"When Diana Henry was sixteen she started a menu notebook (a composition book carefully covered in gift wrap) in which she wrote up the meals she wanted to cook. She kept this book for years. Putting a menu together is still her favorite part of cooking. Menus aren't just groups of dishes that have to work on a practical level (meals that cooks can manage), they also have to work as a succession of flavors. But what is perhaps most special about them...

"An everyday cookbook with 150 recipes that feature simple food enhanced with fresh ingredients"--Provided by publisher.

Chicken is one of the most popular foods - comforting, casual, easy, even celebratory, it's always in the kitchen and on the table. Plundering the globe, there is no shortage of brilliant ways to cook it, whether you need a quick supper after work, something for a lazy summer BBQ or a feast to nourish family and friends. In 'A bird in the hand', Diana Henry offers a host of new, simple and not-so-very-well known dishes starring the bird we all love....

Our attitude towards food is changing. Soon it won't simply be considered sensible to care about how and what we cook and how much we waste, it will be unacceptable not to. Henry shares her philosophy and her recipes for using the earth's bounty in a thoughtful and healthy way.

This comprehensive book takes a fresh look at preserving, offering all the basic information you need. There are sections filled with expert advice on choosing ingredients and cooking every type of preserve, from marmalades to jellies to relishes to foods preserved in oil.