Off Duty the world’s greatest chefs cook at home

HarperCollins Publishers
(www.harpercollins.com)

If I tell you this is a money raising book, will you still keep reading please? 

David Nicholls is one of the world’s finest hotel chefs, currently the Executive Chef of London’s Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park. When his son, Daniel, was left paralysed following a swimming accident during his ‘gap’ year in Australia, David decided to found The Nicholls Spinal Injury Foundation to raise funds to help Daniel and others like him.

Turning to the industry he knows best, Nicholls has compiled a fascinating book packed with insider hints, candid profiles and some superb recipes as well from around fifty of the best chefs worldwide.

In this fascinating book, among other things, Jamie Oliver shares  his crab risotto recipe, Neil Perry admits an occasional yen for a good hamburger, Albert Roux says he doesn’t like pumpkin, and Gordon Ramsay’s warm salad of smoked eel with new potatoes and horseradish cream is sure to create some comment.

It’s the sort of book to keep somewhere between the kitchen and the living room as it will entertain and be useful in both places.

Sales of this book will assist people with spinal injuries – it’s a win-win recipe for success really.