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  • Published: 16 January 2014
  • ISBN: 9781448161041
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208
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The Little Book of Lunch



Delicious and simple recipes for the working person’s packed lunchbox.


New to making your lunch at home? Staring into your fridge in despair?

The Little Book of Lunch
is for you!

Filled with delicious and simple recipes, The Little Book of Lunch has clever approaches to classics making them easy for working from home, meals that taste delicious at room temperature, quickly assembled dishes for when you barely have five minutes and recipes for when the cupboards are bare. It includes:

-Wholesome and healthy salads like tabouleh
-Indulgent and decadent dining like grilled halloumi, vegetable and avocado couscous
-Sandwiches for when you are chained to your desk like guacamole and tomato salsa on rye
-Store-cupboard snacks like spicy lentil and coconut soup
-Sweet treats to brighten up the day like salted caramel brownies

‘Packed full of food you can really get excited by, it's a much-needed rallying call to reclaim the lunch hour!’ Felicity Cloake

  • Published: 16 January 2014
  • ISBN: 9781448161041
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208
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.

Praise for The Little Book of Lunch

A rallying cry to the homemade midday meal, packed with recipes and ideas that promise to transform working life

Susannah Butter, Evening Standard

Packed full of food you can really get excited by, it's a much-needed rallying call to reclaim the lunch hour!

Felicity Cloake

This book will do more for happiness in the British Workplace than three extra Bank Holidays. A brilliant and inventive set of recipes, menus and shopping lists that will transform your lunchtimes.

Tim Hayward

The move towards packed lunches is happening more and more, and one book that we think will inspire a few extra converts is this one ... [an] inspiring little book

A Little Bird

A little book of clever ideas for the daily lunchbox

Nigel Slater, Observer Food Monthly

This book is perfect. Not only that, it is beautifully presented, fun, delightful, and full to capacity of ways to make a packed lunch memorable

UK Press Syndication

Guaranteed to inject some joy into your lunchtime routine and save money at the same time

Bristol Post

Give a copy of the book to everyone in your team and you'll never go hungry at work

Emma Sturgess, Metro

The only problem with this is the lunches look too good in the pictures

Justine Crow, Families South East

With a combination of sweet and savoury ideas, it is an essential lunchtime accessory that won’t leave you short on ideas anytime soon

Glam UK

If you are stuck in a cheese toastie rut, The Little Book of Lunch…is full of inspiration under sensible chapter headings, such as: "When you are chained to your desk" and "Bribing colleagues with sweet treats"

Laura Freeman, Spectator