All You Can Eat. The Search for a New British Menu
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Chef and food writer Ben Benton is on a mission. British food is usually seen as a dire affair - if people think of it at all, they picture fish and chips, tea and cakes, stiff sandwiches and limp vegetables. But the truth is that British food today is one of the world''s most innovative and diverse cuisines, and Ben Benton is setting out to catalogue the best dishes from across the country - from the Black Isle to the Balti Triangle, Liverpool to Land''s End.Whether sampling seafood on the coast of Northern Ireland or jollof rice in an Essex carpark, join Ben on a journey across Britain like no other. Peckish is a delectable tour celebrating the extraordinary variety of cultures and people in Britain today, a moreish adventure that offers a chef''s perspective on how to find and cook delicious food where you live.
'A celebration of how we eat now, Benton captures a Britain in flux' Matthew Ryle'Ben writes about food in Britain with love, curiosity and joy' Max HalleyIsn't British food meant to be bad?Stiff sandwiches, limp vegetables, dry roasts crying out for gravy. We've come a long way from the bad old days. Modern Britain is a vibrant culinary home to the world's most diverse range of foods, constantly evolving with every restaurant opening and new viral trend - and Ben Benton has been in hot pursuit, eating his way across Britain to discover what our national cuisine really tastes like today. Join the chef and food writer on a hungry odyssey in search of Britain's best (and worst) foods, travelling around the country to meet the chefs, shopkeepers, farmers and producers shaping our tastes with new dishes, fusions and flavours. From trendy bakeries in Manchester to the oyster sheds of Essex and the Balti houses of Birmingham, and from Bradford's mouth-watering masala fish and chips to the Korean hotspots of south-west London, All You Can Eat reveals a nation whose food is far wilder and more delicious than it knows.
