The River Cafe Look Book: Recipes for Kids of all Ages

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If I have one piece of advice for anyone setting up on their own,” she says, “it is just: start small. She eventually relented, and that pair of images is undeniably effective, heightening the tactile stimulation of each: a glossy head of dark, reddish hair, ridged with comb marks, opposite a plate of nubbly, cocoa-dusted chocolate truffles. Each pair features one of the fifty recipes in the book, accompanied by non-food image, which reflects the recipe photo in some way, making you think about the colours and textures of the food. What was so interesting was that everybody read them as different things… one photograph could somehow pique interest in the other photograph… the correlation and juxtaposition of the pictures. Immediately put the potatoes through a Mouli grater (food mill) or potato ricer onto a clean work counter.

In those three years, he read a lot, and someone—my daughter-in-law, actually—sent us these books developed by a neurologist, an artist, and a photographer in Holland for people with autism and dementia. It may be ‘accessible to children’ with ‘lots of pictures at the front, but that’s just a way of holding people… We’re making it entertaining to make sure people stay… keeping someone’s interest, to get them to the main event at the back. Please note: some countries have restrictions and we cannot guarantee all products can be shipped internationally. We didn’t take them to fit,’ stresses Ruthie, ‘we went through this incredible archive… Every photograph was taken by Matthew, I really say that this is Matthew’s book. Add the fusilli to the pan and cook according to the packet (package) instructions, until cooked but still firm (al dente).Gray was a British chef, who co-founded this West London restaurant with American-born chef Ruth Rogers, wife of the Italian-born British architect Richard Rogers, in 1987. But [the photographer] Matthew Donaldson and I thought perhaps you could do a book that works for 12 year olds and 82 year olds. Rogers’s own second-generation American parents had roots in Russia and Hungary; food was always an occasion for conversation. Co-head chefs Sian Wyn Owen and Joseph Trivelli have each worked at London's River Cafe for over 20 years.

She stresses that ‘it is written by chefs: from chefs to young chefs, so there is a kind of meaning there… We could serve every single one of these recipes in the restaurant and be proud. David Beckham made me tagliatelle with mushrooms; he learned to cook well when he was playing in Milan. The 50 recipes – spanning antipasti; pasta, risotto and gnocchi; soup; vegetables; fish; meat; and dolci – were carefully reworked to make them as accessible as possible. The New York Times The first cookbook from London's iconic River Cafe written with beginner cooks and children in mind - a collection of more than 50 delicious and easily achievable recipes, including a host of River Cafe classics that have been specially adapted for new cooks This highly anticipated cookbook is more accessible than any other to have come from the kitchen of Ruth Rogers' legendary Michelin-star restaurant The River Cafe, set on the banks of the Thames in London.There is a lovely sort of defiance in the Pantone pages of the book, I think, a rage against the dying of colour.