Summer's Lease

How to Cook Without Heat

By: Thom Eagle

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Hardcover | 11 January 2020

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224 Pages

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From the author of the Fortnum & Mason Debut Food Book of 2019, Summer's Lease looks at the cooking techniques we use instead of heat which, in letting us step away from the stove, lend themselves perfectly to summer eating: breaking, salting, souring and ageing.

The long dog days of a tiring summer are no time to be a cook. A few charred sardines are of course a wonderful thing, but there the grill sits, pouring out heat into the already-hot kitchen; anyone with any sense who wants charred sardines is somewhere close to the seaside.... It is a time when you might, if you weren’t so hot, wonder what it means to cook at all. Is there cooking without fire...?

We understand that when we say something is cooked, we mean it has been heated; but we also understand that a cook does much more than just cooking. The chopping, the beating, the marinating, the dressing ... What cooks do is best defined not by the word 'cooking', but by the idea of metamorphosis. Cooks transform ingredients.

Through recipes and meanderings, award-winning food writer Thom Eagle explores what it means to create dishes without a reliance on fire and flame, and offers a unique and tantalising glimpse inside the mind of a chef.

About the Author

Thom Eagle is a chef, writer, and Young British Foodies-nominated pickler currently based at Little Duck in East London. He blogs at In Search of Lost Thyme. This is his first book.

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