Nights Out At Home
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  • Published: 5 September 2024
  • ISBN: 9780241673454
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $28.00
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Nights Out At Home

Recipes and Stories from 25 years as a restaurant critic

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8 Oct 2024
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5 Sep 2024
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5 Sep 2024
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A memoir-in-recipes inspired by Jay Rayner's quarter of a century at the table, recreating dishes he has loved from high-end restaurants, high street grills, and everything in between

For twenty-five years, award-winning restaurant critic Jay Rayner has been uncovering the very best of the nation's eateries - from high end restaurants to high street grills. Now, in a love letter to his favourite culinary institutions, he recreates the dishes that have stolen his heart over the decades - and helps home chefs do the same.

From a cheat's version of the original Ivy's famed crispy duck salad to a DIY Greggs Steak Bake; from New York delis to Whitechapel curry houses, Nights Out at Home tells the stories of the places and the meals that have shaped Jay's career. With the blessing - and often the help - of the chefs themselves, he unpicks the tastes and techniques behind the recipes, for us to conjure up at home.

Funny, moving and deliciously engaging, Nights Out at Home is a celebration of good food and fantastic writing, which belongs on the bedside table as much as the kitchen table.
  • Published: 5 September 2024
  • ISBN: 9780241673454
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $28.00
Categories:

About the author

Jay Rayner

Jay Rayner is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster who now writes for the Observer. He is the author of two novels, The Marble Kiss and Day of Atonement. He is married and lives in London with his wife and son.

Jay Rayner is an award-winning journalist, author and broadcaster. He is restaurant critic for the Observer and has written a number of books about food, including The Ten Food Commandments and A Greedy Man in a Hungry World. He has also written several novels, including The Apologist and Day of Atonement.

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Praise for Nights Out At Home

Jay has a way with words, but he’s also a dab hand in the kitchen. This book is not just a collection of food memories but also of recipes that make you want to roll up your sleeves and start cooking

Michel Roux

A fantastic collection of heart warming, full-flavoured recipes from one of Britain’s leading food writers. Each recipe is beautifully put together and the stories that go with them are wonderfully written. A must buy for anyone who loves food, restaurants and cooking

Tom Kerridge

I can say without hesitation, having known and eaten with Jay for many many years, that he is the undisputed egalitarian king of finding the most delicious things wherever he goes. He elicits the same amount of delight from great food whether it is on the high road or the high table. This book allows him to share with us the pure joy that he takes in discovery, and of course with Jay as our guide it’s a particularly witty mouth tingling taste adventure! Sheer brilliance.

Andi Oliver

Jay Rayner's love and profound understanding of food has been channelled into a wonderful book of delicious recipes coupled with intelligent, brilliantly funny writing

Stanley Tucci

The perfect book for greedy people

Nigella Lawson

Excellent ... As fun to read as to cook from

The Bookseller, One to Watch

Some recipes are speculative recreations (including of a Greggs steak bake), some assisted by the chefs, some a Frankensteining together of great dishes

FT – Best books of 2024: Food, drink and travel

Nights Out At Home is written with obvious love for the restaurant world and those who inhabit it, and a warm enthusiasm to share that with the reader.This book would make a seriously good cookbook without the stories, and a brilliantly written, engaging read without the recipes; that we get both makes it essential for anyone who’s into the wider pleasures of food.

Delicious Magazine, The 25 best cookbooks of 2024

I love this book ... Couldn’t put it down ... It’s so interesting to read about the origin of our many beloved restaurant dishes and it’s great to have Jay reverse-engineer his favourites for the home cook

Stylist

Rayner is a keen home cook, and here he reverse-engineers the restaurant dishes that have wowed him over the years

Observer Food Monthly, The best food books of 2024
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