The Cookbook Circle

Our first American chef, our first Asian cookbook, our longest episode yet: we have a lot to say about David Chang's first cookbook, Momofuku. Part memoir, part cookbook, this one is not just an insight into complex Asian cooking but David Chang as a personality and kitchen culture on the whole, so we're talking as much about the chef as we are the recipes! Find out what led Hannah to consider the...

This time around, we’re discussing the classic cookbook, Roast Chicken and Other Stories by “the food writer’s food writer” Simon Hopkinson. Find out what we cooked, which dish failed miserably under the influence of wine, Victoria’s adventures with body cheese and whether we think this is worthy of its place as one of the top books on our master list. Do you have a copy of this on your bookshelf?...

We're back and cooking our way through Yotam Ottolenghi 's Plenty , a book that lives up to its name - plenty of colour, plenty of flavour and plenty to talk about. Join us to hear what we cooked, if we managed to find all of the ingredients and how Plenty fares against The Cookbook Circle rating! Let us know how you feel about Plenty, or get in touch with us about anything cookbook or food relate...

Join us to discover (or rediscover) Nigella's classic, How to Eat . We've read, cooked and eaten lots of the book’s recipes and we'll give you our honest opinion of whether this book deserves to be on all those ‘best of’ lists, introducing you to our very sophisticated Cookbook Circle rating system. Let us know if it’s one of your favourites, and see what we cooked @cookbookcircle on Twitter and I...

We're looking forward to dusting off our cookbook shelf and rediscovering all those cookbooks that you've probably forgotten about. Subscribe to get each episode as soon as it comes out! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.