For Simon Hopkinson, a good cook is someone who cares as much about eating as they do about cooking. His new book is a celebration of food, filled with his quiet thoughtful wisdom, in which he shows how the ingredients you choose, and the way you cook them, will turn a good recipe into a great dish; and that a cheap cut of meat cooked with care can taste as nice as a choice cut prepared by indifferent hands. His personal comments, and his many useful hints on technqiues make the book a joy to read, and show why he is known as a cook’s cook.