

The book is divided into twelve chapters, each covering a basic culinary category, such as "Bread," "Stock, Soup & Stew," or "Sauce." The recipes in each chapter are arranged on a continuum, passing from one to another with just a tweak or two to the method or ingredients. Lateral Cooking offers these formulas, which, once readers are familiar with them, will prove infinitely adaptable. But as she tested the combinations that informed The Flavor Thesaurus, she detected the basic rubrics that underpinned most recipes. Niki Segnit used to follow recipes to the letter, even when she'd made a dish a dozen times.


A groundbreaking handbook-the "method" companion to its critically acclaimed predecessor, The Flavor Thesaurus- with a foreword by Yotam Ottolenghi.
