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Highlights
- 'A very special book' DIANA HENRY.
- About the Author: Kate Young is an award-winning food writer and cook.
- 336 Pages
- Cooking + Food + Wine, Seasonal
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About the Book
Kate Young returns with a book about eating and reading through the seasons.
Book Synopsis
'A very special book' DIANA HENRY.
'Perfect' NINA STIBBE. The Little Library Year takes you through a full twelve months in award-winning food writer Kate Young's kitchen. Here are frugal January meals enjoyed alone with a classic comfort read, as well as summer feasts to be eaten outdoors with the perfect beach read to hand. Beautifully photographed throughout, The Little Library Year is full of delicious seasonal recipes, menus and reading recommendations. 'A wonderful, brilliant book' RUBY TANDOH. 'The best present a food-obsessed bookworm could ask for' OLIA HERCULES. 'Tender, gorgeous, clever and generous' ELLA RISBRIDGER. 'Bibliophile foodies have a treat in store for them. Many treats, in fact' JASPER FFORDE.Review Quotes
"Recipes you long to cook, suggestions for books you want to read, a sense of place and season, and tales of a life lived thoughtfully and well. This is a very special book, written with great generosity. I loved it" --Diana Henry
"A cookbook and culinary almanac that celebrates the books and characters conjured by each season and its food. Leafing through a cookery book has never been so satisfying. Perfect" --Nina Stibbe "A wonderful, brilliant book. Instantly comforting, effortlessly beautiful and suffused with the generosity that's at the heart of any good meal" --Ruby Tandoh "Bibliophile foodies have a treat in store for them. Many treats, in fact" --Jasper Fforde "Combines two of my most favourite things - interesting and flavour-packed recipes, and reading lists. The best present a food-obsessed bookworm could ask for" --Olia Hercules "Tender, gorgeous, clever and generous... A book to be both treasured and treated as the hands-on, practical food bible it really is. As perfectly balanced as her recipes - with photographs like Vermeer paintings, stories the never overwhelm the food itself, and lovely, lyrical writing - I want to eat everything Kate cooks, and I want to cook everything she writes, and I want to buy this book for everyone I love. I loved it'" --Ella Risbridger "I love this so much. It's so cheering in an I Capture the Castle way of not being able to be depressed when there is a good egg tea inside you. I love Kate Young's writing and the way she weaves herself, the books, and the food together. What a treat" --Cathy Retzenbrink "Kate's writing is as delicious and vibrant as her recipes. Her passion for food, for books, and for seasonal home cooking is completely infectious. This book sings with love, with flavour, with invention: I want to cook everything in it" --Olivia Potts "Makes me want to read, cook and eat in equal measure" --Sue Quinn. "A deeply personal book written in a sincere voice; reading it is like talking to your best and greediest book-loving friend" --Daily Telegraph. "[An] engaging cookbook... Young's culinary almanac is sure to inspire an appetite for reading as well as cooking'" --Town & Country UK "This is the book to curl up with on Christmas Day. It's a big cosy hug of a read, written with such love and care... Kate's recipes and suggestions for timely books to read as you cook and then eat are seamlessly blended'" --Haverhill Echo "Bookworm Kate Young has penned the perfect gift for foodie friends who revel in the meal descriptions in their favourite novels'" --Sainsbury's Magazine "What to eat when, and with what perfect read in your hand, need never be a cause for concern again thanks to Kate Young's latest cookbook. She considers the art of eating, imagination and literature in the most hunger-inducing ways" --Dorset Echo "A beautifully presented, written and illustrated book, which gives real insight into the author and her love of the English seasons, and should inspire anybody to both cook and read more" --CrumbsAbout the Author
Kate Young is an award-winning food writer and cook. As a dedicated bookworm, Kate's reading inspires her in the kitchen. After mastering the treacle tart from Harry Potter, Kate started blogging about her creations and was named Blogger of the Year in 2017 by the Guild of Food Writers. Her first book, The Little Library Cookbook, was shortlisted for Fortnum & Mason's debut food book award and won a World Gourmand food writing award. Kate has written for the Guardian, Sainsbury's Magazine and The Pool. Originally from Australia, Kate now lives in the English countryside.
Kate Young is an award-winning food writer and cook. As a dedicated bookworm, Kate's reading inspires her in the kitchen. After mastering the treacle tart from Harry Potter, Kate started blogging about her creations and was named Blogger of the Year in 2017 by the Guild of Food Writers. Her first book, The Little Library Cookbook, was shortlisted for Fortnum & Mason's debut food book award and won a World Gourmand food writing award. Kate has written for the Guardian, Sainsbury's Magazine and The Pool. Originally from Australia, Kate now lives in the English countryside.
