Cloake - Perfect too : 92 more essential recipes for every cooks repertoire

Felicity Cloake is a journalist and food writer from London. Shes food columnist for the New Statesman, and she writes the weekly columns How to Make the Perfect and Readers Recipe Swap inthe Guardian. She also writes, on occasion, for delicious magazine, the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph. She was named Food Journalist of the Year and won the New Media of the Year Award at the 2011 Guild of Food Writers Awards. She is the author ofPerfect and Perfect Host.

Much gratitude is due to everyone at the Guardian for their support, but in particular to my editor Susan Smillie, without whom there would be no Perfect. No one else could make me see the vaguely funny side of all thiswashing up.

Enormous thanks also to Juliet Annan and Sophie Missing at Fig Tree for their enthusiasm, for producing such a beautiful book, and for laughing at most of my jokes, to Gill Heeley for the excellent illustrations, and to Annie Lee for savingme from myself on numerous occasions, again.

Im truly grateful to Sarah Ballard and Zoe Ross at United Agents for all their advice, encouragement and support over the last twelve months and especially for their kind patience.

This book has been a good three years in the making; thank you to all my recipe testers and long-suffering housemates over that time: Anna and Jot; Alex, James, Lucinda and Kelda; my family (always to be relied upon to give an honest verdict onjam doughnuts); and, latterly, Richard and the ever-discerning Wilf the dog. You can have whatever you want for dinner darling, as long as its dal.

Most of all, thank you to all the Guardian readers whose thoughts, advice, and occasionally constructive criticism, make the column what it is. This book wouldnt have happened without you.

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