The D I Y Cook - Tim Hayward

Hardback.  Very good condition.  2015

If you're a Food Adventurer, you cook for pleasure.  You love trying out new dishes on family and friends, and you never miss a chance to improve your knowledge and skills. You're at your happiest when you have hours to devote to a fascinating recipe.

In The DIY Cook, each chapter is led not by recipes but by projects - nuts-and-bolts guides for the food-lover with free time for fun in the kitchen.  Constructing a cassoulet, boning and stuffing a pig's trotter, building a trifle.  Each project inspires related but simpler recipes, skipping across time, cultures and cuisines - Classics that you have always wanted to try- Poule au Pot, Roast Suckling Pig, Mutton Raan.  Classics with an ingenious twist- Duck à la Presse made à la Voiture; Kentucky Fried Rabbit.  Classics that might be new to you- Banh mi sandwiches, authentic right down to the rice-flour baguette; Vincisgrassi (think, 'Extreme Lasagne'); and Feijouada, a gloriously extravagant party dish from Brazil.

Tim Hayward, food enthusiast and journalist, restauranteur and author of Food DIY, is your guide on the ultimate food adventure.