How to Cook without Recipes (New ed)

"How to Cook Without Recipes" is all about setting the home cook free, in order to rediscover the art of cooking.

This wonderful little book will teach you to understand the recipes you follow, why they sometimes go wrong, how to cook independently to make better use of them and how to invent your own.

Glynn Christian begins by taking the reader on a fascinating journey through the history of recipes, and explains how a useful aide memoire became a set of shackles for would be cooks.

He teaches you to understand your palate, how to taste, and to recognise ingredients that complement each other, giving you the tools to create your own recipes. And if you still insist on using your cook books, he explains how to 'read' the recipes of the big names - where you should take notice of them, and where you should do your own thing. "How to Cook Without Recipes" is a cook book, in every sense, with taste.

It is now available in paperback.