I love food books and I couldn’t wait to take a look at this wonderful book. *Feast Your Eyes On Food by Laura Gladwin is a stunning compendium that celebrates the rich variety of over 1,000 delicious things to eat. Laura Gladwin is a former chef turned writer and editor specialising in food and drink, with sumptuous illustrations by Zoë Barker.
Discover how cheese is made and find out what it is about onions that make you cry as well as a host of other surprising facts you didn’t know about food, from pasta and cakes to fruits and vegetables. Each spread features a different ingredient or food type, with a short introduction about its origins, and a single fact about each variety. This book is so beautifully presented it will make readers want to eat it up making it a perfect gift for foodie families and inquisitive minds.
Book Description
Learn how flour and water were revolutionised as you pore over different pasta and noodle shapes, discover how cheese is made, find out why onions make you cry and marvel at nature’s ingenuity as you take a bite from eighteen varieties of apples and pears. Taking inspiration from a vintage cookery compendium, this visual guide offers families a way of celebrating and experiencing food from all around the world from the comfort of a chair, with interesting, quirky facts about each inclusion. Each spread features a different ingredient or food type, with a short introduction about the origins, and a single fact about each variety.
Publishing the 2nd September 2021
ISBN: 9781913520229
£20 | Hardback | 96pp | ages 7+
What We Thought
We absolutely adore this encyclopedia. The information Feast Your Eyes On Food contains is priceless for young children and adults alike. It’s rich with food knowledge and recipe ideas for the whole family. The illustrations really bring this to life. My daughter who is an avid reader at 5 years old really enjoys flicking through the pages and learning about the different yummy foods.
It’s going to be a firm favourite in our kitchen for many years to come!
Author/Illustrator
Laura Gladwin trained at Leith’s School of Food and Wine before working as a freelance chef. She then spent five years at one of London’s biggest party design companies, where she devised spectacular cocktail lists for more than 500 events. She now works as a writer and editor specializing in food and drink, writing for the Good Food Guide and editing high-profile cookery books for chefs including Ferran Adrià, René Redzepi, and Heston Blumenthal.
Zoe Barker is an illustrator gifted with powers of visual trickery, using watercolour washes and intricately textured graphite to create portraits, still-lifes, and character designs that convey impressive visual depth. She lives in London where her clients include Soho House, Ralph Lauren, and Liberty of London.
Where Can I Buy Feast Your Eyes On Food?
Available to buy from *Amazon and all good book stockists.
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Sounds fantastic
Certainly will be a FEAST for the girls – sounds a beauty