The Thrifty Cookbook: 476 ways to eat well with leftovers

Kate Colquhoun

Jun 2012 · A&C Black

About this ebook

In the UK we throw away 6.7 million tonnes of food a year - that's a third of all the food we buy, and a fifth of our total domestic waste. And about half of it could be eaten.
Kate Colquhoun shows how to make your food go much, much further than you thought possible. On her mission to use up leftovers, wrinkly fruit and past-it veg, she includes modern, tasty recipes for:
Bakes
Casseroles
Chutneys
Crumbles
Curries
Fishcakes
Gratins
Marinades
Meatballs
Milkshakes
Pies Soups
Stews
Stir-fries
And more!

About the author

Kate Colquhoun is the author of A Thing in Disguise: The Visionary Life of Joseph Paxton, which was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, and of Taste: A Biography of British Food. She reviews regularly for the Daily Telegraph and has written for The Times, the Financial Times, BBC History Magazine, Saga Magazine, The (RHS) Garden and Country Life Magazine. She lives in London.