Chefs at Home: 54 chefs share their lockdown recipes in aid of Hospitality Action

As a keen home cook as soon as I heard this book was coming out I immediately put in a pre-order and patiently waited for what I knew would be a great book, and upon arrival it didn't disappoint.Chefs at Home is a collaboration from 54 of the UK's best chefs, each contributing two recipes each across three sections: breakfast & lunch, dinner, and dessert & bakes. If you are into your cooking you will no doubt recognise many of the chefs and you might worry that with the number of Michelin Stars they have between them that this book would risk being stuffy and pretentious, rest assured this is not the case. Recipes are, on the whole, very approachable, most requiring a reasonable amount of ingredients (no real shopping-list recipes) many of which you will probably have knocking around your cupboards. There is something for everyone with a real mix of cuisines, ingredients and techniques. While they differ in style these dishes share a clear overarching theme, that is feel-good home cooking and boy do we all need some of this after 2020.Aside from the recipes themselves I quite like the structure of the book, the photography is great and they include illustrations for many of the dishes that haven't been photographed. The book also includes a section at the back which features a profile for each of the chefs, and also serves as somewhat of an index as it gives you the page numbers of their recipes which I thought was a nice touch.It's important to point out the reason this book exists. The collaboration of these 54 chefs was for the purpose of supporting Hospitality Action, a charity that has been supporting the hospitality industry in the UK for nearly 200 years. They help hospitality workers, past and present, who are suffering with physical, mental and financial problems. With the hospitality industry being one of the hardest hit from the pandemic, it's a great cause that needs support as much as ever. All royalties are donated to Hospitality Action.On top of supporting a great cause this is also a great product. Chefs at Home is one of those books that will make you hungry. It will inspire you to get in the kitchen and your biggest challenge will be deciding what recipe to cook.If you found my review helpful please let me know by hitting the button below. Cheers

It’s been the weirdest year imaginable, 2020, that’s going to stick with us for a while! And during that time, we’ve all - OK many of us - managed to find our cookery skills. Let’s face it, we haven’t been able to go out much. From banana bread, to sourdough, cheesecake to beef stew, pasta to risotto and a hundred other dishes, but what’s really interesting to is see what Chefs cook at home, what’s their little guilty pleasure, what would they recommend us to cook. This book lifts the lid off just that. A whole bunch of legendary and celebrity styled chefs, supporting the hospitality industry, and allowing us a glimpse in to their lives. There’s a load of recipes from a humble bacon and egg bun (thanks Angela!) to an extraordinary fish finger sandwich with monster munch (thank Tom!) and a ton of other interesting dishes. And what I like, is that by buying this book, I’m helping to support an industry we all love to use so often, and one that gives us so much pleasure, but one that has suffered so much during the pandemic. I’m going to treasure this book, and in years to come I’m never going to forget why I bought it.

Fantastic book with simple easy to use and enjoyable recipes. I love the fact that these recipes are not just written by chefs who are at the top of their game but are actually used by them to feed their own families. Pound for pound this has got to be the best value cookbook on the market today. It also has the added bonus of helping Hospitality Action a fantastic charity that’s sole aim is to help people in our hospitality industry right now when they need help the most..I am also going to use it to introduce my two boys to cooking their own from scratch as the recipes are put together so well and they actually work. Thank you Chefs and thank you Hospitality Action for caring and sharing..

Impressed that the recipes are something non-cheffy people can make.The cover along with a couple of pages cracked away a bit from the rest of the book leaving a small gap and could detach completely over time. No rough treatment just an audible crack whilst browsing through the book.

Very happy to have received this fab new book.It’s an excellent read, full of really inspiring recipes from some of the nations best Chefs - including local lad Gary Usher from Elite Bistros Sticky Walnut.Highly recommended for the meal ideas, obviously. But more than that, it’s for a great cause.We’ve all missed the Hospitality sector during the COVID crisis. But not half as much as they’ve missing their customers.All royalties from this great read go to Hospitality Action who do some much needed work for people who work in the hotels, bars and restaurants we all love to frequent.Here’s hoping we can all support the hospitality sector in the way we all do best very soon.

As a rule, I don’t do desserts. And then I tasted the custard tart at Hispi and it opened a full-on Pandora’s Box of sweet treats.When I saw that this book included the recipe, I knew I had to buy it, even if I may never make it as the real thing is perfection (although the recipe is extremely easy to follow).But I’ll be honest with you, when it arrived, and I started to scramble through its pages to find my golden ticket, I kept having to stop, salivate and dream as page after page I found amazing recipes (eg Simon Rimmer’s gnocchi with mushroom ragu) that I want to cook and that distracted me from my prize.I’m one of those people who buys cookery books, will may be do 2 or 3 recipes, and then put it away and forget that I’ve got it. I’ve already done 3 recipes and I know that this book, just like an everlasting gobstopper, will have me coming back to salivate over for years to come.