Roast Chicken and Other Stories
- Year
- 1994
- Era
- 20th century
- Origin
- England · Europe
- Language
- English
- Category
- Modern collectables
Roast Chicken and Other Stories, first issued by Ebury Press in 1994, is a collection of essays and recipes organised around individual ingredients, written with Lindsey Bareham. Drawing on Hopkinson's tenure at Bibendum, the work champions unfussy cooking grounded in good produce and classical technique. Widely credited with reshaping late twentieth-century British food writing, it was later voted the most useful cookbook by a poll of chefs and writers.
Cooking from this book
Roast Chicken
Signature dishThe title dish has become inseparable from the book itself, lending its name to the volume and standing as a quiet manifesto for Hopkinson's approach to cooking. His treatment of a simple bird, anointed with butter and seasoned with care, became a touchstone for a generation of cooks who saw in it proof that domestic cookery at its finest needs neither novelty nor flourish, only good ingredients and unwavering attention to detail.
An editorial note on a dish associated with this book, written for The Coquinist. It is not a reproduction of the book's recipe.
