Marcus Wareing - Marcus’ Kitchen: My favourite recipes to inspire your home-cooking

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I am really delighted with this book. It will always be a reminder of a very strange and difficult year. I was delighted to have something positive to focus on, which also gave me the opportunity to work with a wonderful team of people again who made the process so easy.

Firstly, thanks to the book people:

It was great to work with Katya Shipster again, who initiated the discussions with her usual energy (and the quince tree is looking splendid, thank you!). Also Adam Humphrey, a very welcome addition to the team, so positive at all times and really easy to work with. Thanks to rest of the HarperCollins team including Oli, Hattie, Jessie, Tom, Alice and Caroline who put their faith in me before they even see the book.

I have worked with art director James Empringham four times now and each time we drop right into an easy routine. Despite this book having a very different look, it still sits comfortably on the shelf beside my others. Great job, really refreshing!

I am hugely impressed by project editor Sarah Hammond, who calmly and simply guided us through the complex book-writing process, pulling everything together at the right moment. This time she was working with my book novice wife, Jane, as they both tried to encourage information out of a couple of chefs. Never an easy task!

I think the photographs are stunning. Susan Bell is hugely professional and wonderful to have around. Again, nothing was too much effort, even the 5am starts to get the sunrise shots of Melfort. Thanks also to Aloha Shaw, a photographer in her own right and very able assistant to Susan.

Food styling is a slightly misleading term because these dishes really do taste as good as they look in the photo on shoot day. This is down to Becks Wilkinson and her very able assistant Charlotte Whatcott (Jessies inspiration). Becks is always 100 per cent focused on ensuring the dish stays looking good until the best photo has been captured. Thanks also for the wild garlic that is now growing at Melfort.

It is always interesting to watch Susan at work with Tabitha Hawkins, the props stylist. She seems to add things and remove things from the table at just the right moment for the right shot every time.

Thank you to copyeditor Laura Nickoll and the three recipe testers, Pippa Leon, Katy Gilhooly and Emma Marsden. Each recipe has been tested to ensure it works at home, and I have come to learn that recipes written by chefs often have far less detail than is actually needed, so thanks to these guys who add the clarity and ask the right questions.

And to my own team who support me:

Thanks to my agent Richard Thompson at M&C Saatchi Merlin who, along with his expert team, has brought some clarity to my working life. Also Max Dundas, and in particular Ros Clarence-Smith, who handles my media queries perfectly.

Craig Johnston, co-author, joined my team at Marcus following his 2017 win of Masterchef: The Professionals, and he now forms part of the core team. I hope you enjoyed the book process, Craig. Although you are quiet I know you have taken everything in your creative talent is clear to see.

The kitchen garden at Melfort House that you see through the book continues to develop and its mostly down to Anatoliy Onischenko. I have enjoyed being your apprentice in the garden over the last year. I am so excited to see what each season will bring.

Thanks as ever to my family: Archie and Jessie who appear in some of the images and Jake (who is sadly missing from the images as he had got himself a holiday job!); our spaniel, Esme, who appears in the photos because she has a knack of running into shot at just the right moment; and thanks to Jane we have always made a great team.

Last, but never least, thanks to the amazing team at Marcus led by my partners Mark and Shauna Froydenlund and supported by Lise Mabon, Ieva Grigaliunaite and Emily Jacobs, and not forgetting good friend Michael Deschamps. Through their support I know I can step away from the kitchen leaving Restaurant Marcus in their very capable hands.

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Text Marcus Wareing 2021

Photography Susan Bell 2021

Cover design by James Empringham HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2021

Cover photographs Susan Bell 2021

A catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library

Heather Thomas asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

Food styling: Becks Wilkinson

Prop styling: Tabitha Hawkins

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