Big Has HOME: Recipes from North London to North Cyprus
Big Has HOME: Recipes from North London to North Cyprus
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Author(s): Semay, Hasan
ISBN No.: 9781911682356
Pages: 176
Year: 202208
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 36.06
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

"This book is just about food. Nothing flashy, no expensive equipment and gizmos. It's entirely about flavours and understanding. Food in its entirety is more than about filling your stomach; it's about stories, history, and those shared moments." - Hasan Semay Grounded and honest (and a little bit sweary), Hasan Semay (a.ka. Big Has) is a bright and talented North-London based chef and YouTube presenter. Having dropped out of school and tried his hand at odd jobs from plumbing to security, Has was accepted onto the prestigious Jamie Oliver "15" programme in 2011 which unearthed a true passion and flair for cooking.


HOME is his debut cookbook and a celebration of the dishes, the places and the people that have made him who he is today. Fans of Hasan's Instagram page and enormously popular YouTube series 'Sunday Sessions' will recognise his ability to make incredible restaurant-quality food available to the masses, teaching his viewers how to appreciate ingredients and understand cooking not through dull step-by-step methods but by connecting more intuitively with the process. In this debut cookbook, Has takes those principles to the next level talking you through the stages of lighting a BBQ and how to prepare a variety of dishes from small plates to Turkish Cypriot classics as well as meat and fish straight off the grill. His food is beautiful and robust with familiar Mediterranean influences from his Cypriot heritage as well as from his time working in professional kitchens across London - think grilled butter-milk chicken thighs with chermoula, flame-licked steak and salsa verde, marinated lamb chops with salsa rossa, all countered by neat folds of glistening home-made pasta and the occasional jaw-dropping dessert. Now don't think this means flashy, fiddly food - this is real food, treated with respect and cooked right - no tablecloths or fancy china, just your friends, round the BBQ proper Sunday session style, because food is a celebration of coming together. Peppered with anecdotes about working in professional kitchens and the characters and inspiration behind his food, HOME is a refreshing and accessible cookbook from a uniquely bold chef. Gold title * Has has a highly-engaged and growing platform; you can follow him at @BigHas on Instagram. * Has hosts YouTube series, Big Has Sunday Sessions, and is a regular contributor to Pitt Magazine, a food magazine dedicated grilling and BBQ.


* His recipes have appeared in The Guardian Feast and Time Out. He is well supported and loved by many in the food industry including Jamie Oliver, Gennaro Contaldo, Ravneet Gill and Alex Jackson (of Pavilion). Competition: Poppy Cooks;MOB 6;MEZCLA;Chasing Smoke;Live Fire;Meliz's Kitchen;One;Big Zuu's Big Eats;Test Kitchen;Persiana;Sirocco;Motherland;Seared. Poppy O'Toole; Ixta Belfrage;Honey & Co;Helen Graves;Meliz Berg;Jamie Oliver;Big Zuu;MOB;Ottolenghi;Sabrina Ghayour;Melissa Thompson;Julius Roberts;Sophie Wyburd.


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