Provides an insight into the author's style of cooking with 160 of his favourite recipes, ranging from Grilled Augergine with Pesto to Roast Chicken and Homemade Ice Cream. This book is arranged alphabetically with a chapter on each food. It also gives advice on quality, variety and good cooking principles.

Taking forty-seven of the author's favourite ingredients as a starting point, this title includes a section on apples with a perfect apple tart recipe, a section on curry recipes with Constance Spry's original Coronation chicken salad dressing and a section on duck, with recipes for Braised duck with peas and classic Roast duck and apple sauce.

Simon is a man who has dedicated his life to a search for the best recipes in the world. In this book, he takes the quest to the finest menus in the world and meets the culinary geniuses who created them. Then he simplifies them in his own kitchen, with his infallible sense of taste, perfectionism and ultimately, his understanding of good home cooking.

Simon Hopkinson reveals the everyday ingredients he can't live without, the inexpensive cuts that produce the best results and he shows how to make the best of them in over 100 recipes.