Cooks & Books: Harrods' Head Pastry Chef Philip Khoury for Beyond Baking: Plant-based Baking for a New Era

Philip Khoury is an award-winning, classically trained pastry chef who spent six years as the Head Pastry Chef at Harrods.

Philip joins us for his new book, Beyond Baking, an exploration of how far baking can go when it's guided by flavour, process, and purpose, rather than tradition alone.

Beyond Baking ups the ante on plant-based baking, with sweet and savoury recipes that use simple, natural, plant-based ingredients.

Tasters can be expected!

These recipes are the result of years of rethinking everything - what gives structure, what builds richness, what creates lift and tenderness - without relying on eggs, dairy, or highly processed alternatives. Instead, they use familiar, natural ingredients to achieve results that feel completely fresh: croissants that shatter, cakes that stay tender for days, savoury pies that could hold their own in any bakery window.

Whether you're just beginning or looking to expand your craft, Beyond Baking invites you to look again at what baking can be when it's not copying what came before, but creating what comes next.