''This is, quite frankly, my dream book. Buttery bliss from cover to cover'' Nigella Lawson

''The last word on butter. Everyone who cooks needs this book'' Diana Henry

Swirled into hot sugar to create a silken, smoky caramel, or browned until nutty and speckled before being folded through cake batter or buttercreamDotted on to vegetables before roasting or braising, stirred through rice after cooking. Butter won''t just transform your individual dishes, but will transform your way of cooking

Butter: A Celebration is a joyous immersion in all things butter, revelling in its alchemical power to transform almost any dish, from good to transcendent

Award-winning food writer Olivia Potts takes us on a grand tour of butter and its many varied applications, from old school chicken Kiev to mille-feuille, from oysters Rockefeller to saffron and yoghurt tahdig. This is a book to be savoured for its wonderful writing, as well as for its irresistible recipes and expert introduction to patisserie, tooFull of history, anecdotes and, of course, delicious recipes resplendent with butter, it includes:

*Turkish eggs with yoghurt and chill butter
*Butter-basted rib eye steak
*Steamed artichoke with anchovy butter
*Grilled kippers with horseradish butter
*Buttermilk pancakes
*Sticky gingerbread
*French salted butter biscuits
*Brioche feuilletée
*Damson plum crumble

Praise for A Half-Baked Idea by Olivia Potts:
''Uplifting'' Prue Leith
''Wit and warmth on every page'' The Times
''An utterly beautiful, moving, bittersweet bookI loved it'' Dolly Alderton

Format Inbunden Omfång 368 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Headline Publishing Group Utgivningsdatum 2022-09-15 ISBN 9781472284648