Pasta cooked this way, swimming in a sauce of cream, juicy almost-sugar-sweet peas and freshly ground black pepper, is one of my strongest happy memories from childhood. And of all the friends I have made over the years, of all the relationships that I treasure and that make my life what it is, so many of those have come about over lunch, over dinner, or – best of all – over the kind of really good meal that starts off as lunch, lingers on through tea and morphs happily into supper. The act of making a plate of food for someone can reap real rewards: appreciation, friendship, sometimes admiration and even – on occasion – infatuation and love. My hope in writing this book is to prompt you to want to cook more often, especially for people you care about. Too easily and too often we find ourselves dreading having to make dinner, rather than looking forward to eating it. Life is busy and rushed, and cooking can often feel like something we have to do. But at times, it can be nice to have the excuse to use my hands and switch off from the world around me. I loathe chopping, for example, and I’m hopeless at it I don’t much like peeling either, and I definitely don’t enjoy washing up. But not everyone loves cooking and certainly, there are aspects of the process that even I’m not too fond of. For me, it’s something that has been an immense source of comfort and pleasure over the years. It’s just something we do, with little thought as to why, though often with much thought as to the what and the how. You’ll find recipes to comfort, seduce, nourish and spoil your loved ones, as well as yourself, and recipes to weave joy into every day.
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However, the emphasis here is on why we cook as much as it is on how to do it. Every cookbook is fundamentally a manual – a ‘how-to’ intended to help you with the practical business of cooking, and this book is no exception.
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