Lateral Cooking: Foreword by Yotam Ottolenghi

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This is not a recipe book as such (although it does contain recipes) and is organised in a very particular way. Much as she enjoys haute cuisine, she’s not likely to reproduce it at home, preferring to experiment with recipes from domestic kitchens abroad.

Lateral Cooking is essentially a practical book, but like The Flavour Thesaurus it’s also a highly enjoyable read. My new favourite and I would recommend it to anyone who is comfortable enough cooking to break away from the traditional recipe layout and bend the rules. Lateral Cooking is organised into 77 'starting-point' recipes, including plenty of tips for substituting ingredients and reducing the phenomenal variety of world cuisine down to its bare essentials - and then building it back up again.Op een vermakelijke manier laat Segnit je zien hoe gerechten ‘werken’ en hoe je zelf kunt gaan experimenteren, bedenken en ontdekken. So, for example, in the potato gnocchi entry Segnit tells you about the flour potato weight and add flour in patient increments but there is no explicit recipe.

Riding on a wave of cookbooks the last decade oriented more towards process, Segnit follows up on her already mind-blowing Flavor Thesaurus with this cornucopia of dishes. This may result in small marks to the dustjacket and title page, please also bear in mind that each signature will be a little different from the one we show here. I was surprised when I found that pan de muerto and conchas, a traditional mexican bread, is an orange scented brioche!The three spot colours used throughout function like a key, and a clear visual hierarchy helps differentiate between Segnit’s prose, recipe instructions, helpful postscripts and flavour suggestions. Entertaining, opinionated, and inspirational, with a handsome three-color design, Lateral Cooking will have you torn between donning your apron and settling back in a comfortable chair. Most of the times, you miss one ingredients and need to replace it with something, you are short on time and need to cut a corner etc.