Leon: Ingredients & Recipes

Description

In Leon: Ingredients and Recipes , award-winning chef and cookery writer Allegra McEvedy shares the Leon principles, which through food and the environment in which we eat it aim to help people be happier and live longer. Bold, fun, friendly and bursting at the seams with information, this book will make you laugh out loud and above all make you want to cook and eat. 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 its ingredients above all for their flavor and healthfulness 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. LEON's top 250 fruits, vegetables, fish, meats, dairy ingredients and pantry staples are all given their own entries. Nutrition, a bit of history, flavor and the best way to get the most out of them are all covered, seasoned with a fair amount of random miscellany. The second half is The Recipe Book, where you can put your newly found knowledge of ingredients to great use with over 140 recipes: some are familiar favorites taken from LEON's menus such as the Original Superfood Salad, Moroccan Meatballs or Magic Mackerel Couscous and, for LEON Lovers everywhere, at last a recipe for the coveted LEON Better Brownie. Plus there are some recipes from the founders, their friends and those who helped make LEON what it is today, like Fred's Millennium Octopus and David Dimbleby's Spanish Omelet. LEON's food message is a simple and honest one - cook and eat with the best ingredients available and don't forget the naughty bits that are so necessary for a fully-rounded life. Review: Highly informative, but also lots of fun! - Unusual cookbook with, as the title suggests, 1/2 of the book about ALL kinds of ingredients - "the right basic building blocks" to create "good" and "good for you" food. The 21 Leon restaurants are located primarily in England so fruit and vegetable varieties may be unavailable to some of us; however, having first read the book at the library I knew this. I was so impressed with the text, creative and colorful illustrations and underlying philosophy I still thought I had to have it. Full range of illustrated, interesting and easy to prepare recipes.Strong binding and heavy matte finish paper assure a book that will last. Review: Beautiful cookbook! - I got this for my grandson, Leon. The cover is so pretty, and the food is very special. He is learning to cook so I figured this is more of an aspirational book right now. I was inspired myself and tried out some recipes, they are not very detailed so you kind of need to have your skills ready be for you get started.