipes: Breakfasts, Soups, Salads, Starters, Sharers & Sides, Grills & Sauces, Slow Cooks, Puds, Drinks; Suppliers, Index, Acknowledgements

General Fields

  • : 9781840915020
  • : Conran Octopus
  • : Conran Octopus
  • : September 2008
  • : 253mm X 201mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : September 2008
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Allegra McEvedy
  • : Hardback
  • : 641.5
  • : very good
  • : 312
  • : 200 colour photographs