Celebrating its 100th birthday in style, 2011, marks the centenary of Long
The book includes 45 different cheese-based recipes and Tom Aikens has personally created ten. Aikens told us about his love of cheese and in particular British produced cheese and said ‘it’s no surprise that cheese is a regular feature in my menus!”
Launching the book at his restaurant, Tom’s Kitchen at Somerset House, Aikens demonstrated the Cotsworld double Gloucester cheese straws samples floating around the room, such as red Leicester macaroni cheese, as well as broccoli and blue Stilton soup which was a bigger hit with the attendees.
On leaving the book launch everyone was given
Full of an eclectic mix of recipes and some interesting cheese-related reading too, Cooking Creatively with Cheese is certainly original, buyers might be a bit disappointed by Mr Aikens’ iimited recipe contribution though, but in his defence the ones he has created are all suitably cheesy. At just over 100 pages in length it is not the largest book on cooking ever written, and not particularly kitchen friendly either, almost impossible to keep the page you need open without superhuman force.
On sale now, Cooking Creatively with Cheese costs £7.95 and is available to buy on Amazon.
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