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Versatile, the potato can be exotic, elegant, plain or traditional. It marries perfectly with any number of herbs and spices, and its nutritional qualities have at last been acknowledged. This book gives recipes from all over the world, versions of all the cooking methods and numerous unexpected variations on the themes. The book features appetizers, soups, salads, lunch, side and dinner dishes, ideas of leftovers, stuffings, sauces, buns, cakes, breads and drinks. This is an anthology ranging from time-honoured and nursery favourites to more esoteric, positively surprising foreign concoctions from such far-flung corners as Lebanon, Tunisia, Thailand and Peru. Some of the recipes come directly from famous recipes, others are adaptations of ones by such masters as Elizabeth David, Jane Grigson and the Roux brothers.

Review: It is a comprehensive collection of receipts for the humble potato, which in today’s economically aware times, is extremely useful to have to hand. It allows one to raise the humble spud from a mere side dish to centre stage, without skipping a beat on taste or nutrition. I have already made one of the recipes (Potato Quiche) and it was truly delicious.

Lindsey Bareham is one of the UK’s most talented cookery writers. Her daily after-work recipe column for the Evening Standard ran for 8 years and she currently writes the much-loved ‘Dinner Tonight’ column for The Times. The author of 13 cookery books, including In Praise of the Potato, A Celebration of Soup, The Big Red Book of Tomatoes, The Fish Store and The Trifle Bowl and Other Tales, Lindsey also co-wrote The Prawn Cocktail Years with Simon Hopkinson, and helped him write Roast Chicken and Other Stories, voted the Most Useful Cookery Book Ever by chefs and food writers.

NOTE: This is an original book from the library gathered by the famous Cambridge Don, computer scientist, food and wine connoisseur, Jack Arnold LANG. Note: Jack founded the Michelin Guide ‘Midsummer House’- Cambridge’s paramount restaurant. This dining experience is hidden amongst the grassy pastures and grazing cattle of Midsummer Common and perched on the banks of the River Cam. The Midsummer House experience is imaginatively curated to delight and amaze, so the surprise set menu changes regularly and is ‘Midsummer’s’ playground to showcase.

In 2008, Jack was one of the co-founders of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, alongside other members of the Department, and acted as the Foundation’s Chair. The project’s original goals were modest: to build and distribute low-cost computers for prospective applicants to our Computer Science degree. Initially the project was a “success disaster”, as Jack would say, as demand far outstripped the low-scale manufacturing plans. Ultimately the Raspberry Pi became the UK’s most successful computer with more than 60 million sold to date. Jack was drawn to the educational possibilities of the Raspberry Pi, its potential uses in emerging economies and the way it could support self-directed learning.