The Cornershop Cookbook
  • Published: 1 September 2015
  • ISBN: 9780224101042
  • Imprint: Square Peg
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $45.00
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The Cornershop Cookbook

Delicious Recipes from your local shop

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Based on simple, local, quick ingredients you can buy at any cornershop, this is how we really shop and cook


Looking for quick healthy meal ideas using ingredients from your local shop? The Cornershop Cookbook has the answers!

From yam to Spam and greens to sardines, these mouthwatering recipes reveal the wealth of culinary creativity to be unlocked in your local shop. There are dead simple recipes for a quiet night in like Linguine with Tinned Crab; vibrant alternative takeaway offerings like Twice-Cooked Aubergine with Vietnamese Sauce; solutions for weeknights, from simple Smoked Salmon Baked Eggs to the larger-scale Fish Finger Tacos; there is comfort food, from nourishing Thyme, Chorizo and Leek Broth to a down-and-dirty Meatball Sub; and finally there are sweet treats like Frostie Florentines.


Using easily available ingredients, this book will inspire you to create delicious meals for the whole family.

‘Filled with simple and tasty dishes conjured from easy-to-find humble ingredients’ Crumbs
  • Published: 1 September 2015
  • ISBN: 9780224101042
  • Imprint: Square Peg
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $45.00
Categories:

About the authors

Caroline Craig

Caroline Craig graduated from NIDA in 1999 and has since worked solidly in theatre and television. It was her role as Tess Gallagher on BLUE HEELERS which made her a household name.

Sophie Missing

Sophie Missing is a writer and editor who started her career in publishing at Hodder & Stoughton and Penguin. She has written for the Guardian, the Observer, and MUNCHIES, and is the co-author of two previous cookbooks, The Little Book of Lunch and The Cornershop Cookbook. She lives in London.

portrait photo of Sophie Missing

Praise for The Cornershop Cookbook

From yam to Spam and greens to sardines, these recipes aim to show the wealth of culinary creativity to be unlocked from modest cornershop offerings

Bookseller

Both beautiful and useful

Sophie Morris, Independent

A great book: delicious recipes, beautifully written – it will make your weeknights much tastier

Itamar Srulovich and Sarit Packer, Honey & Co.

So, so good – utterly do-able yet inventive

Rachel Roddy

100 excellent reasons not to go to the supermarket: I absolutely love this book

Felicity Cloake

Discover overlooked ingredients and learn new ways with everyday staples to create deliciously simple meals.

Bristol Post

The Cornershop Cookbook is a great little book, and one that I think I’ll refer to frequently on rushed weekday evenings

Victoria Stewart, Evening Standard

At last- for those of us who live in the land of the urban cornershop, a collection of recipes that use all the stuff (weird foreign tins, dusty broccoli) you can buy round the corner

Kate Saunders, Saga Magazine

The Cornershop Cookbook… will inspire a newfound love for weeknight corner shopping and cooking

Western Daily Press

Filled with simple and tasty dishes conjured from easy-to-find, humble ingredients

Crumbs

This little gem of a cookbook [is]… a veritable masterclass in amazing dishes you can make from your cornershop

Women's Health

When the rest of us see resignation in a tin can, they see a feast in the offing...Inspirational

Dale Berning Sawa, Guardian

Quirky genius... An abundance of solid, inventive recipes made from easily obtained ingredients

Lisa Markwell, Independent

In reality, we often have to make do with whatever we can forage from Londis on the way back from work, and The Cornershop Cookbook understands that. Hallelujah!

Alex, A Little Bird

When the rest of us see resignation in a tin can, they see a feast in the offing...Inspirational

Dale Berning Sawa, Guardian