Cooking with The Master Chef: Food For Your Family & Friends

Description

Michel Roux has a justifiable reputation as someone who knows everything there is to know about food, how it should taste and how it should be cooked. He is very serious-minded about cooking and his masterly performances on MasterChef have created a wide and admiring fan base. 'MasterChef...shows cooking how it should be and it's very good at showing the passion and skills required in becoming a chef...and you learn something about food.' Food has always been at the forefront of his life and the recipes in this book are a distillation of his vast knowledge and experience, made available to the home cook.

Michel Roux Jr is one of London's most respected chefs. Le Gavroche, which he has run since 1994, has 2 Michelin stars and receives recommendations for excellence in every food guide. Since August 2008 Michel has been a regular on Master Chef. He is a keen fisherman and marathon runner.

'Elegant French recipes, such as duck confit, lobster with garlic butter and pink praline tart, that should appeal to any cook'--SQUARE MEAL 'Michel Roux Jnr's autobiography-cum-cookbook is half food memoir, half French recipe collection and wholly engrossing. Roux's anecdotes provide a fascinating window on a life spent pioneering French haute cuisine as a member of the UK's defining culinary dynasty'--CATERER & HOTELKEEPER 'Roux's magnanimity - along with his passion for food and serious work ethic - shine through... the recipes in it are accessible, uncomplicated and wonderfully tempting'--METRO