Second Helpings of Roast Chicken

In this follow-up to the smash sensation Roast Chicken and Other Stories, Simon Hopkinson re-creates his winning formula by taking forty-seven completely new favorite ingredients — from apples to cocoa, lobster to truffles, and fennel to mint — and presenting an exotic array of tastes and ingredients from all over the world. His recipes, which have in common the love of good food prepared to please rather than simply impress, are drawn not only from classic French and British cooking but also from around the globe, from Austria to Thailand and India to Spain.

This exquisite compilation of recipes includes:

• Yorkshire Pudding with Sweet White Sauce and Golden Syrup
• Piedmontese Potato Gnocchi with Parmesan Cream
• Thai Pork Rissoles with Sweet and Sour Dipping Sauce
• Creamed Scampi with Saffron Pilaf
• And a new spin on his classic Roast Chicken recipe...

Second Helpings of Roast Chicken is sure to please anyone seeking new and inspiring recipes in addition to more of Hopkinson's classic musings on food, which his fans have grown to adore.

"Simon Hopkinson's passionate intensity in the kitchen continues at his writing table. He explains as well as anyone alive why good food matters so much, both for our individual happiness and for our global survival." Alice Waters

Simon Hopkinson takes 47 of his favorite ingredients as a starting point for these useful and tasty recipes. There is a section on apples with a perfect apple tart, a section on curry with Constance Spry's original Coronation Chicken Salad Dressing, and a section on duck with Braised Duck with Peas and the classic Roast Duck and Apple Sauce. There are also recipes for Pear and Ginger Sponge, Waldorf Salad, Armenian Lamb Pilaf, Baked Whole Plaice with Lemon Butter Sauce, and what is, quite simply, the best Bloody Mary. Roast Chicken and Other Stories won the 1994 Andre Simon and 1995 Glenfiddich awards, the gastronomic world's equivalent to an Oscar. This sequel will provide new inspiration the many fans of Simon Hopkinson's sensible, practical, creative approach to cooking and love of good food, prepared to please rather than simply impress.

Hopkinson takes 47 of his favorite ingredients as a starting point for these useful and tasty recipes. This sequel will provide new inspiration for the many fans of his sensible, practical, creative approach to cooking and love of good food prepared to please rather than simply impress.

In this follow-up to the smash sensation Roast Chicken and Other Stories, Simon Hopkinson re-creates his winning formula by taking forty-seven completely new favorite ingredients--from apples to cocoa, lobster to truffles, and fennel to mint--and presenting an exotic array of tastes and ingredients from all over the world. His recipes, which have in common the love of good food prepared to please rather than simply impress, are drawn not only from classic French and British cooking but also from around the globe, from Austria to Thailand and India to Spain.

This exquisite compilation of recipes includes: Yorkshire Pudding with Sweet White Sauce and Golden SyrupPiedmontese Potato Gnocchi with Parmesan CreamThai Pork Rissoles with Sweet and Sour Dipping SauceCreamed Scampi with Saffron PilafAnd a new spin on his classic Roast Chicken recipe . . .Second Helpings of Roast Chicken is sure to please anyone seeking new and inspiring recipes in addition to more of Hopkinson's classic musings on food, which his fans have grown to adore.

Praise for Roast Chicken and Other Stories:

"Simon Hopkinson's Roast Chicken and Other Stories is a mouthwatering pleasure to read as well as to use. He's not only a great cook, he's also a great writer and the heir to Elizabeth David's legacy."

--Jay McInerney

"Among the most endearing and common-sensical kitchen primers ever composed. . . . You could cook from this volume, and this volume alone, for several years without boredom or mishap."

--Dwight Garner, New York Times Book Review

"Hopkinson is ravenous for wonderful food, and his appetite has produced a delicious, passionate book."

--O, The Oprah Magazine

"Roast Chicken" is one of those rare cookbooks that, once opened, becomes indispensable. . . . This is simple cooking at its best."

--Aleksandra Crapanzano, New York Times Magazine

"Simon Hopkinson has long been an outstanding chef, a passionate lover of good food, and has now emerged as a very endearing and talented food writer."

--Delia Smith

Simon Hopkinson is a critically acclaimed food writer who rose to prominence as a young chef with the opening of Bibendum restaurant in London. He also wrote an award-winning column for The Independent for more than eight years. In 2007, his first book, Roast Chicken and Other Stories, became an overnight sensation in the United States. He lives in London.