-I adore Meades-s book . . . I want more of his rule-breaking irreverence in my kitchen- New York Times
-The Plagiarist in the Kitchen is hilariously grumpy, muttering at us -Don-t you bastards know anything?- You can read it purely for literary pleasure, but Jonathan Meades makes everything sound so delicious that the non-cook will be moved to cook and the bad cook will cook better- David Hare, Guardian
The Plagiarist in the Kitchen is an anti-cookbook. Best known as a provocative novelist, journalist and film-maker, Jonathan Meades has also been called -the best amateur chef in the world- by Marco Pierre White. His contention here is that anyone who claims to have invented a dish is delusional, dishonestly contributing to the myth of culinary originality.
Meades delivers a polemical but highly usable collection of 125 of his favourite recipes, each one an example of the fine art of culinary plagiarism. These are dishes a
