Bitter

Bitterness, often cited as an acquired taste, can elevate your cooking and add complexity and depth to a dish. Bringing together flavors from around the world in both sweet and savory dishes, this cookbook shows you how to add bitter ingredients to enhance the depth and flavor of your food.

Publisher Marketing: Alexina Anatole is a chef, TV presenter, and writer based in London. After reaching the final of UK MasterChef in 2021, she made a brave career change from the trading floor to the food world. Anatole also writes Small Wins, a Substack newsletter that enhances your cooking and your life in small, manageable ways. She has been featured on BBC One's Saturday Kitchen, Channel 4's Sunday Brunch, and BBC Radio 4's The Food Programme. She also runs sold-out events, including Sel, London's most intimate supper club, and Cocoa POP, a chocolate-themed pop-up with chocolatier Octavia Lamb. Alexina is of mixed heritage: the granddaughter of chicken farmers from Cambridgeshire, England, and Saint Lucian grandparents who arrived in London during the Windrush era. Part of a series on the five tastes, Sweet is her second book--her first book, Bitter , was published in 2024. Review Quotes : "Bitterness is the most undesirable of attributes, except when it comes to food... I gravitated greedily towards Alexina Anatole's book... It is the attribute of bitterness that makes people habitually describe foods that possess it as 'an acquired taste', and while this is certainly a book that rewards those of us who have acquired that most enthusiastically already, it also gives a multiplicity of entry points for those who perhaps are yet to be convinced."--Nigella Lawson Review Quotes : "A gem of a cookbook ... delightful"--Rukmini Iyer Review Quotes : "Her ability to take very strong, bitter, sharp flavors and marry them together with majesty is incredible"--John Torode Review Quotes : "Stunning and inventive recipes inspired by cuisines from around the world to make you fall in love with bitterness!"--Ixta Belfrage Review Quotes : "UK MasterChef contestant Anatole debuts with an elegant and enthusiastic ode to a flavor profile that is often "picked last for the team... Anatole's deep dive into bitterness is wonderfully thorough [and] ... the result is an enticing, clever collection that should rehabilitate the reputation of bitter food."--Publishers Weekly Review Quotes : "Any foodie seeking nuance and education about bitter ingredients will have fun exploring Anatole's recipes, many of which sound like they could be served at a five-star restaurant but which are all solidly achievable at home ... Her point is well received for creative cooks: bitter foods (think beer, citrus, tahini, licorice) can be stars in the kitchen too."--Booklist Publisher Marketing : Embrace the beauty of bitter flavors.

Format: Hardcover | Pages: 240 | Publication Date: 2025-07-08