Tin Can Cook: 75 Simple Store-cupboard Recipes

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Winner of the OFM Best Food Personality Readers' Award, 2018 Food writer and anti-poverty campaigner Jack Monroe presents Tin Can Cook, bringing together seventy-five recipes that you can rustle up from tinned and dried ingredients. If you've ever struggled to make a dish because the recipe calls for an exotic ingredient you've never heard of, then this is the book for you. Jack does away with the effort; all her dishes are exciting and new, but you won't have to look further than your local supermarket to make them. Jack's recipes include Red Lentil and Mandarin Curry, Catalan Fish Stew, Pina Colada Toast and many more delicious and creative ideas. Simple and affordable, Tin Can Cook strips away the blinding glamour and elitism of many cookbooks and takes it back to the basics: making great-tasting food with ordinary ingredients.

Jack Monroe is a campaigner against hunger and poverty in the UK and an award-winning cookery writer. She is author of three cookbooks: Cooking on a Bootstrap, A Girl Called Jack and A Year in 120 Recipes. Jack was awarded the Fortnum and Mason Judges' Choice Award in 2013 and the OFM Best Food Personality Readers' Award in 2018.

Using predominantly ingredients from cans, the book's recipes - rhubarb and custard pancakes, "tin-e-strone", beer-battered sardines - are an exuberant rebuttal to the idea that good food must be expensive, farm-fresh and unprocessed. -- Ruby Tandoh * Vice * Tin Can Cook is a brilliant book full of recipes which are accessible to all sorts of budgets and easy to make. At a time when good food can often be seen as rather elitist or exclusive, Jack has done an excellent job to create recipes which are simple, straightforward and delicious. -- Felicity Spector Jack Monroe is both cookery writer and tenacious campaigner . . . she understands first hand what it's like to be skint and have the desire to put something delicious on the table. -- Nigel Slater I honestly think this is an era-defining cookbook, and a brilliant, thoughtful, incredibly useful piece of work. -- Marina O-Loughlin Jack Monroe is the Queen of Cans, and her Tin Can Cook is a wonderful resource for cheap, nutritious and delightful tin-based cookery. -- Olivia Potts, Spectator If she wasn't already a legend . . . she has 100% reached national treasure status now. -- Stylist