Completely Perfect: 120 Essential Recipes for Every Cook

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An essential omnibus of the very best of Felicity Cloake's recipes, with tips on how to make anything from the perfect beef wellington to the perfect poached egg Felicity Cloake has rigorously tried and tested recipes from all the greats - from Nigella Lawson and Delia Smith to Nigel Slater and Simon Hopkinson - to create the perfect version of hundreds of classic dishes. Completely Perfect pulls together 120 essential recipes from her popular Guardian columns. Never again will you have to rifle through countless different books to find your perfect roast chicken recipe, mayonnaise method or that incredible tomato sauce - it's all here in this book, along with dozens of invaluable prepping and cooking tips that no discerning cook should live without.

Felicity Cloake is a journalist and food writer from London. She's the food columnist for the New Statesman, and she writes the weekly 'How to Make the Perfect...' columns in the Guardian. She was named Food Journalist of the Year and won the New Media of the Year Award at the 2011 Guild of Food Writers Awards. She is the author of Perfect, Perfect Too, Perfect Host and The A-Z of Eating.

The nation's taster-in-chief title belongs unequivocally to Felicity Cloake * Daily Mail * Brilliant . . . Finely honed culinary instincts, an open mind and a capacious cookbook collection . . . Miss Cloake has them all * Evening Standard * An essential on your cookbook shelf * Woman and Home * A gift for anyone who is learning to cook * Diana Henry, Sunday Telegraph * Completely Perfect is aptly named! * Nigella Lawson * A classic. The answer to a gazillion 'what shall I buy them for Christmas?' questions. Long may Felicity Cloake test 12 versions of one recipe so we can have one good one * Rachel Roddy * There's a very good reason why the cover of this paperback looks so like your treasured old Penguins of Elizabeth David and Jane Grigson - Cloake's collection of brilliant master recipes deserves its place there * Tim Hayward, Financial Times * Properly practical * Rachel Cooke * A discursive, chatty, knowledgeable and didactic kaleidoscope of a book * Daily Mail * Reading her thorough assessment of the other recipes is one of the biggest resources out there for anyone wanting to learn to become a better cook. An excellent gift for basically anyone who likes to cook * Elly Pear *