The Flavour Thesaurus: More Flavours
By Niki Segnit
Bloomsbury £20
There are cookery writers, recipe-writers and culinary historians. And then there's Niki Segnit. She's the real thing – a genuine, gold-plated sui generis (she's earned herself the Latin).
Her first Flavour Thesaurus – the new one, More Flavours, is plant-led – has already been translated into heaven knows how many languages. Considering our island nation's lingering reputation for terrible cooking, that's quite a compliment.
The idea
