Good Tempered Food
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Slow-cooked food and what the author likes to call 'good tempered food', is what proper cooking is all about. In fact, it's the chief pleasure of cooking. It's about re-uniting yourself with a sense of pleasure in the kitchen, rediscovering that 'slow' or 'time-taken' doesn't mean difficult. This is a hugely underrated pleasure in its own right - as can be the planning, shopping, reading of cookery books or recipes online, deliberating, or telephoning a friend for a recipe. Good Tempered Food also shows how to plan in advance and half-prepare a dish a day or even a week before. For example, a dish like risotto can be half-cooked before time, the simplest of meat sauces can be converted from lasagna to cottage pie, hot and cold puddings can be pre-cooked and finished at the last minute. The book is full of dishes that will give you pleasure to cook - roasted baby tomatoes mixed with baby broad beans, a handful of chives, mint, chervil and thyme, some lemon zest and cheese thrown onto some pasta of a fat piece of belly of port idling in the oven for several hours, steeped in molasses, sweet brown sugar and star anise.
Tamasin Day-Lewis is widely regarded as one of the great food writers of our time. Born in London, the daughter of the Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis and actress Jill Balcon, she read English at King's College, Cambridge, and began her career as a documentary director for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4. She has now written twelve cookery books, including Tamasin's Kitchen Bible, Tamasin's Kitchen Classics, Supper for a Song and Food You Can't Say No To. She wrote the Saturday food column for the Daily Telegraph for six years, has made two TV series for UKTV Food and still gives masterclasses all over the world. She appears regularly as a commentator on the radio, contributes regularly to the Daily Telegraph, Vanity Fair, Vogue, The Daily Mail and Food Illustrated