Nights Out At Home
Recipes and Stories from 25 years as a Restaurant Critic
$44.60
- Hardcover
384 pages
- Release Date
8 October 2024
Summary
A memoir-in-recipes inspired by Jay Rayner’s quarter of a century at the table, recreating dishes he has loved from high-end restaurants, high street grills, and everything in between.
“For the past twenty-five years, I have been reviewing restaurants across Britain and beyond, from the humblest of diners to the grandest of gastro-palaces. And throughout I’ve been taking the best ideas home with me to create glorious dishes for my own table. Now I get to share those recipes with you.”…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241639580 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241639581 |
| Author: | Jay Rayner |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Fig Tree |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 8 October 2024 |
| Weight: | 622g |
| Dimensions: | 241mm x 160mm x 33mm |
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Critics Review
Jay has a way with words, but he’s also a dab hand in the kitchen. This book is not just a collection of food memories but also of recipes that make you want to roll up your sleeves and start cooking * Michel Roux *A fantastic collection of heart warming, full-flavoured recipes from one of Britain’s leading food writers. Each recipe is beautifully put together and the stories that go with them are wonderfully written. A must buy for anyone who loves food, restaurants and cooking * Tom Kerridge *
I can say without hesitation, having known and eaten with Jay for many many years, that he is the undisputed egalitarian king of finding the most delicious things wherever he goes. He elicits the same amount of delight from great food whether it is on the high road or the high table.This book allows him to share with us the pure joy that he takes in discovery, and of course with Jay as our guide it’s a particularly witty mouth tingling taste adventure! Sheer brilliance.
* Andi Oliver *Jay Rayner’s love and profound understanding of food has been channelled into a wonderful book of delicious recipes coupled with intelligent, brilliantly funny writing * Stanley Tucci *The perfect book for greedy people * Nigella Lawson *Excellent … As fun to read as to cook from * The Bookseller, One to Watch *Some recipes are speculative recreations (including of a Greggs steak bake), some assisted by the chefs, some a Frankensteining together of great dishes * FT – Best books of 2024: Food, drink and travel *Nights Out At Home is written with obvious love for the restaurant world and those who inhabit it, and a warm enthusiasm to share that with the reader.This book would make a seriously good cookbook without the stories, and a brilliantly written, engaging read without the recipes; that we get both makes it essential for anyone who’s into the wider pleasures of food. * Delicious Magazine, The 25 best cookbooks of 2024 *I love this book … Couldn’t put it down … It’s so interesting to read about the origin of our many beloved restaurant dishes and it’s great to have Jay reverse-engineer his favourites for the home cook * Stylist *Rayner is a keen home cook, and here he reverse-engineers the restaurant dishes that have wowed him over the years * Observer Food Monthly, The best food books of 2024 *About The Author
Jay Rayner
Jay Rayner is an award-winning writer, musician, journalist and broadcaster. He has written on everything from crime and politics, through cinema and theatre to the visual arts, but is best known as restaurant critic, a job he did for the Observer from 1999 until 2025, and which he now continues for the Financial Times. As well as being a former Young Journalist of the Year and Restaurant Critic of the Year, in 2023 and again in 2025 he was named Critic of the Year in the UK Press Awards. He has published four novels and eight works of non-fiction, the most recent of which is Nights Out At Home, his first cookbook marking his 25 years as a restaurant critic which was a Sunday Times bestseller. He chairs BBC Radio 4’s The Kitchen Cabinet, and is a regular on British television, where he is familiar as a judge on MasterChef. Jay regularly performs live, both in his one man shows and as the pianist in his jazz sextet.
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