Bee Wilson

A glorious new cookbook from our 'ultimate food scholar' as Yotam Ottolenghi calls her.

Bee Wilson's The Secret of Cooking is packed with solutions for how to make life in the kitchen work better for you, whether you are cooking for yourself or for a crowd.

Do you wish you could cook more, but don’t know where to start? Bee has spent years collecting cooking “secrets”: ways of speeding cooking up or slowing it down, strategies for days when you are stretched for time, and other ideas for when you can luxuriate in kitchen therapy. Bee holds out a hand to anyone who wants doable, delicious recipes, the kind of unfussy food that makes every day taste better: quick feasts from a can of beans; fast, medium, and slow ragus; and seven ways to cook a carrot.

Bee shows you how to get a meal on the table when you're tired and stretched for time, how to season properly, cook onions (or not) and what equipment really helps.

'It's not often that a genuinely game-changing cook book comes out, but this accomplished, approachable and helpful book - its writing as nourishing as the recipes - is most definitely it. Quite frankly, there's not a kitchen that should be without a copy of The Secret of Cooking' Nigella Lawson

'There is wisdom, and notes from a lifetime of reading, thinking, cooking and eating here. And it's not just about food but about how we live, and how we look after ourselves and each other' Diana Henry

'Reading The Secret of Cooking is like sitting in a warm kitchen with an exceptionally articulate friend. I don't need a lot of convincing to pick up a pan, but Wilson's tips are so clever, her recipes so tempting, and her vignettes of family life so candid, that this is a book I can read for pleasure alone' Niki Segnit,The Flavour Thesaurus

'This book is the perfect cooking companion and Bee Wilson is the ultimate kitchen friend: smart, funny, conscientious and patient, this is a book you'll want to spend time with, in and out of the kitchen'

Itamar Srulovich and Sarit Packer, Honey & Co

Bee Wilson is a home cook, journalist and writer, mostly about food. She writes for a wide range of publications including the Guardian, The London Review of Books and The Wall Street Journal. She is the author of six books on food-related subjects and she is the co-founder of the food education charity TastEd. She lives in Cambridge and has three children.