Crave: Recipes Arranged by Flavour, to Suit Your Mood and Appetite

"Crave" is a cookbook by Ed Smith that was awarded the Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards 2022. It includes over 100 recipes organized into six flavor profiles, including fresh and fragrant, tart and sour, curried and spiced, rich and savory, and cheesy and creamy. The book offers a fresh take on seasonal cookery, acknowledging core instincts and base itches, and delivering recipes that readers will want to make every day of the week, whatever the weather or mood.

Format: Hardback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 27 May 2021
Publisher: Quadrille Publishing Ltd

WINNER OF THE FORTNUM & MASON FOOD AND DRINK AWARDS 2022




The Guild of Food Writers Awards, Highly Commended in the 'General Cookbook category (2022)


Observer Food Monthly's top 20 food books of 2021


Waterstones' best food and drink books 2021


Longlisted for BBC Radio 4's The Food Programme Cookbooks of the Year 2021


A DELIGHTFULLY INVITING BOOK, CRAMMED WITH RECIPES THAT HAD ME REACHING FOR THE POST-IT NOTES!
- Nigella Lawson




The recipes will dazzle and delight.
- Nigel Slater


Once again, Ed Smith has done something really smart. Cooking the flavors we are craving in any given moment, the resulting book feels so novel and fresh. Ed's writing is thoughtful and conversational; his recipes confident and delicious.
- Yotam Ottolenghi


6 FLAVOUR PROFILES. OVER 100 RECIPES.


Every craving covered.




Why do we choose to cook the things we do, when we do? Most of the time, it is simply so we can eat what we really fancy; a subconscious response to a constantly fluctuating state of mind and appetite that's influenced by mood, season, weather, memory, occasion, outside events, and internal feelings.




Ed Smith helps his readers home in on their cravings (whatever the reason for them) by organizing his recipes within six cleverly conceived flavor profiles: fresh and fragrant chili and heat tart and sour curried and spiced rich and savory; and (best of all?) cheesy and creamy. There's also a directory of alternative cravings at the back, providing additional ways in. All bases are covered, from snacks through sides, to main courses and puddings.




Think of fermented and fresh tomato salad with feta for when both sun and cook are already smiling; or lamb chops with cacio e pepe white beans if in need of a re-set; the likes of nduja spatchcock chicken, should a tic.

Weight: 950g
Dimension: 174 x 253 x 29 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781787135796