{"product_id":"a-cooks-book-the-essential-nigel-slater-von-nigel-slater","title":"A Cook's Book","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBreaking bread\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'It started with a baguette. That first loaf, bought at dawn from a boulangerie on my way home after a night out in Paris, still warm, its crust crackling. The floury, craggy point of the bread - more crust than crumb, more air than loaf -wrenched off as I walked, and eaten (sans beurre, sans confiture, sans jambon) in the street will never leave me.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo, back to simple\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Dinner is rarely more than a single dish in this house. A bowl of chilli and greens; plump, garlicky beans slowly cooked in the oven, a boned chicken leg on the grill brushed with thyme and lemon. Sometimes we feast: a vast dish of pasta with mussels and prawns; a steaming pie of sweet potatoes and lentils; baked fatty pork with butter beans and broth. Even then, this is straightforward eating. The nearest you will get to a 'starter' is a bowl of olives.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFour chocolate cakes\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'One afternoon, late in 2017, I made what was to become my favourite chocolate cake of all. Shallow, fudge-like and spiked with sherry-soaked golden sultanas and shards of chocolate, its surface gritty with caster sugar scented with rosemary. A cake for an autumn afternoon, perhaps with coffee or smoky roasted tea. A fire, several gardens away, had sent a long, lazy curl of smoke into the darkening sky. My fancy turned to the thought of dabbing sweet crumbs, roasted nuts and dark chocolate from a plate with my finger and thumb.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9780008213763\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe Essential Nigel Slater\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover - 9780008213763","offer_id":39282483560541,"sku":"9780008213763","price":38.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/3ab890c1-95ab-48cb-a42f-49d41f9bf41c.jpg?v=1780718423","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/a-cooks-book-the-essential-nigel-slater-von-nigel-slater","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}