STEPHEN HARRIS

Named UK''s best restaurant in the Estrella Damm National Restaurant Awards in 2016 and 2017.For home cooks, Stephen Harris, the chef at the UK''s #1 restaurant, The Sportsman, shares the age-old and modern techniques to perfect 50 British classics.From all appearances, The Sportsman, in Whitstable, Kent, is a standard English seaside pub. Following years of hard work, Stephen Harris has transformed this bucolic locale into an internationally acclaimed restaurant serving innovative regional cuisine that has earned it the top spot in Britain - and a cult following around the world. The simple, stylish recipes in Harris''s debut cookbook epitomize all that''s great about British cooking, and showcase his pared-back style, while his personal writings and memorabilia provide rare insight into an extraordinary life.

In The Sportsman at Home Stephen Harris welcomes us into his kitchen in Whitstable to discover his favourite ingredients and show us how to apply the simple ethos of his iconic restaurant to home cooking The Sportsman is nothing short of an institution Now in its 25th year Stephen Harris took over a rundown pub on the Kent coast in 1999 and turned something ordinary into something extraordinary with his pared back style of cooking earning and retaining a Michelin star as well as being named the UK s best restaurant multiple times It s a cult classic both adored by professionals from all over the world and a truly beloved unpretentious local Organised into chapters by occasion Baking and Making Posh Dinners Not So Posh Dinners and Christmas to name a few Stephen captures the imagination for simple cooking with his love of seasonal local produce and scholarly much lauded approach to putting flavour first in the easiest most effective ways With dishes such as Welsh rarebit cream of tomato soup pork chop with charred leeks and tart tatin with vanilla ice cream Stephen reintroduces familiar favourites made simpler and much better With stunning location photography of the Kent landscape that serves as Stephen s inspiration as well as essays on

Nos proporcionan los alimentos que comemos, los medicamentos que tomamos, el combustible que usamos y, por supuesto, el oxígeno que respiramos. Las plantas han sido indispensables para los seres humanos durante milenios, y han tenido un impacto profundo y, a menudo, inesperado en nuestra vida cotidiana.Este libro nos cuenta anecdotas y datos interesantes acerca del efecto profundo que tienen en nuestras vidas y reivindica su importancia en plena era de manifestaciones y urgencia ante el cambio climatico.En Plantas Legendarias el Dr. Stephen Harris, Curador Druce del Herbario de la Universidad de Oxford nos lleva de viaje por la civilizacion occidental, a traves de la historia de 50 plantas esenciales, desde el arroz, la zanahoria y el algodon hasta el cannabis, el caucho y la rosa.