Lateral Cooking

It is hard to convey just what a staggering achievement Lateral Cooking is. Segnit is truly a one-woman Larousse. Only the scope is so much wider and deeper: this book covers continents! … I can lose myself in it any time, from any page, and you could cook from it over a whole lifetime, and still be learning

It is hard to convey just what a staggering achievement Lateral Cooking is. Segnit is truly a one-woman Larousse. Only the scope is so much wider and deeper: this book covers continents! … I can lose myself in it any time, from any page, and you could cook from it over a whole lifetime, and still be learning

The cookbooks that teach you the most are the rare ones, experimental or not, that are so well written that you find yourself reading them greedily on a perpetual loop. Lateral Cooking is one of them

A rigorous, nuts-and-bolts bible of a book, which works from the premise that there are base recipes from which all others can be built... It’s elegantly designed and extremely broad

My most anticipated book of the year

Witty, playful and conversational

This year’s star book ... It’s a cracker: a hefty volume with a simple premise... Segnit has an appealing authorial voice: funny, friendly and authoritative

Segnit is a brilliantly clever cook who sometimes seems to have eaten every great dish in the world, but the real joy is her exuberant voice , which feels like listening to a witty friend

Book of the decade , if you ask me... Every cook should have it

Knowledgeable and humorous, with a focus on flavour and technique, this cookbook is informative, useful and sure to become a kitchen bible to many

In a year that’s been a bonanza for cookbooks, this is the one I’d put top of my list

Want to graduate from a rigid recipe-follower to an instinctive, ingredient-led cook? Niki Segnit shows you how

What makes this book really special, just like The Flavour Thesaurus , aside from Niki’s impressive expertise, is her humour and personality. It’s a joy to read

A textbook you'll turn to for all your culinary core techniques and queries

It’s a book you’ll buy not so much for the recipes, though there are plenty, but the insights it will give you on how the whole process of cooking works... a cracking read

One of the most exciting cookery books I've read this year

Niki Segnit is back with a new cookbook to break the mould (again)

It is an absolute triumph , want to take a week off work to read it and cook as I go... cannot recommend enough! If you loved The Flavour Thesaurus , this is basically Christmas

Lateral Cooking is a beautifully simple book that just makes sense . I’m hooked again

Niki Segnit's Lateral Cooking is a spectacularly good cookbook . If it were a novel, it'd be a shoo-in for the Booker

It’s a clever idea... a fabulous read

Gorgeous, informative book

This should be alongside The Silver Spoon and Le Repertoire , that's where it's going on my shelf

A collection of ideas and inspiration – my kind of thinking

Shows, more effectively than any other cookery writer to date, how one thing in the kitchen leads to another

A cookbook full of open-ended recipes

An enjoyable read

This isn’t a reference book, it’s an engrossing read for foodies

A cooking bible ... a must-have in every kitchen, I’m blown away!

From the author of The Flavour Thesaurus comes this collection of recipes arranged on a continuum, meaning simple tweaks give you a whole new dish

It’s her humour, stories and thoughtful research that make this much more than simply a cookbook

It's fascinating and engrossing. It makes you want to cook more - and there can be no higher compliment

A wonderfully simple idea... but It’s her humour, stories and thoughtful research that make this much more than simply a cookbook

Niki Segnit’s first book, The Flavour Thesaurus , won the André Simon Award for best food book, the Guild of Food Writers Award for best first book, and was shortlisted for the Galaxy National Book Awards. It has been translated into thirteen languages. On BBC Radio 4, she has contributed to The Food Programme , Woman’s Hour and Word of Mouth , and her columns, features and reviews have appeared in the Guardian , the Observer, The Times, The Times Literary Supplement, The Sunday Times and Prospect magazine. She lives in London with her husband and two children.