Root

Name: Root
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9781472976468
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Small vegetable plates, a little meat on the side

By Rob Howell

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Summary

In Root by Rob Howell, the author explores the potential of cooking with often-overlooked parts of vegetables, offering creative recipes that focus on reducing waste and maximising flavour. This cookbook is filled with inventive ideas that inspire readers to appreciate the entire plant and enjoy sustainable, delicious meals.
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Format: Hardback

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You might enjoy this book if you're passionate about sustainable cooking and exploring innovative plant-based dishes inspired by a chef's journey. It offers creative recipes that focus on using ingredients in inventive ways, making it perfect for experimental home cooks and food enthusiasts who love discovering new culinary traditions.

Root

With an ethos focusing on sustainability, Root plays with convention and puts vegetables at the heart of its small plates menu

With an ethos focusing on sustainability, Root plays with convention and puts vegetables at the heart of its small plates menu

Description

Root offers a delightful collection of vegetable small plates that form the core of this mouth-watering debut book by Rob Howell. With a commitment to sustainability and using only the finest ingredients, Rob presents over 100 recipes from the award-winning Bristol waterfront restaurant. These recipes encourage you to mix and match at home, creating indulgent feasts for family and friends—or even just for yourself!

While vegetables take centre stage, the book also includes a variety of meat and fish recipes to satisfy even the hungriest of carnivores, along with unmissable desserts. There is truly something for everyone within these pages. Featured recipes include:

Welsh rarebit toasts
Buttermilk fried celeriac
Cauliflower bhajis with cashew butter and pickled orange
Tempura spring onions with sweet chilli sauce and peanut crumb
Chicken schnitzel with sauerkraut
Spiced monkfish tail with 3 sauces
Doughnuts with carrot jam
Sherry panna cotta

Each dish is accompanied by stunning photography, making this a cookbook to devour immediately and return to repeatedly for culinary inspiration.

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Root by Rob Howell celebrates vegetables as the main attraction rather than just a side dish, with beautifully crafted recipes that include a chef's touch for home cooks. Critics praise its balance of seasonal plants with selective meat and fish options, and agree on its delightful, imaginative recipes that elevate humble greens. This book reflects modern British cooking and highlights the unifying power of good food.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781472976468

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 18 March 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Absolute

Illustration: Full colour photography throughout

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 192.0mm

Height: 250.0mm

Weight: 1049g

Pages: 288

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Cook Books & Recipes Cooking & Food Non-Fiction Rob Howell Vegetarian Cook Books

About the Author

Rob Howell is the head chef at Root, a veg-centric restaurant housed in two shipping containers which opened in Bristol’s Wapping Wharf in 2017. Rob was previously head chef at Josh Eggleton’s award-winning pub, The Pony & Trap, winning a Michelin star in 2011. Previously he worked at Ondine in Edinburgh and Goodfellows in Wells, as well as completing stages at Studio in Copenhagen, Elystan Street in London under Phil Howard and at Restaurant Nathan Outlaw in Port Isaac.
In the 2018 Restaurant Magazine Restaurant Awards, Root burst onto the scene at number 57 in the listing of the best restaurants in the UK.

@RootBristol / @robjhowell