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Finding Fire

Cooking at its most elemental
By Lennox Hastie
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Finding Fire by Lennox Hastie is a masterclass in cooking with fire, drawing on his experience at Sydney's acclaimed Firedoor restaurant. This book offers over 90 recipes spanning seafood, vegetables, fruit, dairy, and wheat, all designed to help readers explore the elemental simplicity and rich flavours that come from cooking over natural wood fires. Lennox also shares techniques for building quality fires and selecting wood to enhance taste, intertwined with his personal narrative and the cultural significance of fire in global cooking traditions.
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This book is ideal for cooking enthusiasts and professionals keen to deepen their understanding of fire as a fundamental cooking method, as well as anyone inspired by cultural culinary techniques and seeking to enhance flavour through natural cooking processes.

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A true masterclass that will change the way people understand cooking with fire

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Finding Fire is an introduction to the endless possibilities of cooking beautiful food with fire.

Author Lennox Hastie, of acclaimed Sydney restaurant Firedoor, presents over 90 recipes that allow readers to take their own journey to master the art of simplicity in cookery over the most natural heat source on the planet.

Lennox explains the techniques behind creating a good quality fire, and the effect of using different types of wood to enhance the natural flavours of the ingredients. Recipes are divided by food type: seafood, vegetables, fruit, dairy, wheat, and bases.

Lennox Hastie’s own inspirational story is woven through the history in the book, as he draws on his own international experience to demonstrate how fire is used in so many different cultures.

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Praised for its inspirational and practical approach, Finding Fire has been called "manly, inspirational stuff" by John Lethlean of The Weekend Australian Magazine. Brian McGinn of Chef's Table highlights Lennox's passion and the unique, delicious recipes for fire cooking. Culinary icons like Massimo Bottura and David Chang commend the transformative power of cooking with fire that Lennox showcases, from making vegetables and seafood divine to serving extraordinary steaks.

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Book Details

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ISBN: 9781743797327

Publisher: Hardie Grant Books

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 30 November 2020

Country: Australia

Imprint: Hardie Grant Books

Illustration: Full colour throughout

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 27.0mm

Width: 200.0mm

Height: 280.0mm

Weight: 1274g

Pages: 256

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About the Author

Lennox Hastie is a UK-born, Europe-trained chef with an Australian father and Scottish mother. He spent time in Melbourne as a boy, but only returned to Australia to open Firedoor with the Fink Group in Sydney's Surry Hills in 2015, which was nominated for Best New Restaurant in the 2016 Australian Gourmet Traveller Awards, currently holds a chef hat in the Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide and sits at number 17 on the Australian Gourmet Traveller Top 100 Restaurants list. He first fell in love with fire at Extebarri, in Spain. During his stay there, the restaurant earned its first Michelin star.

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