Venice

Gorgeous * Daily Mail on POLPO * Delicious * Mail on Sunday on POLPO * A present for the greedy gourmets in your life * Observer on POLPO * POLPO does what a great cookbook should do: it makes you urgently want to cook and breaks new territory * Daily Telegraph on POLPO * Wonderful… the dishes are simple but inspired * Evening Standard on POLPO * Offers a rare insight into the beating heart of the city * i * Russell Norman is among the brightest stars of the British food scene … In Venice, he returns to the recipes of that most inspirational Italian city * Esquire *

Russell Norman is an award-winning restaurateur, writer and broadcaster, and the founder of the POLPO restaurant group. Norman’s book POLPO - A Venetian Cookbook (of Sorts) was published by Bloomsbury and won Waterstones Book of the Year 2012. In 2014 he presented The Restaurant Man, a six-part prime-time documentary for BBC2, and his second book SPUNTINO - Comfort Food (New York Style) won the 2016 Guild of Food Writers Award for best food and travel book. He is a contributing editor for Esquire magazine and writes a monthly column as ‘The Accidental Cook’.